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OU study: Transplant athletes match elite performance
A new study led by The Open University’s Professor Bart Rienties, and to be published in Progress in Transplantation in December, reveals that high-intensity transplant athletes can not only meet but greatly exceed existing physical activity guidelines.
OU gets £106k from UKRI for a project to assess AI-enhanced grant peer review
The Open University has secured £106,078 in funding to lead a new research project exploring how AI and large language models can transform the peer review process for research grants.
Research image of the month – amplifying voices through visual research
This month’s research image of the month (August 2025) encapsulates Dr Sara Calvo Martinez’s research on how community social enterprises can create inclusive, healing, and empowering spaces for marginalised groups.
Unlocking the secrets of pollen: OU’s role in a groundbreaking international digitisation project
In a transformative leap for the century-old science of palynology - the study of pollen - The Open University is helping in/contributing to a global effort to digitise and preserve one of the world’s most important botanical collections.
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