OU inaugural lecture: Capturing feeling and experience in research about creativity In her inaugural lecture, Professor Stephanie Taylor discusses the associations of ...creativity, its contradictions and how we can understand the experience of being creative.
Abstract: Creativity carries contradictory associations. It supposedly drives the unworldly artist who turns away from practical concerns in pursuit of creative fulfilment, and also the hard-headed entrepreneur and the supremely rational scientist. Creativity is thought of as the special gift that marks off a minority of ‘
Open University inaugural lecture on: Cause-related marketing As The Open University celebrates its 50th anniversary, Gordon Liu, Professor of Ma...rketing Strategy, delivered his inaugural lecture on how effective corporate social responsibility strategies enhance a firm’s reputation with its key stakeholders. Hear what Professor Liu has to say in the video.
Dynamic climates: what can other planets tell us about the Earth? The Open University opened its doors to welcome visitors to Stephen Lewis’s inaug...ural lecture on 9 November to mark the first 2021-22 lecture. Stephen Lewis, Professor of Atmospheric Physics, delivered his inaugural lecture on the atmospheres, weather and climate of other planets in the Solar System.
Rethinking the boundaries of astrobiology - Professor Karen Olsson-Francis' Inaugural lecture ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ is one of the most fundamental questions of our... time and is the driving force behind the field of astrobiology. To address this question, we must first understand how microorganisms survive, and thrive, in extreme environments on Earth. These environments include those that are analogous with assumed habitable extra-terrestrial locations and so can inform our understanding of habitability and the signs of life (bio-signatures) when exploring beyond Earth. In t