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- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKThesis status: I wish to boil my head
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UK@ougradsch.bsky.social proud of our PGRs at MoonNight in Milton Keynes tonight.
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKHappy eve of ‘Servoween’. This week I’ve been focused on, and inspired by Social Ecological Theory. This reminds us of the interplay between individuals, communities and societal systems. Have a good rest of the week everyone 🎃 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #design #research #psychology
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService co-design practice and research week-notes 131. The one when it’s the anniversary of the birth of John Loud who was the originator of the ballpoint pen. Talking about writing it’s also Academic Writing month. Have a good week 😊 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #phd
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKDespite my social battery running very low, I’ve had an enjoyable & engaging day at the #OOCDTP cohort event in Oxford! I’ve met some lovely people & I’m looking forward to seeing my #PhD through to completion alongside them! @oocdtp.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKAt #UKCGE EDI conference. Just been hearing about Black PhD Collective which looks like a great resource for Black PGRs. @ougradsch.bsky.social www.blackphdcollective.com
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKA big warm welcome to Thursday. This week I’ve been focused on service design, change and memory theory. It’s also the birthday 🎂 of Elizabeth Loftus who I continue to be inspired by. I wrote about her work a while back www.robertsbrain.co.uk/post/my-insp... @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKThis is fabulous & one of the many reasons I’m really proud to be an @openuniversity.bsky.social student! @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #NeverTooOld
- How lovely is this 😍 So proud to work for this amazing institution @openuniversity.bsky.social BBC News - Great-grandmother graduates university at 90 years old www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKCongratulations to PhD graduate Angelo Pinto on the publication of his book The Symphony as a Novel: Mahler's Tenth. www.lim.it/en/essay/693... @ougradsch.bsky.social #PhD
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKNothing like a lunchtime walk to blow some cobwebs away and get a run up to Friday afternoon. @ougradsch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKOU PGR coffee in the Common Room and online in the Community Team at 11 today ( and every Thursday). If you'd like to say hello drop by. @ougradsch.bsky.social
- Loving autumn on campus at Walton Hall at @openuniversity.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKJoining my first undergraduate tutorial for the @openuniversity.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social #PhD Teaching Scheme. A happy coincidence that the module I’m assigned to is #A340 - The Roman Empire, & I’m dialling in from the Eternal City itself - a great talking point! @drginamay.bsky.social
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService co-design practice and research week-notes 127. Today is world teacher’s day, and so to all those education heroes 🦸♀️ out there hope you have a particularly fabulous day 🍎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #designleadership #servicedesign #codesign #ux #cx #hcd
- 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKA 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKIt 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 🍾🥂🍾
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKDid 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKToo good not to share, thanks @geologyclare.bsky.social ! @ougradsch.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhD #ResearcherDevelopment www.youtube.com/watch?v=whre...
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKOh this looks amazing! @ougradsch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKHeritage 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKWelcome 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKA 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKScotland 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:
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKHappy 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKMore 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...
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKWelcome 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKOn 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKInterested 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKThis 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKWelcome 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKI'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!
- The Open University interviewed me for their Meet the Student feature! Learn more about pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing, and about my new book: www.linkedin.com/pulse/novel-...
- 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKNew blog klaxon 📣 hope you like it - have a good Tuesday 😊 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #phdlife #designresearch #designpsychology #servicedesign #codesign #customerjourneys #blog
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKWelcome 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UK🗣️ 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKI’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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKThe @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
- 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]
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKAt 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UK‘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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKGet 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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKThank-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...
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UK‼️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
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKHappy 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.
- And two last teams featuring PGRs. Well done all!
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UK🚨 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.
- Reposted by Open University Graduate School, UKService 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
