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Latest KMi AI research presented at the OU FAIESTA
Thursday 9 Oct 2025
Can responsible AI transform education and boost student success? This question took centre stage at the online hands-on session showcasing the outcomes of two innovative KMi research projects: AIDA (AI Digital Assistant) and SAGE-RAI (Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI). Alexander Mikroyannidis and Aisling Third chaired the session and engaged with participants into discussions about the...
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KMi secured a new UKRI Metascience project to assess UK’s competitiveness in research
Thursday 9 Oct 2025
KMi secured a new research project “Tracking Stars and Unicorns” funded by the UKRI Metascience unit, with an award of £310,646, to look at successful and unsuccessful proposals within all UKRI councils to track research trends, assess UK competitiveness against global competitors, and understand appropriate funding mechanisms to better support the development of Early Career...
KMi nets £106k UKRI grant to put AI in the grant-review driving seat
Wednesday 8 Oct 2025
KMi researchers have secured £106,078 from UKRI’s Metascience Unit to explore how large language models can streamline grant peer review without diluting fairness. The 12-month project, led by Prof Petr Knoth and Dr Francesco Osborne in partnership with Sheffield and Salford universities, will test four AI roles: triaging low-quality proposals, acting as a third reviewer,...
Closing the gap: Vaclav Bayer’s PhD shows how Learning Analytics can help to make education more equitable
Monday 6 Oct 2025
Vaclav Bayer, who joined KMi as a part-time doctoral student in 2020, successfully defended his thesis on 9 September 2025. His work asks a single, urgent question: can the data we already collect about students be used to tackle the issue of awarding gaps that negatively impact our marginalised students? Awarding gaps – the unexplained...
MK Tech Week: OU hosts ‘Building Safer Digital Futures’ – uniting researchers, MPs and community to end online violence against women
Thursday 2 Oct 2025
As part of Milton Keynes Tech Week, the Centre for Protecting Women Online ran the event “Building Safer Digital Futures: Responsible AI and Tech to Protect Women Online” at The Open University. Emily Darlington MP opened the programme with a powerful keynote, sharing personal experiences and highlighting why tackling online violence against women and girls remains such...
Tuesday September 23rd, as part of MK Tech Week 2025 and alongside Esther Spring, KMi’s Prof. John Domingue chaired a conference in our Hub Theatre, sponsored by Infosys, which welcomed 150 educators, policy-makers, artists and technologists to explore how artificial intelligence can widen—rather than disrupt—opportunities for adult learners. Opened by Emily Darlington MP and OU...
KMi at Dagstuhl: Open Scholarly Information SystemsLast week, Prof. Petr Knoth and Dr Angelo Salatino attended an invited prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar addressing the status quo, opportunities, and challenges of Open Scholarly Information Systems. Over the last 30 years, a wide range of open scholarly information systems have been developed to serve the scientific community. The seminar has been attended by representatives...
