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An exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Fellow is now **closed to applications**.

The University’s annual Research Excellence Awards recognise outstanding research and celebrate achievement within the OU research environment. In its third year, there were 138 submissions across the 12 categories.

Thomas Cheney and others will be attending the Secure World Foundation’s Summit for Space Sustainability being hosted at the Science Museum in London 22-3 June. This is the fourth Summit for Space Sustainability but the first to be held in the UK. It will be co-hosted by the UK Space agency and “is a high-level, multi-day event focused on developing solutions for space sustainability.” It has the theme “Global Priorities for Space Sustainability,” and “is a unique gathering of global stakeholders from government, industry, and civil society.

For more than two decades, Dr Geraint Morgan and colleagues in The Applied Science & Technology Group (ASTG) have used the OU's space know-how, from missions to explore the fabric of comets and Mars, to solve complex problems closer to home.

A new global service has been launched to provide near-real time monitoring of surface water at a significantly lower cost compared to existing technologies.

Last night Taff Morgan and Simona Nicoara presented their space technology translation work at the Science Museum Lates: Space.

The show-and-tell event was called “Sniffing the Solar System”  and was held in Information Age section of the museum.

******Applications now closed******

It’s called technology transfer, when innovations in one field are used with a different goal than the original purposes – often in a different industry.

Impacts can have a devastating effect on solid bodies like Earth and Mars, forming huge craters and, in the case of Earth, destroying life. However, impacts have played key role in the formation of terrestrial bodies, the evolution of planetary atmospheres and may have even had part to play in the development of life on Earth

We are thrilled to announce that our Microbiology Technician Apprentice Grace has passed her apprenticeship with a distinction.

Grace’s apprenticeship involved working in the labs doing regular tasks such as calibrating the pH meters, keeping the autoclaves and water baths clean etc.

Whilst COVID was happening she checked we had the chemicals people needed so they didn’t have to come onsite, and she instigated a process whereby she (helped by the wider team) ensured that everyone had a clean lab coat every week on their peg.