Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - computer simulations
Discover how researchers build computer simulations to explore how children learn...Transcript.
Money & Business
Drugs and consumerism
...pricing, advertising and marketing...The OU's Dr Peter Bloom talks to Professor Gerard Hastings—the first UK Professor of Social Marketing and founder/director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research at Stirling and The Open University—about consumerism, marketing, and pricing, particularly around prescription drugs. Transcript...
Society, Politics & Law
Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
...research on issues of migration and narratives from those with backgrounds of seeking asylum. The Covid Chronicles from the Margins project explores the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of creative asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK and around the world. [Refugee cartoon, society matters] While the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean...
Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - cultural sensitivity
Discover why methods need to be culturally meaningful and sensitive to the experiences of the children taking part in research...Transcript.
Education & Development
Home education collection
...researchers, and policymakers who have a shared interest in the topic of home education, or elective home education within the UK and beyond...Find out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. [A young student is on their laptop studying with bookcases behind in the background] Home education, homeschooling or elective home education,...
History & The Arts
Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
...Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which art historians are responding to a changing world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely taught’, admits Sarah Victoria Turner, the current Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. As such, the...
Society, Politics & Law
Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
...children without fathers, schools without discipline and reward without effort’. He wasn’t the only one to see absent fathers as part of the problem: from across the political aisle, Tottenham MP David Lammy expressed anxiety about the kind of role models filling the ‘father-shaped hole’ in many young men’s lives. Even if we don’t go along with the notion that...
Education & Development
Childhood in the digital age
...researcher, Sue Bennett, which will help you to focus more on how children use this technology. Bennett (2012) suggests that technology refers not just to the physical hardware but also incorporates different functionalities such as communicating (texting, instant messaging), sharing (blogs), searching (Google), reporting (camera use) and socialising (social networking...