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At the recent Shaping the future: OU Research showcase, The Open University (OU) awarded an ambitious new project funded by the Open Societal Challenges (OSC) platform.

The National Trust’s "Tools to Realise Socio-Economic Benefits from Floodplains Under Restoration" (TREASURE) project has won one of The Open University’s Open Societal Challenges (OSC) Challenge Us! competition funding awards for 2024.

The Open University’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), including Professor Stephen Serjeant, is taking part in a major new EU-funded initiative aimed at advancing multimessenger astrophysics.

“Research is just the first step. It’s all about collaboration and applying what we find to see real benefits unfolding in society”, that is how The Open University is approaching research according to Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation.

In her inaugural lecture, on 26 September 2024, Naomi Moller, Professor in Psychology and Psychotherapy in the School of Psychology and Counselling in The Open University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, talked about her research into relationships.

A groundbreaking new report has just been released, highlighting the often-overlooked issue of early pregnancy endings as a workplace issue.

An OU academic has been shortlisted in this year’s Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2024 for research into the gender pension gap.

UK charities and Milton Keynes businesses have challenged The Open University to collaborate with them to solve some of society’s most pressing issues.

Professor Advaith Siddharthan's new project, 'Feeling the Untouchable: Haptic touch experiences for naturalistic learning' has just received a £922,000 grant through round one of UKRI’s highly competitive cross-council responsive mode scheme to explore how children could experience and learn about the natural world through touch.