OU research reveals that the needs of children whose parents or carers are seriously ill, are often neglected.
Academics from the Children's Research Centre at the OU worked with the charity Hope Support Services, which supports young people going through a family health crisis to produce a research report which highlighted the extent of the issue and made recommendations.
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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.