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The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future
Science, Maths & Technology

The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future

...research into sustainable chemistry is vital to reduce both the use of resources and the environmental impact of society on the planet...Find out more about The Open University's Chemistry courses. Sustainable use of resources must be considered because fossil fuels and other mined commodities are being depleted, and there is increasing demand from humanity. Achieving...
Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities
Money & Business

Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities

...research tending to look at more clearly defined positions. The purpose of this paper is to report on initial data from an on-going Leadership Foundation funded project investigating the role of Associate Dean in UK universities. To answer the study’s research questions, an embedded, sequential mixed methods design has been adopted. Read more: Exploring the role of...
From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements
Society, Politics & Law

From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements

...research, and have aimed at fostering learning through arts and digital arts as well as social engagement. The co-production of this work has been part of the knowledge exchange between academics and arts, and depended on encounters between artists and researchers, asking questions, exchanging stories, dispelling myths: “Literally,” as Áine O’Brien of Counterpoints...
Dr Matt Balme on modelling the landscape of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Dr Matt Balme on modelling the landscape of Mars

...research priority area, gives us a tour of his laboratory and shows how he models the landscape of Mars...Transcript On the subject of his latest research, Dr Matthew Balme, said: “Our team has been looking for potential landing sites for the ExoMars Rover – a European mission that will look for signs of ancient life on Mars. One of these sites is called Aram Dorsum...
Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...research in agriculture, medicine and industry. Measuring the Unmeasurable Combining genetics and statistics. Today's cutting edge research into the human genome uses Fisher's concept of maximum likelihood. The Quest for Certainty A Lonely Genius. Experts reveal the logic behind Fisher's ideas and their phenomenal legacy. Brink of a New Era Foundations for computer...
Imagining Scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Imagining Scientists

...researchers have explored stereotypes of scientists. During this time they have attempted to isolate the small number of essential, simplified criteria that represent a scientist. This work began in the 1950s when two cultural anthropologists, called Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux, drew on the perceptions of American high-school students to produce a image of a...
About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...researchers, politicians, business leaders and campaigners. These interviews have been recorded in support of the Stories of Change project. Roger has also drawn on the interviews for his BBC Radio series on climate change in advance of the key December 2015 climate talks at the 2015 Paris Conference of the Parties (‘COP21’). The £1.5m Stories of Change project has...
Reading and child development: The Our Story app: Introduction
Education & Development

Reading and child development: The Our Story app: Introduction

...research into children's literacy shaped the iPad and iPhone Our Story application?...A team of us at The Open University have been interested in applying research based knowledge to develop an app which is designed to be fun, but will also help children develop abilities they will need when they start to read. In the following section we describe the way research ideas...