 The biggest research idea I'm working on at the moment is about the biggest question you can imagine at all. It's are we alone in the universe? Are we ourselves the only beings in the universe? And that's a space project, as you might expect. It's being funded by Research England, who are giving £6.7 million to the Open University. Obviously we've got a great record in space science. But we're only getting this research funding because of our work also in citizenship and governance. We've got a visiting professor of space law coming from Northumbria, Chris Newman. We've got Eddie Abbott-Halpin coming from Orkney University of the Highlands and Islands, who's an expert in human rights. And I'm working with them on what would law look like in space? And in particular, can we use space as a laboratory to resolve difficult issues of law, citizenship and governance here on earth? So everybody's heard that there are inventions through space which are helping us all. For instance our mobile phones, satellite communication, sat nav. But just imagining how you would resolve a dispute if a satellite is hit by a rocket set up by a private entrepreneur, who's responsible for that when it cuts out my sat nav on my mobile phone? Will that help us resolve tricky issues at home which are nothing to do with space, such as Brexit? Or again, there are these great conflicts of governance. So that is the most exciting project that anybody I think in any university could imagine having the privilege of working on.