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Olga Jurasz wearing a green top and blue jacket, with Alex Davies-Jones, wearing a pink top, looking at a copy of the Online Against Violence report

Largest-ever UK report into online violence against women launched at Westminster

The full report of the largest-ever UK study into online violence against women and girls, designed and led by Professor Olga Jurasz at The Open University (OU) has been launched and discussed at the Houses of Parliament.

25th March 2024
Scientist with long, dark hair, wearing safety glasses, operating laboratory equipment

OU invests in its Affiliated Research Centres to improve health

The Open University (OU) has invested in a programme of research with its Affiliated Research Centres (ARC) through providing catalyst funding for six projects.

22nd March 2024
Rose Capdevilla, with shoulder-length, dark hair, wearing a dark top, looking at the camera

“It sounds like a whisper”: feminist psychology and the gendering of power

In her inaugural lecture on 21 March 2024, Rose Capdevila, Professor of Psychology at the OU, discussed research around the gendering of power in three contexts: activism, the history of psychology and social media.

22nd March 2024
A silver smart bus in a street

OU teams up with Milton Keynes City Council on smart city research

Milton Keynes City Council and The Open University (OU) are once again teaming up to promote Milton Keynes as one of the world’s leading smart cities through the hugely successful MK:Smart initiative.

19th March 2024
Mark Durkin standing with a group of people outside a building

New £4.8M research initiative to combat economic inactivity in Northern Ireland

The Open University is involved in a £4.8 million research and policy action group, EPIC Futures NI, aimed at addressing economic inactivity in Northern Ireland.

19th March 2024
The Open University logo with the words 'The Open University, Open Societal Challenges' underneath it

The Open University asks UK charities to set challenges for the future

The Open University (OU) is pioneering a new approach to research by asking the UK charity sector to determine future challenges that we can collaboratively tackle.

14th March 2024
The Open University logo with the words 'The Open University, Open Societal Challenges' underneath it

The Open University asks businesses to set challenges for the future

The Open University (OU) is pioneering a new approach to research by asking businesses to determine future challenges that we can tackle.

8th March 2024
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter flying over Mars

Funding to analyse hundreds of thousands of images from Mars spacecraft

An OU researcher has received just over half a million pounds to use new Machine Learning tools to analyse huge image datasets collected by spacecraft orbiting Mars.

29th February 2024
Vice-Chancellor Professor Tim Blackman and Executive Dean of the STEM Faculty Professor Nick Braithwaite being presented with the award from Her Majesty The Queen.

The Queen presents The Open University with Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its OpenSTEM Labs

The Open University was presented with a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education by Her Majesty The Queen this week (22 February 2024) at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace.

23rd February 2024
A blue prostate cancer ribbon in a person's hands

New research funding to study incurable prostate cancer

One of The Open University's (OU) Open Societal Challenges projects which seeks new approaches to treat an incurable form of prostate cancer has received a Prostate Cancer UK Research Innovation Award.

22nd February 2024

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