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OU academics presented new platforms for universities to host their teaching online to representatives from African higher education institutions this week (21 July 2020).

With prospects of a COVID-19 vaccine looking up, attention is also turning to the problem of anti-vax ideas.

OU researchers have just received funding to identify the species, size and condition of trees in the UK through remote sensing techniques, with a view to ultimately applying these techniques from space.

The OU-led Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) has received additional emergency funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

As the COVID-19 pandemic puts the focus on literacy and numeracy in home-schooling, OU researchers have developed technologies to also help families learn about the natural environment.

A project which will join up conversations about future technologies between communities which tend to be marginalised and industry partners has just got funding.

The final report of the cross-party Youth Violence Commission (YVC), launched today (Monday 13 July 2020), calls for long-term investment in Violence Reduction Units to keep young people safe.

OU researchers have received funding to develop smart manufacturing processes for Space materials.

A new report out this week (6 July 2020), makes recommendations to improve the mental health of emergency responders.

An OU academic is leading the expert panel strand of a new research project to consider the impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed in the UK.