We're excited to welcome our Oct #OUGradSch25 PhD cohort to campus today! We can’t wait to hear about their research journeys. On Fri, we’ll also welcome Professional Doctorate students. Also welcome to the first PhD by Distance Learning cohort! @oulibrary.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social

Service Co-design week-notes 126. The one where we took a little holiday. It is also today the anniversary of the birth of John H.Harvey who gave us attribution theory. Very applicable to service design. Have a good week 😊🤩 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #research #psychology

A big warm welcome in Thursday. This week in both practice and research I’ve been thinking a lot about behavioural design in service design. When used positively it can be so empowering. Have a good rest of your week being inspiring and being inspired 😊🤩 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research

It was an absolute joy to attend this morning's @openuniversity.bsky.social graduation! Congratulations to all who graduated - including our very own #GraceRichards We’re very proud of you! #OUFamily @ougradsch.bsky.social #SPS #OUSTEM 🍾🥂🍾

Did you know the Library has a dedicated common room for postgraduate researchers? Available 24/7, it’s the ideal spot to: 💻 Work in a relaxed space ☕ Recharge with a coffee (or a nap, we won’t tell)😴 ⚽️ Have a game of table football Take a look 👉 youtube.com/shorts/kW31K... @ougradsch.bsky.social

Too good not to share, thanks @geologyclare.bsky.social ! @ougradsch.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhD #ResearcherDevelopment www.youtube.com/watch?v=whre...

Service Co-design practice and research week-notes 123. Apparently it’s buy a book 📕 day, not difficult for me. It’s also the anniversary of the passing of Elton Mayo (1949). Very important study 🔬on the Hawthorne effect 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership

Oh this looks amazing! @ougradsch.bsky.social

Service co-design research and practice week-notes 115. The one where it was very warm again and definitely extremely busy. Now for a little rest 🪫 today, with a sprinkle of forward planning thrown in 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #servicedesign #codesign #designresearch #ux

Heritage Open Days return to The Open University from 17–19 Sept with campus tours, new exhibitions, a choir performance, and a brand-new Archive Cinema experience! 🤩 🎟️ Free to attend – tours require booking! 🔗 Full schedule & info: www.open.ac.uk/library/libr... #MiltonKeynes #Heritage

Welcome in Thursday. This weeks inspiration is design guiding principles in the form of the double and triple diamond 💎 💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #doublediamond #triplediamond #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #servicedesignthursday

A big warm welcome to Sunday 20th July for Service Co-design week-notes 116. Apparently it’s also Moon Day 🌓 and International Chess Day ♟️Hope you have a good week ahead 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign

Scotland could soon make history as the first UK nation to criminalise #ecocide aka severe, reckless harm to nature. In our latest blog, @jodiebettis.bsky.social a Grand Union Scholar at the #OpenUniversity discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent:

Happy World Industrial Design Day for Service Co-design week-notes 113. Here’s a good week for us all 😊🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #hcd #cx #ux #weeknotes #WIDD2025 #worldindustrialdesignday

More exciting news from @ougradsch.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social as Meng-Chin Tsai publishes a lead-authored paper, which explores planning + governance arrangements for greening + resilience in Taipei. This is one part of her thesis, which is taking shape! doi.org/10.1080/1523...

Welcome in Thursday. Hope you have a good rest of the week 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #customerjourney #behaviouraldata #behaviouraldesign #servicedesignthursday

On Saturday, I stood on a soapbox in Milton Keynes shopping centre and talked to the public about my research! It was great to engage with people about mending and sewing, especially the kids! @ougradsch.bsky.social @soapboxscience.bsky.social #soapboxsciMK25

Interested in science? Come and hear me and other amazing female scientists talk about our research on Saturday in Milton Keynes #soapboxsciMK25 @soapboxscience.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

This Saturday, I will be standing on a soapbox and talking about my research on mending. Come along and hear about (and see) darned socks, mending communities and more! #soapboxSciMK25 @soapboxscience.bsky.social mksoapboxscience.wordpress.com

Welcome in Sunday for Service Co-design week-notes 111. Hope you are able to have a rest, and have a good week ahead 🌞 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #hcd #cx #ux #weeknotes

I'm still buzzing from a wonderful day at the @openuniversity.bsky.social Dublin graduation ceremony on Friday to receive my Doctorate in Education. Thanks to everyone who supported me along the way #OUFamily @ougradsch.bsky.social

Lovely to hear from @zdmarriott.bsky.social about her path to a PhD and publication!

Many congratulations to Elisabetta Geromel-Lister (and her happy supervisor Prof Séverine Hubscher-Davidson) for submitting her thesis 'Tracing controversies in medical knowledge dissemination'. @openuniversity.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

Cakes and capes to celebrate #Pride2025 @openuniversity.bsky.social

New blog klaxon 📣 hope you like it - have a good Tuesday 😊 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #customerjourneys #blog

Welcome in Thursday. Apparently it’s also World Environment Day and so I will also be seeing what I can do to be beneficial. Have a good rest of your week 😊🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign

Service Co-design week-notes 109. As it’s #cancersurvivorsday I will be reflecting on all the amazing people who have got me where I am today (post stem cell transplant for relapsed Hodgkin’s Lymphoma). Have a good week everyone 🎢😊 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership

🗣️ Talking Race: From Discomfort to Disruptive Action | GCSJ Research Festival ⏳4 June | 3:15–4:30PM From Grenfell to global discourse, from lived experience to academic insight - explore the work of OU's Racial Justice Working Group 👉 tinyurl.com/y2tmtcw9 #racialjustice @ougradsch.bsky.social

I’ve finally submitted my #PhD thesis about urban woodland #butterflies! It has been one of the most challenging but fulfilling experience of my life. The past year being especially difficult, but I would do it over again… just so happens that I never have to!! @ougradsch.bsky.social

The @ougradsch.bsky.social 'Position Statement and Guidance on Generative AI and Doctoral Education' is now available: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res... The advice is in the context of a fast-paced changing landscape. It emphasises openness re. #GenAI at all stages of the #thesis. #OpenUniversity

At the @iaeaorg.bsky.social International Conference on Stakeholder Engagement for Nuclear Power Programmes this week. Sally Njogu of @ougradsch.bsky.social doing a great job of introducing a framework to guide risk governance for decommissioning of nuclear sites. #LetsTalkNuclear #TrustTheDialogue

‘This book … is immensely powerful and immensely ambitious; its ambition held in the way it maintains, with real deftness, both the centripetal and the centrifugal.’ - Ian Pople www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

Service Co-Design week-notes 108. The one where I got a research talk rejection. I now call these ‘kintsugi moments’ where I learn to repair what’s not working 🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #cx #weeknotes

Get ready for 📡keynotes📡 at our 3rd GCSJ Research Festival June 4-6! 1️⃣Keynote 1 by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya 2️⃣Keynote 2 by Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro 3️⃣Many more conversations on locating and challenging power & creative approaches @gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

Thank-you to @ougradsch.bsky.social for asking me to share some of my research and experiences of the PhD process. #philsky #phd #phdlife #phdstudent #philosophy www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyo...

‼️Tomorrow, Friday 12-1pm - Join our GCSJ roundtable on 'Disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship' 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566237 #elections #citizenship #research @gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

Happy Thursday. This weeks inspiration has been emotions, empathy and empowerment. Have a good rest of the week 😀💎 #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #hcd #ux #cx #servicedesignthursday

Postgraduate research students out in force for the @openuniversity.bsky.social running club’s annual Les Irvine Memorial Relay Race. Step forward Dashtrobiology, Lava Cryo Flow, CosmoChemSquad, BIGS & two other amazingly named teams, battling for glory on the 4 x 1.1 mile course on the River Ouzel.

🚨 The countdown is on! Join us for the 3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival – three days of keynotes, seminars & thought-provoking sessions on power, justice, migration, gender & more. 📅 4–6 June 2025 🧠 Hybrid & Online 🌐 fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events #research #SocialJustice

The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2025 is currently open & the deadline extended to *16 May*! This survey is for PhD, MPhil, EdD & DHSC students across the OU to tell us what they think about their doctoral experience. They will have received bespoke links by email - contact us if not.

Service Co-design week-notes 106. Apparently it’s Twilight Zone day every year on May 11th. Have a good week everyone 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #hcd #cx #ux #customerjourneys #weeknotes

The @ougradsch.bsky.social will soon be sharing its 'Position Statement & Guidance' on #AI in #DoctoralWriting, co-authored by me {JM} & aimed at doctoral researchers, supervisors, and examiners. The guidance will inform our #PACEspace Workshops, Writing Circles, and 1-1 Consultations #AcWri [1/2]

Catching up with Feb PhD starter Jon (project: Hydroelectric power generation) "I genuinely couldn’t be happier with how things are going. The experience so far has been incredibly rewarding. My supervisors are amazing, very helpful, approachable & always encouraging." www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The second paper from my PhD research went live today! Want to know more about modelling mesoscale meteorology on Mars to see what it can tell us about the formation of fluvial features? Here’s the place: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Thursday 🤩 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #hcd #cx #ux #servicedesignthursday

Last chance to apply for Santander Scholarship Student £10k Prize Draw 2025 (deadline 8 May at 23:00 GMT) - check out this PGR Community Team post teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...

Embarking on your fieldwork soon? We've added a checklist and timeline to our fieldwork and gathering data page: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res...

Service Co-design week-notes 104. The one where I turn 2. Well my week-notes did. Here’s to a good week 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #designleadership #designresearch #designpsychology #hcd #humancentreddesign #ux #cx #productowner #weeknotes

Thanks to the @floodplainmead.bsky.social team for hosting a group from @ougradsch.bsky.social last week! We learned loads of botanical facts and it's always lovely to put some of our students' rather abstract PhD titles into context 🤩

Think I'm still in shock from passing my viva with no corrections yesterday. I couldn't have done it without the amazing support of my supervisors @markpinder.bsky.social and Alex Barber and @ougradsch.bsky.social. Thank-you to @literarti.bsky.social and Derek Matravers for being my examiners.