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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...research suggests the key disadvantaged group on which universities could have a quicker, and more transformative impact, are mature learners who are limited by personal circumstances to part-time study. These part-time students include everybody from adults who missed out at 18 and aspire for a second chance while working and learners with low or alternative entry...
Why do a project as part of your study?
Education & Development

Why do a project as part of your study?

...research, such as a PhD or EdD, is a really large project taking several years. It should make you an expert in your specialist area. In between these, there is often a project module taken in the final stages of an undergraduate degree. This might be referred to in some places as a ‘Final Year Project’, but at The Open University the timing is quite flexible. We...
Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys
Society, Politics & Law

Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys

...research into UK migration, citizenship and asylum policies and processes. It is also underpinned by extensive research into what Syrian asylum seekers’ journeys might look like – some of it secondary, from previously recorded interviews with Syrian asylum seekers, some of it primary, including conversations with individuals who facilitate asylum seekers’ journeys...
Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...research has indicated that there has been a significant negative impact on the homeless community. This has led the government to take action to criminalise the possession and supply of legal highs last year, but there remains an interesting debate regarding whether prohibition is the best way to tackle the misuse of drugs. This brief article gives an overview of the law...
How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...research shows that, although some survivors feel validated when former perpetrators join them at commemoration ceremonies, others fear that requiring former genocidaires to attend when they still don’t accept their guilt might result in a backlash. Some individuals attend kwibuka to support their neighbours but do not consider it their “own story.” Others consider...
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...research project is novel in that I Skype interviewed distance learners who engaged with another culture from the comfort of their own homes. Mind the culture gap! Previous studies have focussed on culture shock whereas my findings highlighted that distance learning may help reduce some of the barriers of being ‘culturally different’ that might exist in traditional...
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...centre. Such plots can be referred to as radial surface brightness profiles. The light is spread out over a number of pixels, despite the true angular size of the star being smaller than one image pixel. The way that light from a star is distributed across multiple pixels by a particular telescope is known as the telescope’s point-spread function (PSF). [Described...
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Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...research focuses on the current impacts of climate change on wildlife. Parmesan’s early research spanned multiple aspects of the behavior, ecology and evolution of insect/plant interactions in natural systems. The emergence of anthropogenic global warming as a major threat steered her research to focus on biological impacts of climate change in natural systems. Her...