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Created by FASS Criminology academic Dr David Scott, a film about the Grenfell Tower tragedy has won not one but three awards.

School of Social Sciences and Global Studies launches informed blogs on social scientific research in the time of COVID.

Course written in an unprecedented matter of days by FASS Psychology academics Dr Naomi Moller and Dr Andreas Vossler has seen a surge in visitors to The Open University’s OpenLearn Create platform.

FASS Professor of Geography and Migration, Parvati Raghuram, is among the 51 leading UK social scientists to have been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).

Psychologists Dr Gini Harrison and Dr Donna Moore have developed website OpenPaws, Open Perinatal Anxiety and Worry Support for new mums, to better understand and support women’s experiences of perinatal anxiety.

Research by Senior Lecturer in Psychology Dr Gemma Briggs has helped produce a toolkit of resources for police forces to use in a campaign for safer driving.

The Open University has unveiled its new postgraduate Development programme, successor to the popular and influential MSc in Development Management.

On Wednesday 4 March The Open University once again teams up with BBC Radio 4’s long-running social science programme, Thinking Allowed, for ten weeks.

On 2 March, a new four-part OU/BBC series ‘Age of the Image’ starts on BBC Four at 9pm.

Dr Richard Marsden, Lecturer in History, with Sarah Roberts of the OU in Wales and partner Linc Cymru, have been successful in their bid for funding for a community research and engagement project with participants in Blaenau Gwent (South Wales).