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Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders
Languages

Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders

...opening lines often elicited immediate openness from interviewees (the refugee and migrant staff of migrant support and advocacy organisations). They formed an effective prelude to addressing a research puzzle about the positionality of refugees and migrants who work as front-line staff for migrant charities. To interpret these interview encounters, I had to abandon the...
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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...open window into the soul of a country and its people’. It wasn’t always easy, the trains were variable in terms of comfort, safety and reliability but it was always surprising. In her best-selling account of the journey, ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ (2019) Rajesh describes a journey that takes her through the vast expanses of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan as...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...Open University examinines teachers’ perceptions and practices, as well as children’s own experiences, of reading pedagogy...In the light of the House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the purpose and quality of education, I’ve been pondering on the primary profession’s long-term goals for teaching reading in England. Do teachers aim to develop readers...
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Introducing Geography Matters
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Geography Matters

...Open University's modules on geography, environmental studies and development – though we hope that students who aren't studying those topics will also find them interesting. Geography Matters will launch on 21 March. Among other items, there'll be a short post on Europe's borders, a video about a seedbank in north Norway and its links to wartorn Syria, and an audio...
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Ten commandments of research
History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...open? What is available? Archivists are a really nice lot of people but they need warning and consulting. Check essential information. Do you need ID? How many bits of information can you look at at any one time? Can you make copies and how much will it cost? Do a taster first. It is often wise not to dive in straight away but just to look at one item or related items and...
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Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community
Education & Development

Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community

...Open University, I was intrigued by the various staff networks available. There seemed to exist these autonomous, staff-led spaces where individuals with shared experiences could meet to support, motivate, listen to, and be heard by each other. The network for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff appealed to me, and after attending my first meeting I wanted to become...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...Open Online Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in the academe can often result in polarising categories. On the one hand, we find the glorified hype of the Web 2.0. version of the university: the digital...
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