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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

Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence Conference

Co-hosted by Creative Interactions and Contemporary Cultures of Writing at The Open University, together with colleagues from Falmouth University and Northwestern University in Qatar, this event will be held at the Foundling Museum in London on the 20th and 21st of June, with online pre-sessions on the 10th and 19th of June. Registration is now open. Spaces are free, but limited in person.

19th December 2024

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

Researching Global China Conference – Innovation and Challenges

Welcome to the Researching Global China Conference, with this year’s theme looking at methodologies around Innovation and Challenges.

5th November 2024

Economics seminar series: Balancing investment, consumption and employment in Tanzania

Tanzania’s biggest economic challenge in the next 25 years is to leverage its rapidly growing labour force. Marc Wuyts will argue that promoting growth by restraining consumption – the focus of past development plans - is problematic in an economy characterised by extensive surplus labour and rapid labour-force growth. Input-output and consumption multiplier analysis can help ensure the future expansion of consumption and employment remain in tune with the pace and the patterns of investment today.

21st October 2024

GCSJ roundtable: How far did we decolonise

This Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) roundtable event invites a critical exploration of the multifaceted work of decolonisation across the Open University.

10th October 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

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