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Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...Research Citizens’ Voices, People’s News: Making the Media Work for Wales An IWA report, in partnership with The Open University in Wales This research was commissioned by The Open University in Wales (OU) and the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA), who are working together with Welsh citizens to explore how access to, and understanding of, the media, news and...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...research has been conducted on this topic. In fact, it is only since the 1990s that social psychologists have turned their attention to the conspiracy theory phenomenon and scrutinised its psychological roots in a systematic way. Investigating the conspiracy theorist Much psychology research has focused on identifying factors which predispose certain individuals to...
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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...research or scholarship. Through structured activities introducing the 4D model of appreciative inquiry, you will use story techniques to identify existing strengths...This free course, An appreciative approach to inquiry, is designed to support groups of practitioners or individuals adopt an appreciative inquiry approach to reflecting, questioning, and developing their...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...Research in this area has grown over the last two decades with Professor Sophia Jowett, the leading researcher in this field, investigating the content and nature of coach–athlete relationships since the early 2000s. How we define this relationship has changed over time, but in the main it considers a social situation for the coach and athlete that is continually shaped...
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Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?
Digital & Computing

Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?

...research shows talking on a hands-free phone while driving is just as dangerous as using a handset. In fact, drivers remain dangerously distracted even after they’ve hung up. Thankfully, this message is starting to get through, as the ASA’s decision shows. But the fact that the advert was made in the first place, that in-car, hands-free technology is readily available...
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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...children. Whereas large families with four or more children were common across Europe at the turn of the century, in the interwar years the presence of such families declined in western Europe (for example, the average number of children born per marriage in Germany dropped from 4.7 before 1905 to 2 in 1925–29), a trend that both intensified and spread to southern and...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...research will tell you that unfortunately neither human emotions nor behaviour can be predicted by neat equations. But that doesn’t mean we lack any information about seasonal variations, mood swings and its deleterious effects. Research on suicide does reveal seasonal fluctuations, though it is not the cold, bleak months of winter that presage the despair associated...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...research into decision-making in the legal context that people make mistakes and they are sometimes subject to influences that we find objectionable. One way to identify such shortcomings is to do empirical research where we manipulate the counterfactuals (eg, by having one scenario with the item of interest and one without) and to repeat the research a number of times...
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