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Professor Alan Bassindale is Pro Vice Chancellor of the Open University's Research and Staff. He sees research as a vital component of the Open University's activities and crucial to excellence in teaching. He outlines the broad variety of fascinating research that's going on at the Open University at the moment.

He's currently researching silicon based "caged" molecules.

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February March April's guest speaker was Harry Kroto May's guest speaker was Alan Bassindale June's guest speaker was Neil Chalmers July's guest speaker was Jocelyn Bell Burnell August's guest speaker was Patrick Moore September's guest speaker was Susan Greenfield