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New £4.8M research initiative to combat economic inactivity in Northern Ireland

The Open University is involved in a £4.8 million research and policy action group, EPIC Futures NI, aimed at addressing economic inactivity in Northern Ireland.

19th March 2024
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The Open University asks UK charities to set challenges for the future

The Open University (OU) is pioneering a new approach to research by asking the UK charity sector to determine future challenges that we can collaboratively tackle.

14th March 2024
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The Open University asks businesses to set challenges for the future

The Open University (OU) is pioneering a new approach to research by asking businesses to determine future challenges that we can tackle.

8th March 2024
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Funding to analyse hundreds of thousands of images from Mars spacecraft

An OU researcher has received just over half a million pounds to use new Machine Learning tools to analyse huge image datasets collected by spacecraft orbiting Mars.

29th February 2024
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The Queen presents The Open University with Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its OpenSTEM Labs

The Open University was presented with a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education by Her Majesty The Queen this week (22 February 2024) at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace.

23rd February 2024
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New research funding to study incurable prostate cancer

One of The Open University's (OU) Open Societal Challenges projects which seeks new approaches to treat an incurable form of prostate cancer has received a Prostate Cancer UK Research Innovation Award.

22nd February 2024
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New PhD opportunity for analysis of Mars samples

OU researchers have been awarded just over £100,000 from UK Space Agency to provide training for the analysis of samples from Mars.

22nd February 2024
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How society ought to engage with nature, science and technology

In his inaugural lecture on 13 February 2024, Advaith Siddharthan, Professor of Computer Science and Society in the OU’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, discussed the impacts of modern culture's disassociation with nature and the potential for citizen science methodologies to redress these.

12th February 2024
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OU research calls for improved support around self-managed abortions

OU researchers are highlighting the importance of social connectedness for those undergoing self-managed abortions in the UK.

9th February 2024
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Sexism permeates every layer of the music industry – new report echoes what research has been saying for years

The landmark Misogyny in Music report from British MPs on the women and equalities committee, published on January 30, shines an unsettling light upon the gender discrimination, sexual harassment and abuse which is rampant across the music industry.

5th February 2024

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MK Community Foundation leads Open Societal Challenges grant to launch community innovation hub

Funding through the Open Societal Challenges programme at The Open University will support the MK Community Foundation in an ambitious project called Prototyping Community Innovation Hubs.

20th December 2024
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