PT Anywhere, a flagship KMi technology, has played a vital role in remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several universities from across the world have incorporated PT Anywhere in their curricula and have been using it for remote laboratory sessions with their students. PT Anywhere is also featured in the UK Government’s Digital…
Modern world conflicts are increasingly influenced by misinformation and propaganda. Martino Mensio from the Social Data Group at KMi collected over 800 claims so far about the Russian invasion of Ukraine that were debunked or flagged as unreliable by many registered fact-checking organisations around the world. Gregoire Burel then began monitoring the appearance of these…
Joseph Kwarteng, a second-year PhD student in the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), has launched Misogynoir Online, a website that invites Black women to share their stories of misogynoir by posting them on the platform. The term ‘Misogynoir’ was coined in 2008 by Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey. It is used to describe the unique…
Happy International Women’s Day 2022! This year’s theme is #BreakTheBias and we invite you to join in the many missions in KMi and around The Open University. KMi’s IWD 2022 celebrations For this year’s celebrations, we have created an all-new #BreakTheBias page where all KMi members were invited to make a pledge to make…
THE Campus is a platform that Times Higher Education launched; THE Campus presents advice from academics and professionals on an international perspective in key areas of higher education. From teaching and learning; equity, diversity and inclusion; internationalisation; Sustainable Development Goals; early-career research and research management. John Domingue discusses ever-growing Interdisciplinary research and its challenges. Domingue’s…
The EDSA project has been featured in the European Data Market study 2021-2023. The latest European Data Market study demonstrates that the demand for data professionals is expected to grow with 8.7% in the next 5 years, while in 2019 there were an estimated six million data professionals in the EU27. However, still as a…
What could you tell us about your research? My research is about intersectionality in hate speech detection, focusing on "Misogynoir" – a particular kind of hate that black women experience. Moya Bailey coined the term "Misogynoir" to describe "the specific hatred, dislike, distrust, and prejudice directed toward Black women". It is misogyny against black women…
This week’s Spotlight Interview features Kaushal Kumar, a recipient of our Summer Scholarship, who tells us about the 6-week project he is doing in KMi. Kaushal is a Sixth Form Student studying Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Further Maths and he starts his final year in September. He hopes to study either Mechanical Engineering or Main…
In this week’s summer series of Spotlight Interviews with KMi people, Pasquale Iero tells us about his work in KMi What is your role? I joined KMi as a Research Assistant in 2019 after nearly two decades of working in the software industry. I support the researchers in the Open Blockchain Research Team. My tasks may…
As part of our summer series of interviews with KMi people, this week’s spotlight falls on Zeeshan Jan, PhD Student What are you researching right now? I am in the final phase of conducting my research about the academic peer-reviewing process, which is thesis write-up. The peer-reviewing process is perceived as the backbone of academic…
