Previous Events

Monday, March 24, 2025 - 14:00 to 14:45

Online

Join us for the launch of our free course on Open Research. The principles of open research allow researchers from diverse fields and underrepresented groups to collaborate and extend each other’s work, and contribute to collective knowledge. Dr Camilla Elphick Dr Camilla Elphick Presen...

Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:00 to 10:45

Online

Join us for this keynote talk to start our Open Research Week. I believe the public has a right to access and use research knowledge, and that journalists and science communicators play a key role in empowering them to do so. However, open science initiatives often overlook the role of journalists...

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00

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

In her inaugural lecture, Anna De Liddo, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of Research at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, will point out that the biggest problems of our time call for collective action. But how do we make sense of complex problems and collect...

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 18:00 to 19:00

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

In her inaugural lecture, Cinzia Priola, Professor of Work and Organisation Studies in the OU’s Faculty of Business & Law, will explore her research on inclusion, diversity and inequalities in the workplace and social lives. Starting from her work on gender and sexuality, the talk will of...

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:00

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

The Open University (OU) is a longstanding hub for interdisciplinary, critical, and forward-looking research on international development. Celebrating its work and engaging with current debates, the University is launching the OU Global Development Annual Lecture series. In the first in the series,...

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00

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

In her inaugural lecture, Naomi Moller, Professor in Psychology and Psychotherapy in the School of Psychology and Counselling in the OU’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will talk about her research into relationships. She will ask how do (good) relationships contribute to our wellbeing?...

Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 18:00 to 19:00

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

In her inaugural lecture, Clara Mancini, Professor of Animal-Computer Interaction in the OU’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, will talk about her research journey in the field of Animal-Computer Interaction, shared with colleagues from across the world, to develop ...

Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00

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

In her inaugural lecture, Olga Jurasz, Professor of Law in the OU’s Faculty of Business and Law, will explore the uneasy relationship between violence, law and women’s lives using three examples: conflict-related sexual violence, online violence against women and the impact that withdraw...

Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 17:30 to 18:30

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

In her inaugural lecture, Rose Capdevila, Professor of Psychology at the OU, will discuss research around the gendering of power in three contexts: activism, the history of psychology and social media.Informed by intersectional feminist theory, the lecture will explore the relational constitution an...

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00

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

The way we engage with the natural world informs our scientific understandings and our worldviews. This is the premise of Advaith Siddharthan, Professor of Computer Science and Society’s inaugural lecture, in which he will discuss the impacts of modern culture's disassociation with nature...