Open University researchers are working with Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity on the future research agenda for palliative and end of life care.

In a significant boost to youth mental health initiatives, Verbal, a charity based in Londonderry and working across the island of Ireland, dedicated to improving wellbeing through storytelling, has secured £25k funding from the Open Societal Challenges grant for their innovative project, "Beyond ‘Liking’ or ‘Not Liking’: Co-Created Stories for Social Media Resilience."

Suffolk Mind, an independent mental health charity, has been awarded an Open Societal Challenges (OSC) funding grant to undertake a new research project which aims to address low response rates and the under-representation of mental health service users in research and evaluation activities.

Open University researchers have produced new evidence which suggests that disadvantaged and vulnerable young people benefit from supported nature-focused activities.