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In a transformative leap for the century-old science of palynology - the study of pollen - The Open University is helping in/contributing to a global effort to digitise and preserve one of the world’s most important botanical collections.

This month’s research image of the month (July 2025) encapsulates Carys Jennings' research on how children experience happiness, particularly in a school setting.

The Open University has been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to train postgraduate researchers in creative economy and arts and humanities.

An Open University academic has been awarded for outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of digital education.

The Open University has been awarded £560,000 by UK Research and Innovation to lead a pioneering research project that interrogates the future of university governance in a neoliberalised higher education landscape.

The Open University has launched a new practical toolkit aimed at helping policymakers, campaigners, and researchers engage some of the UK’s most politically disengaged communities.

As we approach 2030, the clock is ticking on the world’s promise to deliver Sustainable Development Goal 4: inclusive, equitable, and quality education for all. Yet for many educators and policymakers, global education still feels like an abstract or secondary concern - something for others, somewhere else.

This question was at the heart of the Global Ministerial Dialogue on Science Diplomacy, held on 13 March 2025 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

This month’s research image of the month (June 2025) encapsulates Claude Nsobya’s research on how communities are leading the way in managing flood risk through local knowledge and natural solutions.

In her inaugural lecture, on Thursday 12 June 2025, Professor Joan Simons, Head of School for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care in The Open University's Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, focused on how her experience as a burns nurse instigated a career long interest on improving the management of children’s pain in hospital.