The third issue of our department’s bi-annual research highlights newletter is now available. It features our amazing climb up the ladder of the UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise, our major grants, publications and event organisation in the past 6 months. It’s certainly a welcome reminder of how well we’re doing, a nice little morale booster in these financially troubled times (as if the funding cuts to the Equivalent and Lower level Qualifications students weren’t already bad enough for the Open University).