The Open University is a world leader in modern distance learning, one of the largest Universities in Europe and has educated more than 1.85 million people worldwide since its launch in 1969. Its Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) is one of the leading education research units in the UK with its Education research environment ranked joint first in most recent national assessment of UK universities. CREET has an underpinning commitment to engage in participatory research and to deliver outcomes which support more socially just communities.

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