Open University

The Milton Keynes-based institution is sending a device to study water on the lunar surface as part of the Peregrine Mission One launch.

Marie Thompson, the academic who wrote the course, said Dolly Parton was "a very valuable musician and she deserves to be on a university curriculum".

The songs of the US singer songwriter will be explored in a new six-week course being offered by the Milton Keynes-based university.