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The OU has been ranked fifth out of 103 higher education institutions for overall postgraduate research student satisfaction in the national survey of research students.

‘Engaging with data ethics’ and ‘multisensory learning’ are two of the top 10 approaches to learning and teaching in this year’s Innovating Pedagogy report from The Open University.

An OU academic is to highlight the role of research in strengthening solidarity between people with different experiences when she speaks at the Tate Modern, London this week (Thursday 23 January 2020).

“Ethical veganism” has been ruled to be a philosophical belief in the UK in an employment tribunal. During a case brought by vegan Jordi Casamitjana, who claims he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports because of his ethical veganism, presiding judge Robin Postle ruled he was “satisfied overwhelmingly that ethical veganism does constitute a philosophical belief”.

The OU’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) has been awarded £100,000 from Springer Nature, a leading academic and educational publisher, to extend their collaboration in the field of scholarly analytics.

OU researchers have been awarded £19,500 to develop research into paediatric brain cancer.

The discovery of six new planets could hold the key to unlocking the geology of the rocky planets outside the Earth’s Solar System.

A project which will expand the current global network of doctoral researchers worldwide has received £446,000 from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

OU academics have been awarded £202,000 from Milton Keynes Council to develop Milton Keynes further as a smart city.

OU academics have received £316,000 from the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme for a new research project which will enable groups who are at risk of exclusion from the Arts to participate.