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2 February 2012
Economists call for radical and immediate reform of financial system
• New research uncovers key policy recommendations for financial reform to exit the crisis• MPs told “Focus must be on finance for innovation, not innovation for finance”London, 2nd February 2012 – The financial crisis has exposed a dysfunctional financial system that threatens European ...
18 November 2011
Student film makers get creative with climate change message
Students from the UK’s leading film schools have risen to a challenge from The Open University and the BBC to present environmental debates in a fresh and creative way. More than 80 ideas for films were pitched as part of a competition open to the students with a remit covering a wide range of environmental ...
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Link to short film competition winners
Link to Creative Climate website
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19 May 2011
Businesses should be rewarded for innovation
European governments need to devise policies that enable financial markets to reward rather than penalise innovation and thereby encourage longer-term investment planning, research coordinated by the Open University warns.Evidence suggests that companies who engage in riskier and more innovative ventures are being ...
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Professor Marianna Mazzucato, Faculty of Social Sciences
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5 April 2011
Would you make a good eyewitness? Have a go with the OU's new PhotoFit app
We’re all familiar with the photo ‘reconstructions’ of offenders’ faces, created and publicised in the hope a member of the public will recognise the perpetrator and lead to a break in the case. Yet just how easy is it to recreate a stranger’s face from memory?The Open University has ...
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Graham Pike, Professor of Applied Cognition at the OU
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30 March 2011
Open University programme for BBC FOUR wins broadcast award
A documentary produced by the Open University for BBC FOUR, which focused on the reality of being sectioned, has won the 2011 Learning on Screen General Education Broadcast Award.Sectioned followed the lives of three men with long-term mental health problems who are initially ‘sectioned’ (detained under ...
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Faculty of Health and Social Care
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8 March 2011
Restorative justice policy and research too narrow, says report
A report released today by the independent think-tank, Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS), has identified some key areas for improvement for restorative justice.‘Drawing together research, policy and practice for restorative justice’ is the result of a joint seminar held in partnership with the ...
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International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR)
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24 June 2010
What is Black British Jazz?
A team of researchers from The Open University is examining the cultural identity and emergence of Black British Jazz (BBJ). The project asks how far it can be considered a distinct tradition within British music and is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (£495,643). This is the first time ...
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Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Black British Jazz on iTunes U
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11 May 2010
Leading economists and historians to debate “Innovation and Inequality” and their importance for understanding the financial crisis
15th-16th May 2010, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, ItalyLeading innovation economists, historians and industrial experts will gather in Pisa on May 15th to discuss dynamic links between innovation and inequality, the need for new indicators of inequality that go beyond wages and income, and the ...
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19 April 2010
OU presents European Citizenship research findings to Brussels policy makers
Key findings from an international research project led by The Open University examining European citizenship are due to be presented to European policy makers at a conference in Brussels on 27 April. Legally, all citizens of EU member states are European citizens, and the Enact project has involved researchers from ...
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Research Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
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9 April 2010
OU academic honoured by Academy of Social Sciences
The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) has conferred the award of Academician on Richard Collins, Professor of Media Studies, at The Open University. Richard is among 57 academics to have received the award. Academicians are distinguished scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors who ...
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8 April 2010
Eyewitness: Could you recall the face of a murderer? Ground breaking new series explores human memory
TX: Sunday 18 April, 10.50pm, BBC TWO, 3 x 60 minutesMany of us will be a witness to a violent crime in our lifetime and recalling the event to the police isn’t as easy as you might think – because our own memory plays tricks on us. In Eyewitness, an audacious and groundbreaking new three-part series on ...
29 March 2010
‘Personal investment: financial planning in an uncertain world’ empowers readers to gain financial control
Timed perfectly with the critical period in which all are hoping that the recovery from the 2007-2008 financial crisis finally gets under way, The Open University, in association with Palgrave Macmillan has published a new book, Personal investment: financial planning in an uncertain world to help individuals and ...
24 March 2010
Identity, Politics and Obama – Does ‘who we are’ still matter?
A groundbreaking new handbook released by SAGE this month brings together the vast and interdisciplinary field of identity research, culminating from a huge four-year, £4million ESRC funded research programme on Identities and Social Action. The SAGE Handbook of Identities is edited by professors Margaret ...
22 March 2010
€2 million for research project to rethink and redefine European citizenship
An ambitious five-year global research project to examine and redefine what ‘European citizenship’ means is being led by The Open University, with a €2 million grant from the European Research Council. The project Citizenship after Orientalism, based in the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and ...
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9 December 2009
French COP15 analysis tool developed with Open University expertise
The Open University has taken a role in helping French officials assess climate negotiations and decisions at the COP-15 climate change conference.The SynsCop15 programme, which was initiated by the French Ministry of Environment through the GICC programme (managing climate change impacts), brings together three ...
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26 November 2009
The Climate Connection: journeys into the heart of the climate change debate
TX from 30 November, BBC World ServiceThe Climate Connection follows five people as they embark on a journey of self-exploration – each championing an issue that they believe is at the centre of climate change debate. Produced in partnership with The Open University, in each programme one person from a ...
20 November 2009
Hope in a Changing Climate: changing the course of history for millions
TX: BBC World News, Friday 27 November Screening at COP15 Climate Change conferenceAs the globe prepares for COP15, a new documentary on BBC World optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large, decimated eco-systems can be restored, Hope in a Changing Climate, which will have a special ...
23 October 2009
Above the law? Thinking Allowed investigates white collar crime
TX: From Wednesday 4 November, 4pm, BBC Radio 4 – 3 x 30minsCorporate fraud and financial crimes dominate today’s front pages and in a special three-part series for the BBC Radio 4 series Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor goes behind the headlines to investigate white collar crime – from its late ...
5 October 2009
National Skills Academy endorses OU Foundation Degree in Financial Services
The Foundation Degree in Financial Services, a new qualification from The Open University (OU) has been endorsed by The National Skills Academy for Financial Services (NSAFS) as an innovative way of opening access to financial services careers. Under a Memorandum of Understanding agreed between the OU and NSAFS, the ...
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14 July 2009
Finance, innovation and growth - €1.49M for new research on Europe’s financial sector led by the OU
The Open University has been awarded €1.49 million by the European Commission to co-ordinate FINNOV – a new research project aimed at understanding the sources, implications and management of positive and negative changes in financial markets. The research findings will be used to inform financial policy ...
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