Prof Gini Harrison, from The Open University's School of Psychology and Counselling, has been awarded £110k from Maggie's to help develop a new digital platform that connects people living with oncogene-driven lung cancer to trusted information and support.

Dr Melisa Porter, from The Open University's School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, has secured £94,578 from the Economic and Social Research Council through the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

Dr Angelo Salatino, from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute , has secured £308,702 (£186,028 to the OU) in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for a project that aims to identify potentially transformative research earlier and more effectively.

Researchers from AstrobiologyOU have uncovered new insights into how microscopic life survives in Lake Karum, Ethiopia, one of the world's most extreme saline environments.