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Is obesity inevitable?
The numbers of overweight and obese children are rising as they move through primary school. This echoes the increasing number of obese adults in the UK, which has nearly doubled in the last 25 years. But is obesity inevitable as we grow older? OU academic Dr Joan Simons has worked closely with the BBC to […]
Five problematic sex messages perpetuated by advice manuals
I can’t recommend reading over 60 sex advice manuals. I spent several months doing this and it results in a particular combination of sadness, anger and frustration that I’d rather never repeat. The reason for my painful few months was my new book, Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture with Rosalind Gill and Laura […]
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Fix broken part-time market in England with flexible learning incentive
The Open University (OU) is calling on the Government to introduce a new “flexible learning incentive” in its submission to the Post-18 Review into education and funding in England. The OU argues that the main cause of the dramatic decline in the number of HE students aged 21 and over in England – especially among […]
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Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Britain’s increasingly brutal regime of “migration control” has come to a head. After almost two years as home secretary, Amber Rudd resigned on April 29, apologising for misleading parliament of deportation targets, amid public revulsion at the treatment of British people who had come from the Caribbean half a century ago. The prime minister, who […]
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Plan to bring back rocks from Mars is our best bet for finding clues of past life
Sitting with 200 people at the International Mars Sample Return Conference in Berlin recently to discuss the feasibility of bringing samples back from Mars to Earth, I remember the first such conference in Paris ten years ago. Many of the same people were present again, older and possibly wiser, but certainly more grey or bald. […]
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Why cancer cells go to sleep
Cancer has always been thought of as something that grows rapidly and uncontrollably, but this view may be wrong. New evidence suggests that cancer alternatively uses the “accelerator” and the “brake” in order to survive. If you plot the growth of prostate cancer tumour progression over years, you get a graph that looks something like […]
Mars and the ice-filled crater on its surface
An ice-filled Martian crater is visible in the first photographs of Mars transmitted from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). After a year of extremely dangerous aerobraking, the ExoMars TGO began transmitting photographs of the surface from its camera system, known as CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System). The first photograph taken by the ExoMars TGO […]
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Exploring technologies to improve how citizens and the police work together to keep us safe
Researchers at The Open University (OU) have received a £1 million Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) grant to improve the way members of the public and authorities such as the police work together. This will support them to better investigate and reduce potential or actual threats to citizen privacy, safety, and security. The […]
The UK’s obesity epidemic – the challenge
Obesity cuts life expectancy by up to ten years, and costs the UK £6.1 billion per year to treat. It’s a huge problem – according to the Health Survey for England, obesity levels in England have nearly doubled in the last 25 years and nearly two thirds of adults were overweight or obese in 2015. […]
“Game-changing technology” brings a double win for the OU at Guardian University Awards
The Open University is celebrating after winning two awards in the Guardian University Awards 2018 for Teaching Excellence and Digital Innovation. Acting Vice-Chancellor of the OU, Professor Mary Kellett said: “This is fantastic news. To win not just one but two prestigious national awards – teaching excellence and digital innovation – is an amazing tribute […]
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