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OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences
Digital & Computing

OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences

...research has two strands: learning technologies and social computing. Professor Minocha will show how virtual worlds bridge time and places, interleaving the virtual with the real – allowing people to communicate and collaborate with those whom they may have never met, experience places they may never be able to visit, shop, learn, and do research. Professor Minocha...
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Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...research into the causes of the diseases, and development of treatments. It is often small charities and patient associations that tirelessly campaign to educate clinicians, research scientists, and the public, on these diseases. What causes rare diseases? Most rare diseases (thought to be around 80%) have an inheritable genetic origin. These include HD and CF, mentioned...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their wider ends and means; what makes useful knowledge in that specific field. Increasingly, the critical task for social scientists is to reflect...
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Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...research shows it is mothers who post more information about their children on social media – particularly when it comes to family photos. It’s also mothers who are largely the focus of disapproval and judgement for their sharenting. Those irritated by sharenting describe posts as “dull”, “repetitive” and “just plain annoying”. Some find it irritating...
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...research has moved beyond the sleep laboratory, generating a certain fascination with sleep among novelists as well as researchers in the humanities. To do this, Greaney formulates two suggestions: the first focuses on the “ongoing territorial dispute between art and science over the nature of sleep”. This debate revolves around questions such as how to study sleep...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...research project, based at The Open University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, plans to explore some of these questions. This two-year study will be working with Action for Children, a national voluntary organisation, to examine the relationships between male and female professionals and teenage boys in contact with welfare services. Underlying...
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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...research-based criteria, lower than that on paper. This has direct consequences for children’s learning. In our recent meta-analysis of previously published research on digital picture books for young children aged 1–8 years, we concluded that, without the right design, digital books are inferior to print versions. Low-quality digital books interfere with children’s...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...research that explores the social outcomes of home education. In particular, employment is an area of society that we know very little about when it comes to the home education community. Members of this community might be familiar with questions received by those who don’t home educate, regarding whether this mode of education adequately prepares young people for...
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