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Workshop launches new GCRF-funded research project 'Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa'
5 December 2018The Open University hosted the inception workshop for its new GCRF Inclusive Societies project on How to link industrial and social innovation for inclusive development: lessons from tackling cancer care in Africa (now shortened to Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa (ICCA)) on 15-19 October 2018.
How a force for good is tackling poverty
6 November 2018Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, talks about a recent workshop she attended as part by the Finance Innovation Lab to discuss ideas to tackle the poverty premium.
Research institute focuses on future of innovation in life sciences and international development
5 June 2018Insights from this year's Innogen Institute annual meeting, which marked the move of the Institute’s Directorship from the University of Edinburgh to The Open University.
Technology-enabled language learning for refugees and migrants
22 April 2018Dr Koula Charitonos shares important insights from a recent roundtable focused on the role of technology in language education for migrants and refugees.
Exploring teenage pregnancy and motherhood in Nigeria through PhD study
4 April 2018Ayomide Oluseye is a PhD student with The Open University, studying into teenage pregnancy and motherhood in Nigeria. In this blog, Ayomide shares what inspired her to focus on this for her PhD and what she hopes to achieve.
Collaborating to support teacher learning in Zambia
4 April 2018A look at the history and impact of the OU's Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) in Zambia, by Kris Stutchbury, Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education and Academic Director of TESSA.
Where are we 100 years after women got the vote?
8 March 2018It has been 100 years since the first women secured the right to vote in the UK, but we are still 200 years away from gaining gender parity.
The Oxfam Case: Why are we so outraged?
15 February 2018Professor Helen Yanacopulos discusses the collective sense of denial surrounding the recent Oxfam scandal
Using TESS-India materials to motivate teachers
1 February 2018STIR's Chief Programme Officer, James Townsend, shares how TESS-India materials are used to implement a ‘See, Feel and Change’ approach
Encounters with the real lived spaces of the TESS-India MOOCs
29 January 2018The OU's Dr Simon Cross discusses the impact that meeting some of the 40,000 TESS-India MOOC participants has had on him
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