Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - computer simulations
Discover how researchers build computer simulations to explore how children learn...Transcript.
Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - correlations
Discover how researchers use relationships between factors to understand child development...Transcript.
Nature & Environment
Universities United
...research and development projects expect there to be a consortium of partner organisations, including universities on any bid proposal. I myself have been involved in such projects a number of times. One of the most recent projects I worked on, an international development project funded by UK Aid through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, was called...
Nature & Environment
Cloning
...research, involving the cloning of human embryos, can now be allowed in the UK. How was this ruling reached? What is the story behind cloning? The idea of cloning animals was first suggested in 1938 by a German embryologist called Hans Spemann. He proposed what he called a "fantastical experiment" to remove the nucleus from an egg cell and replace it with a nucleus from...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
...research evidence and media perceptions of recovery from sport and exercise, and reflect on future directions for the topic. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E314 Exploring contemporary issues in sport and exercise...Recovery strategies in sport and exercise: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to:...
Money & Business
Enterprising Times
...Research by The Open University Business School suggests that innovative enterprises have performed best among Britain's five million small businesses throughout the economic downturn. Young entrepreneurs and students in the West Midlands are recorded attending their first ever business networking event. We also hear how business innovation is sprouting on the site of...
Science, Maths & Technology
The physical world: collisions
...Research, in Geneva. This cutting edge machine may detect the elusive Higgs boson, and with it reveal the origin of mass, the missing piece in our understanding of matter. If it succeeds, it will begin the next era of research into the nature of the universe. This material forms part of The Open University course S207 The physical world... The physical world: collisions...
Education & Development
Citational politics
...research questions, the literature you engage with shapes what is accepted as the evidence base for your research project. It has the capacity to determine priorities in your field of interest. In the video below, Professors Carol Azumah Dennis and Jenny Douglas talk about their own experiences as academics of citational politics. Transcript. Beyond this, citations matter...