{"id":149,"date":"2026-08-01T18:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:09:36","slug":"research-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/research\/research-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Research in C&C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research in the School of Computing and Communications is committed to Integrating technology effectively into our lives. We address real problems that matter to a society where computing is increasingly ubiquitous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"AI
<\/i>

AI and Interdisciplinary Modelling (AI\/IM)<\/h3>

Explore this STEM research group and discover its work, people and related projects.<\/p><\/div><\/a>

\"computing-and-communications\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Critical
<\/i>

Critical information studies<\/h3>

Explore this STEM research group and discover its work, people and related projects.<\/p><\/div><\/a>

\"computing-and-communications\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Interaction
<\/i>

Interaction Design<\/h3>

Explore this STEM research group and discover its work, people and related projects.<\/p><\/div><\/a>

\"computing-and-communications\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Next
<\/i>

Next generation multimedia and networking technologies<\/h3>

Explore this STEM research group and discover its work, people and related projects.<\/p><\/div><\/a>

\"computing-and-communications\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Software
<\/i>

Software engineering and design<\/h3>

The Software Engineering and Design group investigates and develops systematic approaches for engineering secure, adaptive and usable software systems in a complex and changing world.<\/p><\/div><\/a>

\"computing-and-communications\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Technology
<\/i>

Technology and education research group<\/h3>

The group researches: the use of technology for teaching and learning; and the teaching and learning of technology.<\/p><\/div><\/a>

\"computing-and-communications\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Computing research across The Open University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching underpinned by research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Open University doesn\u2019t just teach: it\u2019s a global leader in research and innovation too, with OU research and development ranking in the top third of UK universities. The Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics has a long and distinguished record of conducting high quality, internationally leading research. These researchers contribute to our state of the art curriculum material ensuring our teaching is up to date, informed by scientific research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can get a flavour of our research from our published research papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director of Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

\n \n \"Paul\n
\n <\/i>\n

Paul Piwek<\/h3>\n

Director of Research<\/p>\n \n \"Computing\n \"\"\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research in the School of Computing and Communications is committed to Integrating technology effectively into our lives. We address real problems that matter to a society where computing is increasingly ubiquitous. Computing research across The Open University Teaching underpinned by research The Open University doesn\u2019t just teach: it\u2019s a global leader in research and innovation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_unity_review_frequency":"yearly","_unity_review_next_due":1821792717,"_unity_review_reset_requested":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/211"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}