A farewell to Simon's inclusive research

Simon's research has always had a strong underlying social and inclusive agenda. The OU's publicly declared mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas: promoting educational opportunity and social justice. This could have been written with Simon in mind. He will be sorely missed by us all.

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