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Is your business agile? OU’s new microcredential designed to upskill managers and leaders

6 April 2021

Leaders are having to learn to adapt to increasingly complex and uncertain environments. As we adjust to ‘the new normal’, many leaders and managers will need to develop their skills to motivate and empower teams, and build resilience and sustainability. The Open University (OU) in collaboration with the Agile Business Consortium is launching a new 12-week […]

OU success at the 2020 Learning on Screen Awards

26 March 2021

The Open University has won five awards at this week’s Learning on Screen Awards, which for the past 15 years has showcased the best educational film and television. Three of the OU’s BBC co-productions, David Harewood: Psychosis & Me; BBC Ideas: OU Playlist; and 8 Days: To the Moon and Back celebrated wins, with the latter also […]

“Don’t be afraid to fail,” says top scholar Imran

25 March 2021

Open University graduate Imran Nasim is getting ready to jet off to the States to begin a research career at the tender age of 22. The Surrey scholar is celebrating after becoming what is thought to be the youngest person to achieve a PhD in Astrophysics. But despite his incredible success, Imran says he was […]

The best of both worlds – working and studying cyber security with the OU

24 March 2021

Pierce Holland was at a crossroads in his life at 18. He had a been offered a place at university, but the subjects he was going to study didn’t excite him. His employer offered him a managerial role and his parents wanted him to work. Then a conversation with an old school teacher led him […]

Award success for OU’s Open Justice Centre

23 March 2021

The Education for Justice initiative (E4J) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in which The Open University has played a pivotal role, has won the United Nations Secretary-General 2020 Innovation award. The prestigious global award recognises the vital work that E4J does to directly engage children, youth, teachers and academics to […]

App-y with that: research finds tech is an aid in relationships

23 March 2021

Research funded and led by The Open University is the first to demonstrate how using an App can play an effective role in relationships among couples. A report just published by the OU and the University of Brighton studied use of the relationship app Paired, following its launch last October as part of ongoing research […]

Funding award supports OU partnership to protect climate and restore floodplain meadows

22 March 2021

The OU’s Floodplain Meadows Partnership has won a substantial grant from Ecover to help restore and protect 50 hectares of floodplain meadows along the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire. The team, which includes scientists from the OU and partners; Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust and Long Mead Local Wildlife Site, will work […]

OU/BBC co-production The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime returns for a new series

22 March 2021

A new series co-produced between the BBC and The Open University offers viewers a fascinating insight into the dark and brutal world of organised crime. The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime begins on Tuesday 23rd March at 9pm on BBC Two. The two-part series was filmed over two years with fly on the wall access to […]

Ice, sand and the spiders from Mars in the laboratory

19 March 2021

Open University researchers have recreated the formation of spider-like patterns on Mars in their laboratory, which provides the first physical evidence that these features can be formed by a unique process unlike anything seen on Earth. In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports, led by OU Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr Lauren McKeown, the team […]

Changes in global rainfall in the past give future climate change insight

19 March 2021

New research from The Open University has revealed global tropical rainfall changes that took place during past climatic periods, which can help in understanding processes for the impact of future climate change. The study by an international research team, made up of researchers from The Open University (OU), the British Geological Survey and Brown University, […]

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