The Open University has secured a significant funding boost of more than £900,000 from the European Space Agency to further its cutting-edge work on space imaging technology.

The Open University Atmospheric research and Space exploration group, led by Professor Manish Patel, has been awarded a £2.3 million grant from the European Space Agency to help develop instrumentation for the EnVision mission to Venus in 2032.

This month’s (April 2025) research image of the month is from Dr Dan Taylor. Dan told us all about his vibrant research and how it is reflected in this colourful research image of the month picture.

In her inaugural lecture, on Thursday 3 April 2025, Carol Azumah Dennis, Professor of Education, Policy and Practice in The Open University’s Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, looked at decolonising education, offering a manifesto which envisions an alternative vision of what the sector might be.