Author: Vera Hale
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OU Sustainathon 2025: A Week of Sustainable Innovation and Student Collaboration
Last week, The Open University proudly hosted its first-ever Sustainathon — an exciting, week-long online initiative where STEM student teams tackled real-world sustainability challenges presented by third-sector organisations. The main objective of the activity is to develop employability skills and increase sustainability awareness. This year, we were thrilled to collaborate with English Heritage and The…
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Designing the Future: Creativity, Innovation, and Real-World Problem Solving at the Open University
We asked a few of our students about their design inspirations. Our student, Julia Davis, is completing her BSc in Engineering, specialising in environment and sustainability. Below is her blog on her what it means to do design at OU. Designing the Future: Creativity, Innovation, and Real-World Problem Solving at the Open University Design at…
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The Evolution of Barbie: A Design Icon Through the Decades by Tara Duncan
We asked a few of our students about their design inspirations. Our first student is Tara Duncan, who is studying for the OU Open Degree and has just started the third level design module T317, after successfully completing U101 and T217. She explored the design and style icon Barbie. —- The Evolution of Barbie: A…
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Cross-pollination Resources
Over the last year the Cross Pollination research project, part of the Placed-Based Research Programme hub, worked in several locations to see how the Cross Pollination approach could enable local organisations to enable their own communities. One of the key objectives for this particular research project was to develop ways to cascade and enable cross-pollination…
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Celebrating our Gurnos
On a lovely sunny Saturday at the end of September, people on the outskirts of Merthyr got together to celebrate the place and community of Gurnos. The celebration was the outcome of several activities in partnership with the Open University in Wales as part of two different projects: the Creu Cyffro Community Renewal Funded project,…
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Meaningful participation through digital engagement
When COVID19 forced us to retreat into our social bubbles and our homes, the government needed to make plans so that people could still participate in planning matters that concerned them. Therefore, they issued emergency planning procedure guidelines for local authorities to ‘make any temporary amendments that are necessary to allow plan-making to progress, and…