In the media
Open Book’s impact has been nationally recognised: we received the Guardian University Award for student diversity in 2016.
Primary page content
2024 - Open Stage is Open to All
https://southlondon.co.uk/area/lewisham/open-stage-is-open-to-all/
2022 - Seeking answers to today’s big questions
https://www.francescorner.com/seeking-answers-to-todays-big-questions/
2019 -Leaders with lived experience: Joe Baden, founder and director, Open Book
2016 - Open Book’s Joe Baden appointed OBE
https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/joe-baden-obe/
2016 – Where recovery can be an Open Book
https://kairoscommunity.org.uk/recovery-open-book/
2015 – Spitalfields Life
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/17/joe-baden-open-book/
2008 - Open Book: Getting ex-offenders into higher education
https://www.fenews.co.uk/resources/archive/open-book/
2008 - A pioneer in the field of widening participation was in Cambridge last week to give a seminar at Lucy Cavendish College
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/the-therapeutic-value-of-education-widening-participation-in-action
2007 – Power of education unleashed through UCU's first Life Changer grants
2007 – Art & Power: Joe Baden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnZ6LiW6cFc
2007 - Life changers tell government how it is
https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/2828/Life-changers-tell-government-how-it-is
2007 - Breaking into university
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/mar/06/accesstouniversity.ukcrime
2005 - Go to jail - then get a degree
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/go-to-jail-then-get-a-degree-517600.html
2004 – Been there, done that
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/jun/29/careers.highereducation2