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KMi and Springer Nature renew their partnership for another two years

27 Nov 2025

We are very happy to announce that KMi has secured a new two-year contract with Springer Nature (SN), which will continue the long-established strategic partnership until December 2027. This marks…

Rethinking collective decision-making in the age of social media

21 Nov 2025

In her inaugural lecture, on Thursday 21 November 2024, Anna De Liddo, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of Research at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, pointed…

Breaking barriers: Teresa Sides explores AI adoption in primary care

20 Nov 2025

Teresa Sides has successfully defended her PhD viva on 6th November 2025. Her thesis, “Understanding the Barriers to AI Adoption Within Primary Care: A Novel Model for Acceptance and Resistance,”…

Celebrating KMi’s 30th Birthday

18 Nov 2025

In 1995, two truly visionary academics from The Open University (OU); Prof Marc Eisenstadt from Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Prof Tom Vincent from the…

Camera in Times of Crisis!

07 Nov 2025

Dr Folasayo Olalere (E&I) recently co-edited a book titled Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa, along with two other editors: Dr Kehinde Adewumi and Prof. Giles Duniya. The book…

Celebrating Ortenz Rose: 45+ Years at The Open University

30 Oct 2025

After an incredible 45-year journey at The Open University, Ortenz is retiring. Her contributions, especially to the early days and growth of KMi, have left a lasting legacy. On Tuesday,…

Transforming transport with AI: KMi and ClearView’s vision for smart cities

29 Oct 2025

Clearview Intelligence and KMi successfully applied to the UKRI KTP scheme, securing a budget for designing and marketing new products and services using computer vision and AI for location intelligence…

KMi secured a new UKRI Metascience project to assess UK’s competitiveness in research

09 Oct 2025

KMi secured a new research project “Tracking Stars and Unicorns” funded by the UKRI Metascience unit, with an award of £310,646, to look at successful and unsuccessful proposals within all…

KMi nets £106k UKRI grant to put AI in the grant-review driving seat

08 Oct 2025

KMi researchers have secured £106,078 from UKRI’s Metascience Unit to explore how large language models can streamline grant peer review without diluting fairness. The 12-month project, led by Prof Petr…

Closing the gap: Vaclav Bayer’s PhD shows how Learning Analytics can help to make education more equitable

06 Oct 2025

Vaclav Bayer, who joined KMi as a part-time doctoral student in 2020, successfully defended his thesis on 9 September 2025. His work asks a single, urgent question: can the data…

Korea Institute of Materials Science

16 Sep 2025

In May 2025, Dr. Ho Kyeom Kim and Dr. Richard Moat from the School of Engineering & Innovation (E&I) visited the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) in South Korea…

OU researchers find Saturn’s radiation can form molecules for life on its icy moon

10 Sep 2025

Scientists from the OU have helped find that organic molecules found in plumes from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus could be formed by radiation on the moon’s surface, not just in…