Professor Richard Holliman

Biography

"I am Professor of Engaged Research at the Open University (OU). I am currently leading the OU's RCUK-funded School-University Partnership, 'Engaging opportunities', working with the Denbigh Teaching School Alliance in Milton Keynes. I have studied and worked at the Open University since the mid-1990s. I completed my PhD in the Department of Sociology (with support from the Institute of Educational Technology), where I explored media representations of the sciences. I moved across the campus in 2000 to work in what was then the Faculty of Science. Now based in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences in the the Faculty of Science, Techonology, Engineering and Mathematics, I have contributed to a number of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching projects that explore aspects of the relationship between the sciences and publics. Most recently, I have worked on S350 Evaluating Contemporary Science."

Research Interest

My research interests lie in exploring the ways that academic research is communicated via a range of media and genres, and how ideas about (upstream) public engagement with research may be shifting and extending social practices.