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Hear about the early years of the OU from someone who was there
In January we were delighted to welcome Professor Emeritus of Physics, Russell Stannard, back to the Open University to speak about his personal...
Physical Sciences Outreach Officer writes new planetarium show narrated by Lupita Nyong’o
We are delighted to announce that our Outreach and Public Engagement Officer, Dr Natalie Starkey, has just completed a year-long project...
Announcing the winners of the SPS Outreach and Public Engagement Awards
We are delighted to announce the winners of the first ever School of Physical Sciences Outreach and Public Engagement Awards. The following...
Mercury Transit
On Monday 11th November 2019 over 100 Walton Hall based staff and students got a chance to view a rare astronomical event, the passing of the planet...
Professor Monica Grady at BlueDot festival
Monica Grady, Professor in Planetary Sciences, spoke this summer at the Bluedot festival, held annually since 2016 at Jodrell Bank Observatory in...
Graduation ceremony in Belfast
October has been a busy month already for the School of Physical Sciences and it was great that we started off on such a positive note by...
SPS successes at Research Excellence Awards
This month saw the annual Open University Research Excellence Awards take place, held at the MK DoubleTree Hilton Hotel at the MKDons Stadium in...
Recorded lecture: Citizen Science and the Data Avalanche
Stephen Serjeant, Professor of Astronomy, recently gave an evenning lecture as part of our 'Open University at 50' celebrations entitled 'Citizen...
Professor Monica Grady ‘1969 And All That’ talk
We welcomed Professor Monica Grady to the Berrill Lecture Theatre stage here at The Open University campus in Milton Keynes at the beginning of...
Tickets released for the next set of SPS OU@50 talks
We have an exciting set of talks coming up, presented by some of our academics in the School of Physical Sciences. These will be presented live on...
Sniffing the Solar System at Science Museum Lates in London
Geraint (Taff) Morgan and Simon Sheridan were at the Science Museum, London for Science Lates this week, which focussed on...
SPS PhD student Heidi Thiemann scoops poster prize at National Astronomy Meeting 2019
Congratulations to second year PhD student Heidi Thiemann who was awarded second prize in the Oxford University Press Poster Competition...