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In a world that feels increasingly serious and pressured, fun can seem like a guilty pleasure — something optional, even frivolous. But what if fun isn’t an add on at all? What if it’s essential?

A new publication introduces a transformative AI approach to studying dinosaur footprints, offering researchers (and enthusiasts!) an objective way to classify tracks and investigate the conditions in which dinosaurs lived.

Open Research Week will return from 16–20 March 2026, uniting Open University researchers and partners to explore how open practices drive engagement, innovation and societal benefit.

The businesses selected to receive funding from the Open Business Creators Fund for Women in Business (delivered by The Open University and sponsored by NatWest) have been announced.

A major state-wide literacy programme in Brazil is demonstrating how Open University research is informing public policy at scale, following its high profile presentation at BETT London 2026 by São Paulo’s Secretary of Education, Renato Feder.

The Open University is proud to announce its inclusion in the National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) consortium as part of NBIC’s sixth accession round.

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life.

The Floodplain Meadows Partnership, led by The Open University, has been awarded a further three years of funding from the Foundation for the Third Millennium.

The government has recently released its national youth strategy, which promises better career advice for young people in England.

Dr Ilias Kounatidis, from the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship grant from the UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source.