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Building trust and understanding: Reflections on a caseCopyrighted Image Sacha Mirzoeff

25 January 2012

How do you go about supporting a couple and children through a difficult time - with a camera crew in tow? Social Worker Annie Sempill... Read more : Building trust and understanding: Reflections on a case

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The social Olympian: Family and geographyCreative Commons Image pyrat_wesly under CC-BY-NC

By Ben Oakley (The Open University)

16 September 2011

Ben Oakley explores some of the social factors significant in developing top sports people. Read more : The social Olympian: Family and geography

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The gap that lovers must fill: What exactly is a 'conventional' relationship?Copyrighted Image Steven Pepple | Dreamstime.com

By Dr Meg Barker (The Open University)

24 August 2011

As Thinking Allowed explores home life, does our idea of what a proper relationship is like match up to the way we really live? Read more : The gap that lovers must fill: What exactly is a 'conventional' relationship?

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Family-friendly employment and the dream of the work-life balanceZoran Karapancev | Dreamstime.com

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

24 June 2011

Getting a balance between work and life is an attractive idea - but you've got to be able to separate them in order to balance... Read more : Family-friendly employment and the dream of the work-life balance

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By The Electric Dreams webteam (The Open University)

06 March 2011

How has technology transformed our homes, and what has it done to our families? Read more : OU on the BBC: Electric Dreams

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Darwin Now pod 7: Evolution and the human family Featuring: audio, Jupiter Images

By Rissa De La Paz (The Open University), Professor Ruth Mace (Guest)

17 November 2009

What can evolution tell us about falling birth rates, the menopause or the role of parents in childcare? Biological anthropologist Ruth Mace highlights the interplay... Read more : Darwin Now pod 7: Evolution and the human family

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Darwin Now: Life through poetry... Featuring: video, The Open University/The British Council

By Ruth Padel (Guest)

05 October 2009

Poet Ruth Padel is a great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She recalls the impact of family ties that were enlivened by a curiosity about nature.... Read more : Darwin Now: Life through poetry...

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Technology for lifeOU

By Professor Elizabeth Silva (The Open University)

25 September 2009

How technology affects our everday lives becomes so much more apparent when a disruption to "usual service" occurs. Professor Elizabeth Silva explores further Read more : Technology for life

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By Dr Ian Johnston (The Open University)

25 September 2009

The last 40 years have seen technological advances reshape and revolutionise our world. In a groundbreaking three-part TV project, a typical family will experience these... Read more : Inside the time machine

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By Professor Elizabeth Silva (The Open University)

25 September 2009

Have advances in technology ruined family life? Elizabeth Silva, Professor in Sociology at The Open University, discusses in this interview for Ozone magazine Read more : Family vs technology

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Pages tagged as Family

Building trust and understanding: Reflections on a caseCopyrighted Image Sacha Mirzoeff

The social Olympian: Family and geographyCreative Commons Image pyrat_wesly under CC-BY-NC

The gap that lovers must fill: What exactly is a 'conventional' relationship?Copyrighted Image Steven Pepple | Dreamstime.com

Family-friendly employment and the dream of the work-life balanceZoran Karapancev | Dreamstime.com

OU on the BBC: Electric DreamsCreative Commons Image Herr Popp under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

Darwin Now pod 7: Evolution and the human family Featuring: audio, Jupiter Images

Darwin Now: Life through poetry... Featuring: video, The Open University/The British Council

Technology for lifeOU

Inside the time machineCreative Commons Image mscolly via Flickr

Family vs technologyJupiter Images