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MK Tech Week: OU hosts ‘Building Safer Digital Futures’ – uniting researchers, MPs and community to end online violence against women
As part of Milton Keynes Tech Week, the Centre for Protecting Women Online ran the event “Building Safer Digital Futures: Responsible AI and...
Beyond the buzzword: AI, inclusion and the future of adult learning
Tuesday September 23rd, as part of MK Tech Week 2025 and alongside Esther Spring, KMi’s Prof. John Domingue chaired a conference in our Hub...
KMi at Dagstuhl: Open Scholarly Information Systems
Last week, Prof. Petr Knoth and Dr Angelo Salatino attended an invited prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar addressing the status quo, opportunities,...
Shifting Power Hosts First “Thought Collective” on Queer AI in Margate
This summer, the Shifting Power project launched its first “Thought Collective” in Margate, Kent—an experimental workshop exploring the...
KMi claims Best Paper at ACM Hypertext 2025
KMi is delighted to announce that the paper “Literary Hypertext, AI and Google’s New Web: an Aesthetic Discussion”, by Alessio Antonini, Lucia...
International Colloquium of the Distance Learning Institute
In September 2025, Dr Nicole Lotz gave a keynote speech at the 4th International Colloquium of the Distance Learning Institute (DLI). Here, Nicole...
Patterns and Tilings: Beyond Aesthetics
Dr Iestyn Jowers (E&I) will be giving a short talk at the opening event of the City of Codes and Light festival on 01 October 2025. Organised by...
Korea Institute of Materials Science
In May 2025, Dr. Ho Kyeom Kim and Dr. Richard Moat from the School of Engineering & Innovation (E&I) visited the Korea Institute of...
KMi at the inaugural Centre for Protecting Women Online conference: Responsible AI for safer digital spaces
Last week, on the 10th and 11th of September, The Open University hosted the first annual conference of the Centre for Protecting Women...
OU researchers find Saturn’s radiation can form molecules for life on its icy moon
Scientists from the OU have helped find that organic molecules found in plumes from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus could be formed by radiation on...
KMi’s report from SEMANTiCS 2025
The 21st edition of the International Conference on Semantic Systems, commonly known as SEMANTiCS, took place in Vienna last week. This yearly event...
Rare Earth – Series 6
On Friday 22nd August 2025 the OU/BBC radio series, Rare Earth, returns with a sixth series. Academics from the OU STEM Faculty, including the...