Our staff stories

What is especially rewarding for me is being able to bring some of my practical experience of financial markets into discussions with students.

I was attracted to the OU due to its reputation in online learning, its openness to all abilities and its longevity, roots and success in distance learning.

Supporting students achieve their potential and seeing them make the critical ‘learning connections’, linking theory with application.

What I cherish most about my time with the OU is the flexibility it offered, allowing me to pursue my degrees while maintaining a full-time job.

I became an AL because I vividly remember the wonderful student experience I benefitted from when studying my MBA with the OU. I really wanted to replicate my experience for others and when the OU were recruiting ALs for a postgraduate module called Leadership in Healthcare, I thought that was an area where I could translate both my professional experience in OD and leadership into a tutoring experience for this module, bringing practice and theory together.

Supporting the lifelong learning opportunities for students, which I have also experienced myself studying with The Open University.

I studied my master’s with the OU and when I wanted to develop my skills in online teaching and learning I applied to the OU because of its expertise in this area.

I am inspired by the values of the OU of being inclusive, innovative and responsive. These values are always at the heart of my interactions with our students.

Helping students to realise and reach their true potential.

I have always been very intrigued by the OU, its philosophy and the quality of its programmes. OU students are often living “real lives” while they study - and that’s an important business and life skill. I had never delivered an online course before, so when the opportunity arose, how could I resist?