Associate Dean (Research) @OU_STEM, Prof of SW Engineering @OU_SEAD, @OpenUniversity, STEM learning advocate, school governor, uke player, All posts personal
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Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 retweeted
#BreakingNews TWO of STEM's Professors have been awarded the very prestigious Advance HE National Teaching Fellow!
Profs Carlton Wood and Diane Butler have earned this recognition for all their hard work in the HE sector! Click the link to learn more!
advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vi…
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We're proud to be part of @IFMKfest – a celebration of creativity, community, and culture with a series of inspiring events on our OU campus!
Come and see a different side of MK and learn more about what we do here at the OU!
Find out more: ow.ly/Ppge50WiRQS
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For over 50 years, The OU and the BBC have worked together to make learning accessible to all.
From groundbreaking documentaries to thought-provoking series, this collaboration continues to inspire and open up a world of possibilities.
connect.open.ac.uk/
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Join the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The Open University!
We’re hiring Lecturers in Statistics/Data Science
#JobOpportunity #Lecturer #DataScience #Statistics #HigherEd
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lectures…
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🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨
A fully funded PhD studentship at the OU, supported by Pet Plan Charitable Trust, explores Animal-Computer Interaction & AI to aid bio-detection dogs in cancer detection.
⏲️Oct 2025 | 📅 3 yrs | 🌍Milton Keynes
ow.ly/uQQt50UR6Vf
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The Open University has funded PhD positions as part of the BBSRC-NERC funded Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA).
The application deadline for Oct 2025 entry is Weds 29th Jan 2025 at midday.
For more details see shorturl.at/7ba0Z
Looking forward to an enjoyable evening of carols at St. Andrew’s Church in Yardley Hastings, featuring the @NSBSchool @NSBMusicDep Concordia Brass Quintet 🎶🎺
Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 retweeted
Introducing ILESLA - a new doctoral programme tackling societal and environmental challenges, funded by BBSRC & NERC. Led by Oxford, with the OU and other top institutions, it will train future research leaders in life and environmental sciences.
👉: ow.ly/2y4g50UmmZq
Looking forward to contributing to the Workshop on Responsible Software Engineering being held at @FSEconf in June 2025. Papers due in February 2025 😊
Introducing the first International Workshop on Responsible Software Engineering (ResponsibleSE 2025), organized by Irum Inayat, Ina Schieferdecker, Bashar Nuseibeh, Birgit Penzenstadler
Paper Due: 25 Feb 2025
Website: buff.ly/3OAyxn7
Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 retweeted
Introducing the first International Workshop on Responsible Software Engineering (ResponsibleSE 2025), organized by Irum Inayat, Ina Schieferdecker, Bashar Nuseibeh, Birgit Penzenstadler
Paper Due: 25 Feb 2025
Website: buff.ly/3OAyxn7
Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 retweeted
Exciting news! The 1st workshop on Protecting Women Online at #TheWebConf25 is here! Submissions open — deadline: Dec 18, 2024. tsww25.github.io/cfp.html
Join the fight to end #VAWG and create safer digital spaces. Let’s make an impact!
Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 retweeted
Very excited to announce the 1st workshop on Protecting Women Online! @TheWebConf #TheWebConf25 Submit your papers (long, short, position, idea or non-archival). Deadline 18th Dec! tsww25.github.io/cfp.html Would love to hear your ideas! stop #VAWG
🗓 Deadline: Dec 18, 2024
Arosha Bandara 💙 #ucuRising ✊🏽 retweeted
Prof. Anna de Liddo inaugural lecture “Rethinking collective decision-making in the age of social media dates” Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00 research.open.ac.uk/events/r…… #socialMedia #decisionMaking #collectiveAction #inaugural
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Meet OU research student Chengetai.
She's exploring new treatments for Candida infections and ways to prevent its spread with chemical disinfection. Her work could be a game-changer for public health!
Find out more: youtube.com/watch?v=qyits4iL…
#OUResearch #ChemistryWeek #NCW
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Our Enabling Space Exploration fund supports innovative projects like @OpenUniversity's study on heating lunar rocks for potential construction for Moon bases, and extracting resources such as oxygen and water. 🌔 💧
Learn more. 👇 space.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/17…
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If you work at a Higher Education Institution *in the UK*, please help us understand the use of responsible AI in your learning analytics solutions by completing this 10' survey or by sharing! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
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Join us?
(Permanent/tenured) Lecturer (assistant professor) position in Cyber Security at @OpenUniversity @OUComputing
@OU_SEAD
Deadline: 21st October 24
#academicJobs #job #vacancy jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer…
Grateful to have this opportunity to talk to the students at @UCSC_LK today. Was great to hear from students about their own thinking and plans to pursue research and I hope my talk was useful to guide this journey towards impactful and inclusive innovation. 😊🙏🏽
We are so greaful that prof @arosha from @OpenUniversity UK sharing his experience and insights on Inter/ Trans disciplinary research with our students at @UCSC_LK @ucscmedia
My apologies that the discussion time was cut short due to my being late - slept through my alarm due to jet lag! 🥲
Many thanks to @Dilrukshi_LK for hosting my visit and the students of the @TheOfficialACM student chapter at @UCSC_LK for their time (and thoughtful gift) 🙏🏽😊
ALT A mug depicting a traditional Sri Lankan procession, photographed on a marble counter.