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New £1 million grant to study space weather
We are delighted to announce that a team of researchers led by Dr Matthew Soman, Space Instrumentation Research Fellow, in the School of Physical...
‘A Blue Planet to a Frozen Desert’ talk video available online
The recording of Professor Stephen Lewis' talk: A Blue Planet to a Frozen Desert, Exploring the Environments of Venus, Earth and Mars, is...
SPS researchers at UK Space Conference 2019
Ben Dryer, Thomas Buggey, Oliver Hetherington, Chiaki Crews, Martyna Hodges, Martine Harvey, James Endicott and Andrew Holland represented a cross...
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...
Dr Andrew Aldrin visits the School of Physical Sciences
At the start of October we were delighted to welcome Dr Andrew Aldin on a visit to the School of Physical Sciences. Dr Aldrin is the...
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...
Royal Scottish Geographical Society ‘Inspiring People’ talk series including Mahesh Anand
In February, Dr Mahesh Anand, Reader in Planetary Science and Exploration, will be speaking in Scotland as part of a series of talks...
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...
Launch of Chandrayaan-2: CEI involvement in mission science
The Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) in the School of Physical Sciences was involved in development of the X-ray detectors for the CLASS XRF...
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...