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Research conducted by the OU’s Faculty of Business & Law into online learning in English schools during COVID-19 has found that some innovations adopted have now become “business as usual”.

The Open University is part of a team developing a camera to image a “dynamically new” comet as part of a new mission.

Clapping for the NHS revealed the desire to express gratitude during the pandemic, and now researchers have created a virtual tool to enable people to say thank you more easily.

An OU-led research project which will develop digital tools that will make it possible for children to recreate textures found in nature has been funded.

A project which will use storytelling as a device to explore young people’s understanding of what it means to be included in education, has been funded.

A film about those who live among sand dunes is the subject of a film launched on World Sand Dune Day (25 June 2021).

The Open University has announced the winners of this year’s Postgraduate Research Poster Competition, which recognises PhD and Professional Doctorate students’ academic excellence and contribution to the University’s research community.

A hub that will offer psychological resources to organisations and employees to help them to manage the effects of COVID-19 has been launched.

An international team of researchers from the UK, Canada, Sweden and Australia have provided the first sample-based evidence, which they argue reflects the age of the Serenitatis Basin – one of the oldest craters on the Moon.

An OU academic has received funding to research the benefits of music for health.