The OU’s 2018-19 Annual Report, published this week, celebrates some of the highlights of an outstanding 50th anniversary year.
Executive Dean of the Business and Law Schools, Professor Devendra Kodwani,hosted a lecture for new and returning Business and Law School students Wednesday 20 November. This new initiative took place in the Berrill Theatre and for an online audience via YouTube Live.
In this Business Network Breakfast Briefing, OUBS PhD student Victoria Williams discussed invisible reproductive health conditions, such as endometriosis, and life-changing stages like menopause, and why industries should support employees with these conditions.
Look out for the survey invitation hitting your inboxes soon.
A six-part weekly series from the OU / BBC which is looking behind the scenes of one of the high street’s most well-known supermarkets, Sainsbury’s, hits our screens in a primetime slot.
A new free course, Understanding mortgages, has been produced by The Open University Business School in collaboration with the hugely popular MoneySavingExpert (MSE). The course, the first of six due to be made available over the coming months, recently launched on the OpenLearn digital platform.
The stories of three murder investigations and their extraordinary consequences are being told in a new three-part OU / BBC collaboration.
Presenters Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain’s imports and exports in a new three-part OU / BBC collaboration.
The Open University jointly hosted the ninth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (known as PCF9), together with the Commonwealth of Learning, at the historic Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh this week (9-12 September).
If the question ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ excites you, then two fully-funded PhD studentships within the OU’s Astrobiology Research Group may be just what you are searching for.

Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 10:00 to 16:30
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Join us at this year’s annual conference as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of CVSL. Together we’ll reflect on a decade of impact and look ahead to the next ten years, featuring insights and reflections from former CVSL directors.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 - 09:00 to Friday, September 4, 2026 - 17:00
University of Donja Gorica, Oktoih 1, Podgorica 81000, Montenegro
This academic conference hopes to draw feminist scholars, activists and communities together to consider what caring feminism across borders might mean now and for the future.