News & articles

This month’s (February 2025) research image of the month is from Dr Philip Seargeant, who specialises in sociolinguistics, with a particular interest in political storytelling.

The Open University has awarded funding through its Open Societal Challenges platform to support a groundbreaking research project in partnership with the charity Transforming Autism.

The Open University in Ireland, in partnership with the Institute of Educational Technology, has been awarded funding for the Peace of Mind project supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.

Open University academic Dr Jenny Douglas has been selected for a prestigious Accelerator Award from the Wellcome Trust. The grant of £ 153,273 will fund research into improving black women’s health and wellbeing in the UK.

Open University researchers are working with Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity on the future research agenda for palliative and end of life care.

In a significant boost to youth mental health initiatives, Verbal, a charity based in Londonderry and working across the island of Ireland, dedicated to improving wellbeing through storytelling, has secured £25k funding from the Open Societal Challenges grant for their innovative project, "Beyond ‘Liking’ or ‘Not Liking’: Co-Created Stories for Social Media Resilience."

Suffolk Mind, an independent mental health charity, has been awarded an Open Societal Challenges (OSC) funding grant to undertake a new research project which aims to address low response rates and the under-representation of mental health service users in research and evaluation activities.

Open University researchers have produced new evidence which suggests that disadvantaged and vulnerable young people benefit from supported nature-focused activities.

CONNECT 2030, an international project led by Dr Alexandra Okada from The Open University, earned UNESCO recognition as a top three global initiative in digital education transformation at the 2024 Global Education Meeting in Fortaleza.

The Ruth Strauss Foundation (RSF) has been awarded funding through the Open Societal Challenges competition to support a pioneering research project aimed at improving the wellbeing of individuals and families affected by non-smoking-related lung cancer (NSLC).