News & articles

Researchers are developing new technologies which will seek to mitigate loneliness among older people who are socially distanced due to COVID-19.

The University of Oxford in partnership with The Open University (OU) have been awarded £900,000 by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to investigate how to improve support for older people with learning disabilities and their family carers.

The OU has been shortlisted for University of the Year and Most Innovative Teacher of the Year in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2020.

An OU team has received funding from the Mercers’ Company to develop a framework to nurture children’s pleasure in reading and writing.

New data which can be applied to sensors to detect ultraviolet light will lead to a range of new applications in Space and for industry

An OU-led research project has just got funding to tackle malaria, a fatal disease which remains active as the world deals with COVID-19.

The OU has received funding to train early career scientists for future positions in academia, industry and semi-government positions around research into the presence, mobility and reactivity of water in the Earth’s crust.

A project which tracks people’s experiences of heatwaves is being launched today (7 August 2020).

An OU PhD story who went from prison life to studying for a PhD, has been featured in BBC/OU short film.

A new research project into how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected wedding ceremonies, has just been launched.