 So hello, I'm Kevin Shakespeare, I'm the Pro Vice-Chancellor at the Open University for Research, Enterprise and Scholarship and I'm here to tell you about a new research plan that we're setting up that's going to make a real commitment to making a change for society through a series of society challenges. So the background to this is that the university has got a fantastic mission and we obviously make a huge impact on the lives of people through the education that we do and opening up opportunities across society. We also do a lot of excellent research which has an impact on the lives of people in all four nations of the UK and globally. So for example we do lots of research in the area of sustainability in the environment, in space and the use of technology in space. We've got a lot of work on health and wellbeing and particularly inequalities experienced within that. We do work on how we can do education in radically different ways particularly using technology and we also are working on global projects again with an emphasis on making opportunities open to everybody. So in the period where we're trying to recover from COVID and with lots of changes across the world happening very rapidly it's more important than ever for the Open University to make a commitment to use our research to help people and so we're opening up a really big engagement with the OU family which includes all of our students, all of our staff, our alumni and our partners that work with us and we're asking all of you what are the big societal challenges that you think we should focus some of our research onto. So we've got a survey, we'd love everybody to spend a few minutes telling us about the areas you think you should work on and I really want to make it clear today that this invitation is to everybody regardless of whether you're involved directly in research but whatever you do you've got a say and you've got a stake in the future of our societal challenges. So the survey is going to open and after a few months we're going to listen to what we've heard and then we're going to form some teams that are going to look at how we can use a process called the theory of change in which we define some problems that need to be solved, we understand who these problems affect and how we can help them and then we create projects that look to address these challenges. Now some of these challenges will take many many years for us to tackle and we're going to need to collaborate widely but the starting point that we're kicking off now is to really ask you what do you think the focus areas could be. So I really look forward to working with everyone across the open university on this I'm committed to making this a big open engagement leading to some really interesting research which has an impact on all of our societies.