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This week, Christina Myers defended her thesis titled ‘A Framework to Democratise the Design of Educational Games on Social Issues during Game Jams’. Game Jams are multi-day events organised to…
October to December 2020 CORE broke records, partnered with arXiv.org and continued improving our REF2021 compliance monitoring service. The CORE team had a busy end to 2020! Our team concentrated…
Advaith Siddharthan has been awarded his chair, with the title of Professor of Computer Science and Society. STEM Executive Dean, Professor Nick Braithwaite said: This is in recognition of his…
KMi are inviting applications for our Summer Scholarship 2021. This is an exciting opportunity for 16 to 20-year-olds from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds to discover what it’s like to be…
The OU-led Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) has been crowned UK winner of Ecover’s ‘Fertilise the Future Fund’. Beating over 700 other projects from across Europe, the team has secured a significant grant to…
The School of Engineering and Innovation, STEM is delighted to announce that it has received an Athena SWAN Silver Award following its recent submission to AdvanceHE. Athena SWAN is an…
Congratulations to Professor of Planetary Science and Exploration Mahesh Anand and the team which produced ‘8 Days: to the Moon and Back’ for winning two awards at the Learning on Screen Awards last week.…
Researchers from The School of Physical Sciences at The Open University (OU) have recreated the formation of spider-like patterns on Mars in their labs. This provides the first physical evidence that…
In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has…
A new research grant will make it possible to create maps of ozone and dust found on Mars as part of the ExoMars mission. The mission involved the European Space Agency’s ExoMars…
Congratulations to Heidi Thiemann who has just won the Bronze Medal in the Physics category at the 2021 Parliamentary & Scientific Committee’s STEM for Britain Awards ceremony, for early career…
It is with great sadness that we share the news that our colleague, Simon Clark passed away suddenly last week. Simon was a Senior Lecturer in Astronomy within the School…