Discovery of new planet “over three times more massive than the Earth”
OU researchers are part of an international team which has discovered a new planet orbiting the closest single star to the Sun. The paper, co-authored by three OU astronomers: Professor Carole Haswell, Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr John Barnes and former OU PhD student Dr Daniel Staab was published in Nature on Thursday 15 November.
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The leaders we need: Quiet influence and reflection in uncertain times
In her inaugural lecture on 8 October 2026, Jacqueline Baxter, Professor of Public Leadership and Management, Open University Business School, Faculty of Business & Law, examined the powerful yet often unseen ways organisational and sociological cultures shape learning, leadership, meaning and occupational identity in today’s workplaces.
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