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Congratulations to Dr Shuang Ao on successfully defending her PhD

08 Nov 2024

KMi is thrilled to announce that Shuang Ao has successfully defended her PhD on 22 October 2024. Her thesis, titled “Building Trustworthy AI: Uncertainty Quantification and Failure Detection in Large…

KMi’s OUAnalyse team honoured with the 2024 STEM Recognising Excellence Award for Groundbreaking Educational Innovations

10 Oct 2024

We are thrilled to announce that a team of researchers, technology developers, pedagogical experts and tutors from KMi and The Open University have been awarded the prestigious 2024 STEM Recognising…

Transforming Ideas into Impact: KMi tops £50M!

08 Oct 2024

KMi was founded in 1995, making this its 30th year. This year is particularly significant, not only because of the upcoming milestone anniversary but also because the external funding secured…

New Clues from Asteroid Ryugu reveal how Earth became a habitable planet

01 Oct 2024

Open University scientists Professor Ian Franchi and Dr Richard Greenwood have played a key role in new research that reveals clues about how Earth became a planet capable of supporting…

KMi’s Prof.Advaith Siddharthan received £922,000 grant to revolutionize science education with haptic touch experiences

25 Sep 2024

Prof. Advaith Siddharthan’s project, ‘Feeling the Untouchable: Haptic touch experiences for naturalistic learning,’ has secured a £922,000 grant to enhance sensory learning through touch. Collaborating with Imperial College London and…

Celebrating Excellence: Prof. Fernandez’s Impactful Leadership in PG Research Supervision

17 Sep 2024

KMi is thrilled to announce that one of our esteemed academics, Prof. Miriam Fernandez, has been honored with the STEM Research Excellence Award for her outstanding contributions to postgraduate research…

“My studies became a lifeline for me between hospital surgeries and treatments”

06 Sep 2024

Charlotte, who is registered disabled with Cerebral Palsy with Spastic Diplegia, gained a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in Medicinal Chemistry over eight years with The Open University…

“Thanks to the OU, I now have a career path which will still be in demand in 20 years’ time”

02 Sep 2024

A new prospect-filled career Alana Smith achieved good grades at school but, after pulling out of a graphic design degree and falling into a sales role she didn’t love, she’d…

Fieldcast team wins prestigious award

29 Aug 2024

The Fieldcast team, in which KMi’s Trevor Collins and Ben Hawkridge participate, won the Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) for their innovative use of Open University’s OpenSTEM…

KMi’s AI Module Writing Assistant shortlisted for best paper award

05 Aug 2024

KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Alexander Mikroyannidis has presented a paper at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT). This flagship educational technology conference is organised annually by the IEEE…

Riots, misinformation, and social media

04 Aug 2024

KMi’s Director; Prof Harith Alani, was interviewed by The National newspaper who sought his views on the role of misinformation in fueling the recent riots across the UK. Harith and…

“The OU’s flexibility suited me much better than a brick university”

31 Jul 2024

“I particularly liked the virtual laboratory … as not everyone can get to an on-campus laboratory” Natalie was a star student at school and began studying science at Aberdeen Medical…