research into my teaching at the OU. It is certainly a different place to be than other places I have worked at, and I am still getting to grips with the very complicated and welloiled OU teaching system! I am especially excited to work in an environment that takes a holistic approach to the ancient world, and where a lot of exciting research and teaching is going on as a result of not being hindered by traditional
disciplinary divides. My main task in the coming year is to captain one of the new MA courses on the body in the ancient world that will start in 2015. It is very exciting to be able to bring some of the cutting-edge and wide-ranging research of the department on the subject of the human body into a postgraduate teaching context. I am also working on a new course that will start in 2015 on the Roman Empire.
Being a member of the module teams for both the current MA (A867) and A330: Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds has meant that I now have a better idea of the OU courses and how everything is taught, and I have loved every minute of my teaching on these courses. I am delighted to be here and I hope to meet as many of you as possible at upcoming day schools and other OU community events!
A Quick Update on Various Projects
By Elton Barker
?Phase 2 of Hestia is under way and a brand new shiny website has been relaunched. You can even now follow the project on twitter: @hestiaproject. ?Up on the blog at the moment is a report on the first public event (in Southampton) and news of collaborations with various schools. ?Classics Confidential have a load more interviews up, with more and more people contributing as interviewers as well as interviewees.
Hestia2 is an innovative public engagement project based on the spatial reading and visualising of texts. Read more about the project at: http://hestia.open.ac.uk/hestia-phase-2/
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