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Circumstances are right for meaningful and fundamental change in the world of work. But what will that change look like – and what role will HR play in it? The People Space and The Open University Business School are partnering throughout 2021 to highlight the issues and suggest how HR can help work to become radically better. Siân Harrington and Katie Jacobs report

There are two new Heads of School in the Faculty of Business and Law (FBL). Professor Siv Vangen became Head of the Business School this week, while Professor Hakeem Yusuf will join the OU as Head of the Law School at the start of April.

A new eight-part series of the OU/BBC collaboration The Bottom Line on Radio 4, presented by OU honorary graduate Evan Davis, starts on Thursday 4 February.

The OU is the headline sponsor for a two-week multi-session virtual experience which starts on Monday 1 February, aimed at those interested in the future of education, the future of work and in lifelong learning.

Dr Anna Hopkins joined Policing Organisation and Practice Team as a Lecturer in November 2020

A blog post by Dr Zoe Lawson MBA alumna and a member of the OU Business School’s Alumni Council is ambition and is it good or bad?

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received regulatory approval for emergency use from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on 3 December. This came only months after a team of researchers led by Professor Zhang Yongzhen in Wuhan in early January made the genome sequence of Covid-19 publicly available.

Following the recent publication of her blog by Wonkhe Dr Hilary Collins, Senior Lecturer in Corporate Programmes with OUBS Executive Education, has been interviewed on ‘The experience of teaching during a pandemic’ as part of the Expert Talks for Cumulus Connects.

Social entrepreneur and MBA alumna Dr Zoe Lawson discusses how to build resilience during the pandemic. 

The disruption caused by Covid-19 has had far reaching impacts and required all of us to adapt to life’s challenges under lockdown. University law clinics are no exception and law academics and clinic supervisors have had to act fast and think creatively to keep their clinical programmes running.