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‘The OU empowered me to learn my way,’ says Paralympic Gold medallist Gregg Stevenson
On the back of his incredible gold medal race with rowing partner Lauren Rowles, Sports, Fitness and Coaching graduate Gregg Stevenson took time out of his celebrations to share his inspirational story with The Open University community. After a traumatic incident when serving as a Royal Engineer Commando, Gregg struggled to come to terms with […]
OU interactive educational show about composer Mozart supports a new three-part BBC series
If you’ve ever wondered why composer Mozart became so well known a team at The Open University has created an interactive educational ‘show’ that demonstrates his brilliance. It coincides with the airing of a new three-part Open University/BBC co-production called Mozart: Rise of a Genius beginning on Monday, 16 September, at 9pm on BBC Two […]
Open University launches funding opportunity to support disabled entrepreneurs
The Open University’s (OU) brand new Open Business Creators Fund for Disabled Entrepreneurs is now open. £25,000 in total funding is being offered from the OU to help disabled individuals in the UK kickstart their business ideas. This opportunity has been launched in collaboration with Scope, the UK’s leading disability equality charity, to support disabled […]
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‘OU study unlocked career opportunities I never imagined were possible’
When Law student Thomas, 38, left the British Army, he had no idea what his future would look like. Now in the final year of his Open University (OU) degree, Thomas has secured a prestigious training contract with world leading law firm, Freshfields LLP, providing a dream start to his career in law. Thomas shares […]
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OU report highlights benefits of Employee Ownership for sustainable food and farming
A new report from The Open University, in collaboration with Riverford Organic Farmers and Sustain, explores how employee ownership can address the complex challenges facing the food and farming sector. The report, titled ‘Managing employee ownership transitions for sustainability in food and farming enterprises: Learning from Riverford’, delves into the case of Riverford Organic Farmers, […]
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Grenfell was not a state ‘failure’ – it was institutional violence
Following the findings of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry Victoria Cooper, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University and David Whyte, Professor of Climate Justice from Queen Mary University of London, examine how ‘institutional violence’ played a part. People are not used to thinking of decisions made in boardrooms or by […]
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Five disinformation tactics Russia is using to try to influence the US election
Russia is using more disinformation tactics to influence the US election, says Open University academic Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody, a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies. Here she lists the five methods she has researched that show this. The White House’s recent exposure of Russian attempts to influence this year’s US presidential election will come […]
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The OU’s Centre for Electronic Imaging celebrates its 20th anniversary
On the 4th September 2024, The Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) held an event at the OU to mark two decades of pioneering research and development in advanced electronic image sensing technologies. The CEI is a unique industrial/academic partnership between Teledyne-e2v and the Open University. Based at the OU since 2008, the CEI has grown […]
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Why not knowing what to do isn’t always a bad thing for leaders
Lecturer in Work-based Learning at The Open University, Sarah Bloomfield, and Clare Rigg from Lancaster University write for The Conversation about why not knowing what to do isn’t always a bad thing for leaders. In 2002, after a Pentagon news briefing, the then US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld was widely ridiculed for his thoughts about […]
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Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker: a tumultuous examination of the impact of domestic abuse on motherhood
Sally O’Reilly is an Honorary Associate in Creating Writing at The Open University and here she gives her review of a new book just out by US writer Chelsea Bieker on Madwoman – about the long-term effect of domestic abuse on motherhood. Clove is a young woman with a seemingly good life. She has an […]
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