News & articles

An OU researcher has been awarded over £1M to explore why the use of English as a teaching language in non-English-speaking European countries is increasing, despite students struggling to understand it.

Professor Jean Hartley has been recognised today (Thursday 23 April) with an international lifetime achievement award for her outstanding record of teaching, research and publication on public leadership and management, over more than two decades.

Research by an OU PhD student has highlighted the inequalities in access to the internet and digital technologies across the world, in particular in Western Kenya.

A project which will change the culture of software engineering is being led by an OU academic.

Pamela Rowden, a former PhD student at the OU, vetted Kepler-1649c, an Earth-size exoplanet, which has just been discovered.

Many of us have settled into a new routine of working from our homes to respect the “Stay at Home” Coronavirus guidance and report that the two worlds often merge.

OU researchers are using their citizen science platform, nQuire, to capture people’s experiences of the impact of COVID-19 on their lives.

New guidance on research ethics, promoting the development of best practice, which was led by an Open University academic, launches this week (8 April 2020).

Two academics who did their PhDs in planetary sciences at the OU, have been selected by NASA to be funded to advance their research.

A paper by OU researchers which questions the efficacy of pregnancy apps just as experts predict a baby boom, is published in the British Medical Journal Sexual & Reproductive Health this week (6 April 2020).