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Congratulations to KMi’s Newest Doctor, Zeeshan Jan!

14 Jun 2022

KMi would like to congratulate our newest Doctor, Zeeshan Jan. Formerly a PhD Research Student, Zeeshan has been a part of KMi for over four years. His thesis, entitled ‘Peer-review…

KMi’s Agnese Chiatti wins prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science

13 Jun 2022

At a ceremony held this morning in Milan, Agnese Chiatti has received the “L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science” prize, in recognition of the excellence of her research in Robotics. This…

Athena Swan Silver Award Success

08 Jun 2022

KMi is delighted to announce that we have received an Athena Swan Silver Award following our recent submission to Advance HE. The Athena Swan Self-Assessment (SAT) Team had membership drawn…

Meet HanS, the Health and Safety Robot Inspector

27 May 2022

The Intelligent Systems and Data Science (ISDS) robotics team has developed HanS, a Health and Safety Robot Inspector. HanS is an experiment in service robotics and has been designed to…

CORE: Our commitment to The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

23 May 2022

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) offer a set of guidelines by which open scholarly infrastructure organisations and initiatives that support the research community can be operated and sustained.…

Civilisations beyond our galaxy

22 May 2022

How many civilisations might there be in our Galaxy, and how could we find out? To celebrate the 90th birthday (28th May 2020) of Frank Drake, who formulated his famous…

REF 2021 recognises 82% of OU research impact as world-leading or internationally excellent

12 May 2022

The Research Excellence Framework 2021 results are out! KMi contributed to several units of assessment, the biggest of which was Computer Science and Informatics, which submitted 45 full-time equivalent staff,…

CORE update for January to March 2022

28 Apr 2022

The first quarter of the new year was very productive for the CORE team with a number of new releases. First, we have been working hard on improving the user…

5 Big Questions About the Universe

14 Apr 2022

Last year, the BBC broadcast “The Universe” TV series, which several SPS Astronomy staff were academic consultants for. As a spin-off from that, Professor Andrew Norton helped the OU Broadcast…

KMi’s Next Director is Finally Announced!

07 Apr 2022

KMi is excited to announce that Professor Harith Alani has been appointed as KMi’s 5th director. Harith will be taking up his post on the 1st of August, once Professor…

Major update of CORE search

24 Mar 2022

CORE has just released a major update to its search engine, including a sleek new user interface and upgraded search functionality driven by the new CORE API V3.0. CORE Search is…

Call for Summer Scholarships for Young Black People is launched

22 Mar 2022

KMi has launched our 3rd year’s range of Summer Scholarships for Young Black People, offering to provide financial support with a bursary of £2,700, alongside the experience to build up…