News & articles

An OU researcher has led the review of the relatively new research impact requirement in a new Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) review published this month (October 2018).

Today’s article comes from Agata Lisiak, former Visiting Fellow at The Open University and Professor of Migration studies at Bard College in Berlin, Germany. She explores the fast-changing world of research into migration and belonging

'It's easy to forget that the British Isles have proved as fertile a ground for migrants heading elsewhere as it has a pull to migrants from overseas', says Professor Tanja Bueltmann from Northumbria University. Today she looks at the impact British migration to the US

Today we share an article originally published on openDemocracy and later shared on OpenLearn, by Dr Steve Garner, Head of Criminology & Sociology at Birmingham City University. In it, he explores four frames that inform how ‘white Brits’ perceive immigration

It has been two years since the demolition of the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp. Today, Help Refugees has co-published a report with Refugee Rights Europe in order to highlight the human rights situation which has been unfolding in Northern France

Research in Finland suggests that the time demands, insecurity & isolation of cleaning work may make the dream of integration harder for new arrivals to achieve. Dr Maiju Strömmer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, discusses

As the President of the United States confirms plans to cut foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador because of the looming 'migrant caravan', Dr Shonil Bhagwat, Lecturer in Geography at the OU, reflects on the environmental impact of a ‘Trump Wall’

The BepiColombo spacecraft blasted off into space, bound for Mercury in the early hours of Saturday 20 October 2018 from French Guyana to travel 9 billion km to reach Mercury in 2025.

Take the dragons and the zombies away from the television adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire novels and you are left with the seemingly authentic portrayal of a pseudo-medieval world

Is higher education a fix for the refugee crisis? This question is explored through the voices and stories of Syrian youth in Turkey in the following blog, written by Dr Melis Cin from Lancaster University & Professor Necmettin Doğan from Istanbul Commerce University