Blog 2025

Prof Mu Mu presented and joined the panel at the Arc Universities Group event on Responsible AI and Automation, hosted by The Open University and Cranfield University in Milton Keynes.

The provision of education for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is currently facing systemic challenges. In some local areas, the gap between strategic ambition and lived reality is stark, evidenced by nearly 7,000 school suspensions in one academic year. This crisi...

We are funded by Innovate UK and West Northamptonshire Council to pilot a new VR training tool for addiction recovery. Many parts of the UK face a worsening drug and alcohol addiction crisis, with rising deaths and hospital admissions. Alcohol-related deaths tripled and drug-related deaths double...

Following a feasibility and safety study with 5 participants over 25 sessions [1], we completed a clinical trial of VR EMDR specific phobias treatment with 17 participants (85 treatment sessions over 5 days) [2]. The completion of the trial is such an outstanding achievement of the team and the v...

I will be doing a talk and hosting a demo booth at Merged Futures 7. Life shouldn’t be limited by fear. Yet, for many, intense phobias – whether a paralysing fear of air travel that restricts careers and holidays, a dread of needles that compromises essential medical care, or a fear of insects th...