Editing Open University (section)

== Notable current and former academics ==
{{See also|Category: Academics of the Open University}}
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File:Launch of IYA 2009, Paris - Grygar, Bell Burnell cropped.jpg|[[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] led the physics department at the OU for 10 years.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-06|title=Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins physics prize|url=https://ounews.co/science-mct/science-environment/dame-jocelyn-bell-burnell-wins-physics-prize/|access-date=2021-01-09|website=OU News|language=en-GB}}</ref>
File:Robin Wilson outside Gresham College - 23jun11.JPG|[[Robin Wilson (mathematician)|Robin Wilson]] is an emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics.
File:Colin Pillinger.jpg|[[Colin Pillinger]] was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at OU.
File:BrianSmall.png|[[Brian Goodwin]] worked as a professor of biology at the OU until his retirement in 1992.
File:Hall Stuart.jpg|[[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)|Stuart Hall]] was a professor of sociology at the OU for 18 years until his retirement in 1997.
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* [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] – astronomer
* [[Tim Benton]] – art historian
* [[Andrew Blowers (academic)|Andrew Blowers]] – geographer
* [[Neil Chalmers]] – zoologist
* [[Catherine Cooke]] – architectural historian
* [[Nigel Cross]] – design researcher
* [[Katharine Ellis]] – music historian
* [[Dimitra Fimi]] – Tolkien scholar
* [[Monica Grady]] – meteoricist
* [[Brian Goodwin]] – biologist
* [[David Gow (composer)|David Gow]] – composer
* [[Norman Gowar]] – mathematician
* [[Oswald Hanfling]] – philosopher
* [[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)|Stuart Hall]] – social scientist
* [[Christopher Hill (historian)|Christopher Hill]] – historian
* [[Arthur Marwick]] – historian
* [[Doreen Massey (geographer)|Doreen Massey]] – geographer
* [[Bob Moon (scholar)|Bob Moon]] – educationist
* [[John Naughton]] – technologist
* [[Oliver Penrose]] – mathematician
* [[Mike Pentz]] – physicist
* [[Colin Pillinger]] – planetary scientist
* [[Steven Rose]] – biologist
* [[David Gordon Scott]] - criminologist
* [[Russell Stannard]] – physicist
* [[Hilary Wainwright]] – sociologist
* [[Nigel Warburton]] – philosopher
* [[Clare Warren]] – geologist
* [[Margaret Wetherell]] – social psychologist
* [[Glenn White]] – astronomer
* [[Robin Wilson (mathematician)|Robin Wilson]] – mathematician
* [[John Zarnecki]] – space scientist