Research Awards
AOUG Foundation for Education Research Awards are given annually to research students who are nominated by their Supervisors. The AOUG Foundation for Education Trustees select recipients, who then receive their Awards at a Ceremony on the OU Campus..
The nine Awards are named after people who have played a significant role in the development of The Open University. Supervisors may nominate a student for any of the offered Awards, provided that the student in question has some significant aspects of their research within that curriculum area.
AOUG Vice-Chancellor Sir John Horlock Award for Science
John Horlock served as Vice-Chancellor at The Open University from 1981 to 1990. He was born in North London and went to school at Edmonton Latymer. He had decided …..read more.
AOUG Baroness Lee of Asheridge Award for Maths, Computing and Technology
Jennie Lee was born in Lochgelly, Fife. She was active in the Labour Party, became an MP in 1929 and following Labour’s win in the 1964 General Election, chaired the Parliamentary…..read more.
AOUG Chancellor Lord Asa Briggs Award for Arts
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, was born in Keighley, an industrial town on the edge of the moors in Yorkshire. He has become one of Britain’s most distinguished historians, with a wide range of…..read more.
AOUG Vice-Chancellor Lord Perry of Walton Award for Social Science
Walter Laing MacDonald Perry (deceased) was born in Dundee, educated at Ayr Academy, Dundee High School, and the University of St. Andrews, where he gained MB, ChB (1943), MD (1948) and DSc (1958) and was the first Vice-Chancellor…..read more.
AOUG Vice-Chancellor Sir John Daniel Award for Education and Language Studies
John Daniel served as The Open University’s Vice-Chancellor from 1990 to 2001. He was born in Surrey in 1942. After stints in Lancashire and Oxfordshire, he read Metallurgy at Oxford University …..read more.
AOUG Chancellor Baroness Boothroyd Award for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
Baroness Boothroyd was Chancellor of The Open University from 1995 to 2006. She was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, to textile workers……read more.
AOUG Vice-Chancellor Professor Brenda Gourley Award for Business Studies
Professor Brenda Gourley was Vice Chancellor of The Open University from 2002 to 2009 and before that she occupied the same position at one of South Africa’s largest universities, the University of Natal…..read more.
AOUG Vic Finkelstein Award for Health and Social Care
Vic Finkelstein was a ‘giant’ of the disability movement and credited with putting The Open University at the forefront of teaching and thinking about disability. He was born in South Africa and his experience of apartheid…..read more.
AOUG Will Swann Award for Innovation and Knowledge Development
Will Swann MBE, was Director Students at The Open University until his retirement in 2013 and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, in 2014, for his services to higher education……read more.
AOUG Jubilee Award for Mathematics & Computing
The Jubilee Award for Mathematics and Computing was established in 1991. There were only four winners of this Award with 2006 being the final year that the Jubilee ……read more.