News

New OU/BBC Series - What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
24th September 2019
On Monday 30th September 2019 a new OU/BBC TV series will be shown on BBC2 at 9pm.
OU Awarded Funding by ESA to Investigate Socioeconomic Benefits Exploration Space Missions
3rd December 2018
Dr Manish Patel, Senior Lecturer in The Open University (OU) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics and Dr Leslie Budd, Reader in Social Enterprise in the OU's Faculty of Business and Law, have been awarded a grant of €350,000 by the European Space Agency (ESA) for their cross-faculty collaborative study titled the ‘Benefits of the European Space Agency Exploration Roadmap in Socioeconomics’ (BEERS).
How A Force for Good Is Tackling Poverty
8th November 2018
The poverty premium – the term referring to the extra cost of being poor, which currently costs the 14 million low-income UK households £490 a year each. In her latest blog, Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, talks about a workshop held by The Finance Innovation Lab to generate ideas to tackle the Poverty Premium.
New Grant to Research How Migration Aids Growth in Africa
26th September 2018
The Open University has been awarded £706,706 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to explore how migration is contributing to growth in Africa. The first workshop to kick-start the project was held in October 2018.
New Book Release: The New Power Elite
26th June 2018
FASS Economics academic Alan Shipman's new book, 'The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed', has recently been released. This book provides "a compact, comprehensive account of who’s at the top, and why we let them get there".