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Exploring Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring Psychology

...researching topics like this in social psychology? The audio tracks feature disabled people who reflect on how disability has affected their sense of identity. Also featured are the cases of twins who didn't grow up together, people coping with memory loss, and the famous case of the soprano Lisa-Lee who discovered in her twenties that a rare genetic disorder meant she...
Audio 1 hr 33 mins
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology Professor Stephen Hawking was an inspiration to me to become not just a scientist but a communicator of that science. His work as a cosmologist, and discoveries in black hole physics were legendary. His best-known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable...
Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

...research and theorising. Until recently it was thought that Ireland and the rest of the British Isles had been linked by a land bridge which was submerged as sea levels rose. Very recent research suggests that this bridge did not exist and this has implications for Ireland’s biodiversity – if there was no land bridge, how did species arrive after the last Ice Age? For...
Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...research into feedback, Valerie Shute defines feedback as information communicated with the intention of changing the other person’s behaviour or thinking to improve learning and performance. It is usually given to the person in response to behaviour, processes, or effectiveness: on the ‘how’ things have been done or ‘what’ has been done (Besieux, 2017). Shute...
Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

Research shows the first causal evidence that dynastic family firms have worse management practices, says Daniela Scur...[Alexander Robertson and Sons] Alexander Robertson & Sons, founder and next generation of Clydeside ship-builders, photographed in the 1920s Family firms are the most prevalent type of firm in the world. This is especially true in emerging economies,...
Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War
History & The Arts

Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War

...research on anti-nuclear and peace activism, it’s striking how far the actions and campaigns of individuals and groups of citizens are noticed by policymakers, who need to respond. In some cases, this means addressing their concerns; in others it means trying to mollify them; sometimes it’s much more antagonistic. But overall, it is encouraging to see the impact we...
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...research are highly relevant to the ways in which people relate to political processes and structures. This can aid understanding of how such structures and processes function (or not!). Likewise, the political is an important aspect of social worlds, and therefore the political has much to reveal about the relationship between the individual and the social, which is a...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...research in many areas of computing and in other science-based disciplines. The workflow is lightweight but structures any future research you may do – for instance, as part of other taught or research modules – and will underpin your studies as you progress through the programme...An introduction to software development: 8.1.1 Preparation - There are many tools...