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Inaugural Steven Chase Memorial Award for policing research

The first recipient of the Steven Chase Memorial Award was Dr Paul Walley who is the Director of Learning in the OU Business School’s Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL).

25th July 2023
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OU research informs new end of life care guide

A new guide to support palliative and end of life care has been informed by OU researchers.

18th July 2023
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OU research informs digitalisation of energy sector

OU researchers have received £621,000 for their role in the digitalisation of training materials for the energy sector.

18th July 2023
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Space, education and financial literacy influence OU PGR prizes

Research into space, education, and financial literacy in India, influenced top prize winners in the OU’s Postgraduate Research Poster Competition 2023.

17th July 2023
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Data (Science) is everywhere and for everyone – but only if we are professional

In her inaugural lecture, Rachel Hilliam, Professor of Statistics in the OU’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, explored the role played by Data Science in ensuring that data is being used ethically, stored safely and analysed robustly.

13th July 2023
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Education report highlights challenges of complex learning environments

This year’s future of education report highlights 10 promising innovations facing learners and educators over the coming years.

6th July 2023
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OU researchers support Euclid Dark Energy Satellite Mission to Map the Universe

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid flagship Dark Energy Satellite Mission launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday 1 July 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

4th July 2023
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Hat trick for OU International Development research at Ely Graduation

Three postgraduate research students from the OU’s International Development research area graduated at Ely Cathedral in May and are already excelling in their careers.

27th June 2023
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Expanding gay sex pardons to women won’t help most prosecuted lesbian

More than a decade after launching a scheme to disregard and pardon convictions for historic “gay sex” offences, the government has now announced the scheme will apply to women.

26th June 2023
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An element essential to life discovered on one of Saturn’s moons, raising hopes of finding alien microbes

Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by ongoing geological processes. Its icy shell overlies an internal, liquid ocean. There, chemically charged warm water seeps out of the rocky core onto the ocean floor – potentially providing nourishment for microbial life.

16th June 2023

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China set to blast off to the far side of the Moon – here’s what it could discover

China is attempting to recover the first ever soil and rock samples from the lunar far side. The surface mission, Chang’e 6, named after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang’e, is a successor to the successful sample return mission, Chang’e 5, and a part of the Chinese lunar exploration programme.

2nd May 2024
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