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What in the world is going on?

Photo of a queue at the supermarket due to the precautions against Covid-19

2 May 2020

Researchers at The Open University are using their skills in social sciences and global studies to learn lessons for our future after COVID-19.

IDII Professor honoured for outstanding research

31 March 2020

Professor of Geography and Migration Parvati Raghuram has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Open University launches new Masters programme in Global Development

8 March 2020

Registration is open for The Open University's new distance-learning postgraduate Global Development qualifications.

Bringing space science down to earth

Photo of Alessandra Marino and Shonil Bhagwat

5 March 2020

When The Open University won £6.7 million for Astrobiology research, key to that success was the International Development and Inclusive Innovation strategic research area. Why?

Rays of hope in South Sudan

Photo of Ibba School head teacher Vicky Ajidiru with 4 students

8 February 2020

A pioneering school could be a model for girls' education in a country poised to shake off its troubled past.

Environmental graduates celebrate in Kenya

Environmental graduates and Open University academics pictured at ceremony

28 January 2020

The Open University's first Environmental Management MSc students funded in Kenya by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission have graduated with a ceremony in Nairobi.

No easy roads to development in Nepal

Photo of Kirsteen Merrillees crossing the river on a ropeway

15 January 2020

Kirsteen Merrilees is an engineer building roads in a remote region of one of the world’s most mountainous countries. She combines her challenging job with studying for an Open University PhD.

OU offers PhD studentships in Development Policy and Practice

Photo of two women looking at laptop, one indicating something on screen with her hand

2 December 2019

The Open University is inviting applications for fully-funded PhD research studentships in Development Policy and Practice, under a doctoral training partnership linking the OU, Brunel University London and Oxford University.

Course to help aid workers keep young and vulnerable safe is created by OU

1 November 2019

Online training to help humanitarian and development workers worldwide to fight abuse has been created by The Open University for the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA).

All the world’s a stage when international development meets Shakespeare

Photograph of children at Shakespeare's Globe workshop in China

28 October 2019

The Open University’s Development Policy and Practice (DPP) group has contributed to a project led by Shakespeare’s Globe theatre to provide teacher development in China.

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What in the world is going on?

IDII Professor honoured for outstanding research

Open University launches new Masters programme in Global Development

Bringing space science down to earth

Rays of hope in South Sudan

Environmental graduates celebrate in Kenya

No easy roads to development in Nepal

OU offers PhD studentships in Development Policy and Practice

Course to help aid workers keep young and vulnerable safe is created by OU

All the world’s a stage when international development meets Shakespeare

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