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The Open University at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2019
Sunday 8 Feb 2026
The “Living on the Moon” exhibit took place at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition last week and proved very popular, with an estimate of more than 10,000 visitors. The exhibit was created by a consortium of 5 UK institutions (The Open University, Birkbeck, Natural History Museum, Oxford University and Manchester University), bringing together lunar research...
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OU Vice-Chancellor visits KMi: A showcase of Innovation and Impact
Friday 6 Feb 2026
It was a great pleasure for KMi to welcome The Open University’s Vice-Chancellor; David Phoenix, on Wednesday 4 February. KMi gave the VC a tour of our flagship research and innovation around open science, communities and social impact, AI for teaching & learning, collective intelligence, student retention, and using AI to enhance OU operations and...
Explainable AI study on Education Equity awarded Best Paper at ICAITE 2025
Thursday 5 Feb 2026
A paper titled “Explainable AI Approach to Compare Predictive Drivers of Student Success for Disabled and Non-Disabled Learners”, authored by Dr Retno Larasati from the Shifting Power Project in KMi, received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Education (ICAITE 2025). The conference, an international gathering on AI and...
ClimateSense team wins top places in two international misinformation challenges
Monday 2 Feb 2026
KMi researchers, working with colleagues at EURECOM, have secured first place in two major international competitions focused on online misinformation. Their success comes as part of ClimateSense, a project developing new tools for understanding how scientific and political information circulates online. The team achieved top rankings in both the CLEF CheckThat! 2025 lab and the...
Assessing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Gender Pay Gap
Thursday 29 Jan 2026
A new KMi research project, funded by Responsible AI UK, is investigating the impact of AI innovations on the gender pay gap. Led by Prof Miriam Fernandez, the project brings together the Centre for Protecting Women Online in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino, The Fawcett Society, and Nokia Bell Labs. As AI continues to reshape...
George Wolf-Jackson has successfully completed his PhD, marking a significant contribution to research on cyber security awareness and behaviour change in the workplace. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof Chitra Balakrishna (School of Computing and Communications) and Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis (Knowledge Media Institute), addresses one of the most persistent challenges in cyber security: the human...
KMi at the Palace of Westminster: Exploring Blockchain for Society and EconomyOn 3rd December, KMi’s Aisling Third was invited to take part in an International Roundtable on Blockchain and Digital Assets at the Palace of Westminster, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Blockchain Technologies. The goal was to gather experts from across the world to give evidence to the APPG on ways in which...
