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The UK government wants to shake up pensions – but it can’t guarantee that ‘megafunds’ will want to invest in Britain

The UK chancellor Rachel Reeves talks a lot about achieving better growth. And the latest figure – economic expansion in the last quarter of just 0.1% – suggests plenty of room for improvement.

20th November 2024
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Launch of new toolkit to promote health across generations

Open University researchers are launching a toolkit (21 November 2024) which will help people across generations to keep healthy together.

19th November 2024
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Thames Life wins grant for community infrastructure initiative

Thames Life, a community development charity based in Barking and Dagenham, has secured a grant from The Open University’s Open Societal Challenges fund to tackle urgent social infrastructure needs within the borough.

13th November 2024
Planets in the solar system

A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the exoplanets we’ve already detected: their sizes, what they’re made of and whether they have atmospheres.

12th November 2024
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How the gender pay gap evolves into a gender pension gap

European Equal Pay Day is the date when women – symbolically at least – start working for free because of the gender pay gap. This gap, of about a month and half of salary per year between men and women, means that from November 15 2024 women will effectively stop earning while their male counterparts continue to get paid.

12th November 2024
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BPAS secures funding to explore AI chatbots to improve at-home abortion services

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has received funding to launch a project aimed at improving the experience of at-home medical abortion through the integration of AI chatbots.

7th November 2024
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Launch of first Open Access book by OU Institutional Open Access Book Fund

The Open University (OU) has just released its first Open Access research book as part of an OU venture to pilot an Open Access Book Fund.

7th November 2024
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Saferworld charity awarded OSC funding for national security research

Saferworld, a charity dedicated to creating safer communities by preventing armed violence, has secured funding for an ambitious research project aimed at improving the transparency and accountability of UK national security policy.

31st October 2024
Supermarket chilled food cabinet filled with bottles of milk

How a Trump election win could hit the US food industry and leave millions of Americans hungry

As the US presidential election inches closer, a recent survey found that the economy is the top issue for voters, and many are also concerned about healthcare, foreign policy and inequality. Amid all the noise about these key issues however, food has received only marginal coverage in the campaigning despite the country’s high cost of living.

29th October 2024
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Including whom? Practices and consequences of inclusion and diversity

In her inaugural lecture, on 24 October 2024, Cinzia Priola, Professor of Work and Organisation Studies in The Open University's Faculty of Business & Law, explored her research on inclusion, diversity and inequalities in the workplace and social lives.

24th October 2024

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Decolonial dreams: the unmarked scholar reimagines the purpose of post-16 education

In her inaugural lecture, on Thursday 3 April 2025, Carol Azumah Dennis, Professor of Education, Policy and Practice in The Open University’s Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, looked at decolonising education, offering a manifesto which envisions an alternative vision of what the sector might be.

3rd April 2025
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