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President Zelensky wearing an army green t-shirt with the words I'M UKRAINIAN, stares down the camera lens

The Zelensky Story triumphs at Broadcast Awards 2025

OU/BBC co-production 'The Zelensky Story' wins Best Specialist Factual Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2025.

12th February 2025
Three people (two women and a man) are engaged in discussion in a reading group setting.

Building bibliotherapy project awarded £29,657 by the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy

Open University researchers Francesca Benatti, Siobhan Campbell and Alessio Antonini awarded £29,657 for 'Immersive Online Reading for Mental Wellbeing' project

27th January 2025
Commuters walk down steps in Brixton underground station while a large painting hangs above them.

Art History secures PhD partnership with Transport for London

Art History have secured a funded PhD studentship, ‘Art on the Underground’ with the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership.

21st January 2025

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Awards students’ success

The Open University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences presented its Student Awards for outstanding achievement and performance.

17th December 2024
an iterative head coversations: Look at what they've done!, Look at who they are! Where are they now? What are they hiding? Whodunnit? Why did they do it?

Psychology academic consults for OU/BBC short film on Armchair Detectives

A new OU/BBC short film on Armchair Detectives featuring the OU’s Professor Kesi Mahendran will air as part of Morning Live on BBC One and iPlayer between 09:30 and 10:45, on Friday 8 November.

8th November 2024
A young Mozart plays the harpsichord in front of an elite audience

Music academics create interactive “show” supporting OU/BBC series “Mozart: Rise of a Genius”

OU Music academics Naomi Barker and Helen Coffey create interactive ‘show’ supporting OU/BBC co-production “Mozart: Rise of a Genius”

24th September 2024
the NEW ABC UK team members (from left to right: Stavropoulou, De Abreu and Crafter) during a dissemination event, June 2024

Psychology researchers celebrated in OU Research Excellence Awards 2024

Professor Sarah Crafter and Dr Nelli Stavropoulou from the School of Psychology & Counselling have won this year’s 2024 Open University Research Excellence Award (REA) for ‘Outstanding Open Research’.

18th September 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky smiles at the camera

Politics lecturer consults for new OU/BBC series “The Zelensky Story”

Open University’s Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody consults for OU/BBC co-production The Zelensky Story

2nd September 2024
A woman wearing a hijab, looking at a painting in the National Gallery, Indonesia

New paper shows the value of arts and humanities degrees

A new paper has challenged misconceptions of arts and humanities (A&H) degrees, showing the value they bring to the economy and society.

15th August 2024
A field with five wind turbines with the sun setting in the background

Challenging the narrative on climate crisis

FASS academic insight and expertise has been used to help create new learning resources to challenge the narrative around the climate crisis.

30th July 2024

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