Welcome to The Open University’s Innovation and International Development research portal. The ground-breaking research outlined here reflects our mission to promote educational opportunity and social justice.
Migration and forced displacement are among today's most pressing global challenges. Our research focuses on mobility, skills and development, integration and citizenship.
Transforming education is vital to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We are investigating innovations to increase participation in learning.
Kirsteen Merrilees is an engineer building roads in a remote region of one of the world’s most mountainous countries. She combines her challenging job with studying for an Open University PhD.
"The precious ‘real world’ insights that academics try to decipher in silent velvety libraries, are what many OU students experience in their lives". Dr Lorena Lombardozzi highlights the power of education.
Since 2015, Europe’s so-called 'refugee crisis' has been the centre of intense debate. But what if we began to look at it another way: as a refugee reception crisis?
