Faculty profile

The Arts Faculty is organised into seven departments: art history; classical studies; English; history (incorporating history of science, technology and medicine); music; philosophy; and religious studies. It also includes the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and an inter-faculty research centre, The International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR). The Head of the Faculty is the Dean; currently this is Professor David Rowland.

We have around 200 centrally and regionally based staff, comprising academics, support staff and full-time research students. In addition, around 1,000 associate lecturers act as personal tutors to our students. Follow this link if you would like to find out how to become an associate lecturer.

Any current vacancies in the Faculty will be listed on the University’s job opportunties website. Follow this link for information about the special character of academic work in The Open University.

Our teaching

We present some sixty undergraduate and postgraduate courses covering a wide range of arts subjects. Currently more than 33,000 students are registered on Arts courses. Compared to undergraduate students across the whole University, Arts has a higher rate of course completion and receives reports of higher satisfaction and student interest ratings too.

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