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As the pandemic continues to force students online, Dr Terry O'Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Management in the OU Business School, reminds us of the importance of what he calls 'the key barrier to learning online', time and how we manage it

As traditional face-to-face universities rethink how to provide community based legal support, Hugh McFaul, Director of The Open Justice Centre, highlights how the OU is helping to deliver online pro bono support, and reflects on the opportunities and challenges this creates

Dr Caroline Derry, Senior Lecturer in Law, raises awareness of the inequitable impact COVID-19 is having on women. This blog particularly highlights the experiences of victims of sexual offenses crimes, with many hearings now delayed until 2022

'Where can we find shards of light and start to rebuild our economy and prosperity? How can we innovate in new ways?'. These are just two of the questions explored in this blog written by Dr Clare Chambers-Jones, Senior Law Lecturer in the OU Law School

Keren Lloyd Bright, Senior Lecturer in Law and Louise Taylor, Lecturer in Law, highlight five reasons why the incidence and severity of coercive control has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Keren and Louise are based in the OU Law School

Allison Wolfreys is a Lecturer in Law in the OU Law School and a member of the European Children's Rights Unit at the University of Liverpool. Her latest paper 'COVID-19 and International Child Abduction: Children’s Stories' is now available

Mark Fenton O’Creevy is Professor of Organisational Behaviour in The Open University Business School. This blog explores what happens when events like the COVID-19 pandemic bring the provisional nature of our understanding of the world sharply into focus

Dr Jacqueline Baxter is Director for the Centre for Innovation in online Legal and Business Education (SCiLAB) at the OU Business School. In this blog, she shares tips for educators forced to teach online and explores the impact this can have on job satisfaction

Find out how The Open University Law School’s Open Justice Centre is sharing OU expertise in delivering world-leading online and distance learning in order to support the wider legal education sector in its time of need during the pandemic

Jedrzej George Frynas is Professor of Strategic Management in the OU Business School. In a webinar series co-organised with The Whole Thing Group, international business leaders explain how their businesses coped with, and innovated during, COVID-19