Previous Events
Bringing Law to Life: A Conversation with Dr Neil Graffin in the role of Senior Lecturer in Law
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 19:00
Online - via Teams
Neil is a central academic in the Open University Faculty of Business and Law. Neil will talk about the ups and downs of a day in the life of a legal academic and the challenges of the profession. Neil will also discuss how to achieve a work-life balance, and emerging themes in the industry. Neil will consider how accessible the profession is to someone with a disability and to those with a care experienced background.
Bringing Law to Life: A conversation with Mel Holmes in the roles of Head /Manager of Legal Affairs and Information Compliance, Trainee Solicitor, Legal Researcher
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 17:00
Online - via Teams
Mel was Head of Legal Affairs and Information Compliance and will discuss the role of trainee solicitors and legal researchers. Mel will also consider the ups and downs of a day in the life of a solicitor, the challenges of the profession, including its pros and cons, whether there are age limits within the profession, what role diversity plays, how accessible the profession is to those with disabilities. Mel is also happy to answer questions about how law plays an interdisciplinary role across sectors.
Bringing Law to Life: A Conversation with Rachel Herron in the role of Associate General Council
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 17:00
Online - via Teams
Bringing Law to Life: Rachel Herron will talk about the ups and downs of a day in the life of In-House Counsel and the challenges (and opportunities) of working within the organisation that you advise. Rachel will also discuss topics such as key skills for In-house Counsel and some Legal “hot topics” that businesses are having to get to grips with.
Student Hub Live: Live Q&A: Ask the Student Support Team
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
In this session, Student Hub Live will talk to members of the Student Support Team (SST) from across the university. You’ll have the chance to ask questions and learn how they can support you.
Student Hub Live: Developing your essay writing (Intermediate)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
In the first session on essay writing, we looked at the basic structure of a good essay. In this one we will consider the skills needed to help you write excellent essays.
Student Hub Live: Critical thinking (Advanced)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
Communicating critical thinking depends on developing convincing arguments for your audience. By understanding how arguments are constructed you’ll be able to improve your own writing skills and build better and more logical patterns of thinking.
Student Hub Live: Introduction to essay writing (Beginners)
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
This is the first session on essay writing, and it follows on from our series on essay planning. Essays are often the first long piece of writing people have done and getting the content and structure right is a new skill to learn.
Student Hub Live: Creative problem-solving: techniques for success
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
This session will introduce the creative problem-solving cycle and the steps people take to solve problems. It will give you some ideas on how you can jumpstart your creativity by using tools to help each part of the cycle.
Student Hub Live: Critical thinking (Intermediate)
Monday, March 17, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
This workshop builds on the introductory session and we will take a deeper look at critical analysis using the five tiers of critical thinking.
Student Hub Live: Critical thinking (Beginners)
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
This is the first in a three-part series. Aimed at Access and Level 1 students or those who are new to critical thinking and writing, this workshop covers the basics.
Student Hub Live: Really understanding questions
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
Do you struggle knowing what your assignment question is asking? Or have you received feedback that you ‘didn’t answer the question given’? If so, this SHL workshop is for you!
Student Hub Live: Developing your essay planning (Intermediate)
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
This Student Hub Live essay planning session will look in detail at how to ensure each paragraph of your essay addresses a key element.
Student Hub Live: Introduction to essay planning (Beginners)
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
Writing great essays requires careful planning and this workshop will set you off on the right track. Aimed at access and Level 1 students, you will be guided through the planning process in easy steps.
Student Hub Live: Logical problem-solving
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
In this session, we will look at what logical problem-solving is and how it differs from creative problem-solving. We will consider the benefits of logical thinking and how to map your thoughts using decision trees.
Student Hub Live: Support and wellbeing for student carers
Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Online with Student Hub Live
This session will help carers find out what support might be available in their local area and what support is available from the OU, with a focus on wellbeing.
Student Hub Live: Tackling procrastination successfully
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online with Student Hub Live
In response to many requests, this new workshop takes a look at some of the reasons for procrastination. In it you will help develop a toolkit to streamline efficiency, making you as effective as possible.
Student Hub Live: Understanding graphical data
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
Graphs are a great way of sharing your data with an audience. In this session we’ll look at the most useful types of graphs and when and how you should use them.
Student Hub Live: Freshers Week: 'Furs'day night social
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 18:30 to 20:00
Online with Student Hub Live
This Student Hub Live social session is a chance for your brain to bounce back and recover and for you to have some relaxed, chill-out time.
Student Hub Live: Freshers week: Welcome to the OU
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Online with Student Hub Live
In this live video session for the new spring courses, we will give some ideas about what the OU (and SHL) is and where you can find help.
Student Hub Live: Managing high-intensity study
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30
Online with Student Hub Live
We know many wonderful OU students study 90 or 120 credits in a year, so this new workshop will help to explore some of the opportunities and challenges involved in studying with a high intensity.
Student Hub Live: Neurodiverse community: progressing effectively on your module
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:15
Online with Student Hub Live
Neurodiversity is all about difference. In this workshop we will look at some of those differences and consider how they can help (and hinder) effective progress.
Student Hub Live: Studying with disability: how to maintain enthusiasm and keep going
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:15
Online with Student Hub Live
In this Student Hub Live workshop, our student guest will share their experiences of studying with disability and how they stay focused, maintain enthusiasm and keep going
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