An Open University led research review has identified inequity during the early career period for female doctoral graduates inside and outside academia.

The Open University has received funding in excess of £1.5 million from Teledyne e2v for phase five of a collaboration agreement that sponsors blue skies OU research in advanced detector technology for space imaging.

The Open University has received £340,000 funding from the Leverhulme Trust to look into anti-Catholicism in the UK and Ireland since 1945.

The Open University has become a signatory of the Charter for Inclusive Entrepreneurship launched by the University of Nottingham to remove barriers to entrepreneurship for under-represented social groups.