Previous Events

Thursday, October 29, 2026 - 10:00 to 10:45

Online via Microsoft Teams

Coordinated by the Institute of Educational Technology, the Future of Work & Professional Development research programme brings together colleagues from across The Open University who are interested in how AI, alongside other technological and societal changes, is shaping the ways we work, learn...

Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:15

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK6 7AA

This year’s OU Global Development Annual Lecture will be delivered by Naila Kabeer, Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics, a faculty member of their International Inequalities Institute, and on the government board of the Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity Abstrac...

Thursday, October 8, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK6 7AA

Jacqueline Baxter, Professor of Public Leadership and Management, OU Business School, Faculty of Business & Law.Professor Baxter’s inaugural lecture will examine the powerful yet often unseen ways organisational and sociological cultures shape learning, leadership, meaning and occupational ident...

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 16:30 to 18:00

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK6 7AA

Join Professors Rebecca L. Jones and Erica Borgstrom for two inaugural lectures exploring how we understand sexuality and ageing, death and grief. Through research, personal experience and creative reimagining, they challenge taken for granted assumptions and invite new ways of thinking about queer ...

Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online

We can shape better healthcare education, services and systems if we co-design.Dr Jitka VseteckovaThis workshop brings Dr Jitka Vseteckova and Professor Christothea Herodotou from The Open University together with Dr Chase Staras from Nottingham Trent University to explore how co-design and particip...

Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 10:00 to 11:00

Online

My research focuses on online citizen science ‘learning’ communities exploring how knowledge is created.Janice AnsineA panel discussion with Janice Ansine from The Open University, and Jane Bonnell, Rachael Leman, Paulina Pawlikowsa, Hannah Jenkins and Katie Woodhouse-Skinner from Nottingham Trent U...

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 11:00 to 11:45

Online

A session presented by Angelo Salatino, Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University.The session aims to explore “dark side” issues in Generative AI misuse.Angelo SalatinoAngelo SalatinoAbout this sessionThis session will address significant threats to scientific integrity...

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Online

Join us for this webinar to start our Open Research Week.Open Research ensures that new knowledge is co-produced to promote innovation and maximise impact.Theo PapaioannouTheo PapaioannouA panel discussion chaired by Professor Theo Papaioannou, The Open University's Open Research Lead, in discussion...

Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 16:00 to 17:00

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK6 7AA

The Open University is a longstanding hub for interdisciplinary, critical, and forward-looking research on international development. Celebrating its work and engaging with current debates, the University launched the OU Global Development Annual Lecture series in 2024.In the second annual lecture i...

Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 18:30 to 19:30

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK6 7AA

The inaugural lecture of Professor Joan Simons, Head of School for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care in the OU’s Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, will focus on how her experience as a burns nurse instigated a career long interest on improving the management of children&rsq...