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Paid Student Internships

Wednesday 11 Nov 2026

Join our team: paid student internships Project: Led by Students, Built for Change – A Co‑Creation Approach to Increasing Black Student Enrolment on OU Access Modules Project leads: Sanjay Gandhi (Project Lead) and Dr Renu Bhandari (Co‑Lead) | Unit: AOCCI WELS | Delivery: Online (Microsoft Teams) We expect the project to run from January to […]

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Unlearning AI at Whitechapel Gallery

Tuesday 10 Nov 2026

Research Fellow Dr Justin Hunt (Co-PI Unlearning AI) was invited to the Whitechapel Gallery in London Friday 6 November to join a panel of artists, critics, and AI researchers for the AICA UK & Whitechapel series “Labour of Love.” AICA UK is one of the UK’s professional bodies for art writers and curators. With Whitechapel […]

 

OurAIwords: Co-creating clearer and more inclusive language for AI 

Thursday 29 Oct 2026

KMi’s Dr Nancy Pontika, has worked alongside project co-leads Professor Mirjam Hauck, Academic Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment, and Eleanor Moore, Senior Learning Designer, on Better Words for AI, an Open University project exploring how the language used to describe AI shapes understanding and participation.  Terms such as intelligence, learning, memory and […]

KMi showcases AI innovations during Jiangsu Open University visit

Friday 23 Oct 2026

The Open University welcomed this week a delegation from Jiangsu Open University for a two-day visit. During this visit, KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis gave the presentation “Promoting the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Teaching and Learning,” which highlighted KMi’s latest work on AI-enhanced education, including the AI Digital Assistant (AIDA), the AI […]

 

Growing up online: Young voices, digital futures

Thursday 22 Oct 2026

Last Friday, KMi hosted an event at The Open University as part of Milton Keynes Tech Week 2026, bringing together children aged 7 to 11 and their parents to talk about online safety.  Run by experts from the Centre for Protecting Women Online (CPWO) and the KMi, the session opened with a warm welcome from […]


KMi PhD student brings his research to Amazon

Tanay Aggarwal, a PhD student at KMi, has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist II for a 16-week internship in Seattle, where he will apply his doctoral research on artificial intelligence and information retrieval in an industrial setting. Tanay’s PhD, supervised by Dr Angelo Salatino, Dr Francesco Osborne, and Prof Enrico Motta, investigates how large […]

Rethinking AI in Higher Education through Metaheutagogy

KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis presented his latest work on AI-enhanced learning at the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online (HELMeTO 2026), held in Cagliari, Italy, from 28-30 September 2026. The conference brought together academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss advances in digital learning methodologies and technologies […]

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