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Breaking barriers: Teresa Sides explores AI adoption in primary care

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(Image caption: From left to right, Dr. Aislinn Bergin, Dr. Aisling Third, Dr. Simon Holland, Teresa Sides, Prof. Marian Petre.)

Teresa Sides has successfully defended her PhD viva on 6th November 2025. Her thesis, “Understanding the Barriers to AI Adoption Within Primary Care: A Novel Model for Acceptance and Resistance,” offers a timely investigation into why AI uptake in UK primary care remains limited despite growing policy support and technological capability. Teresa developed the Acceptance–Resistance…

CORE presents SoFAIR project at UNESCO

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Petr Knoth presenting

Last week saw CORE founder Professor Petr Knoth at UNESCO in Paris for the 2025 Software Heritage Symposium and summit. Professor Knoth was presenting the work undertaken in the first year of the SoFAIR project, a two-year multinational CHIST-ERA project. The Open University is working in conjunction with multiple partners including INRIA, Brno University of…