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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.

A project which will expose the links between climate change and international trade has just received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DfID).

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.