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In academia, the open access movement has often been framed as the answer to making research more inclusive and equitable. By removing paywalls, it offers the promise of greater accessibility to knowledge.

Open University researchers have joined forces with industry to develop a model to make it possible to provide personalised treatments for cancer.

US president Donald Trump’s claim that pregnant women should avoid paracetamol – a statement that is both harmful and not backed by the science – fits into a long and damaging tradition of blaming parents, especially mothers, for autism.

The Open University has secured a £124,955 Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to explore how young children engage with stories beyond words on the page.

As women’s sport surges on the global stage, hosts England have lit up the Women’s Rugby World Cup. But the tackles, speed and power fans see on the field are only part of the story.

A new paper by Open University PhD researcher Elaine Hooton is shining a spotlight on one of nature’s most overlooked elements — geodiversity — and calling for a shift in how we talk about the non-living foundations of our planet.

The Open University has been awarded a prestigious £1.17 million Future Leaders Fellowship from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to lead groundbreaking research into extremal structures in graphs.

The Open University has been awarded funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Economic and Social Research Council to support cutting-edge research on refugee protection and integration.

This month’s research image of the month (September 2025) captures Dr Katerina Alexiou’s research, which brings communities, local organisations, and practitioners together to share resources, build partnerships, and co-design projects or ventures that strengthen places and improve people’s lives.

The Open University’s PolicyWISE initiative is at the forefront of shaping the UK’s evolving model of territorial governance, with Director Dewi Knight co-authoring a new landmark report on the Council of the Nations and Regions – a flagship innovation of the new Labour government elected in 2024.