Health, Sports & Psychology
Centre for Open Thanatology Hub
The Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and education of death, dying, loss, and grief across the life course and in diverse contexts.
Education & Development
The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility
...Centre for Social Mobility is delighted to partner with The Open University to provide a range of free learning resources, supporting our core priorities: education, training and skills...Find out more about The Open University’s Open degree qualification. The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility was set up in 2017 by David Harrison, one of the UK’s leading...
Languages
Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures: your learning hub for communication in an interconnected world.
Science, Maths & Technology
Online mathematics discovery centre
Discover the many faces of maths with our free learning resources - including courses, videos and games...Mathematics is important across many disciplines: science, medicine, engineering, technology, communications, AI and Big Data, finance, economics and more. It is a fundamental tool enabling us to analyse and comprehend the world around us, and to solve some of the...
Education & Development
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
...researching professional...The comments from other PD students might give you insight into how they approached these areas. As you read the sections make a note of any actions and add them to your Researching Professional Development Plan. You can then discuss your action plan with your supervisor and revisit it at the end of the PD year. The literature review What others...
Education & Development
Formulating research questions
...research’ (Texas Centre for Equity Promotion). When setting out to formulate a research question, researchers are working to at least two immediate agendas. Firstly, the priorities of the funders of research, such as funding councils and charities or organisations working across health and social care policy and service provision. At the very least, core parameters......
Education & Development
Developing (as) a research team
...research journey...‘The emancipatory research paradigm must be seen not in terms of one single project or projects but as a process’ (Barnes, 2001). Barnes (2001) is talking about a particular research method, but his message applies to the wider research field if we wish to be equal, diverse and inclusive. It is perhaps unsurprising that a research approach that...
Education & Development
EDI in research: a collection
...Research page is intended to inspire conversations amongst researchers (postgraduate, emerging and established) and their research teams. It contributes towards accomplishing The Open University’s mission of embodying Higher Education as open to people, places, methods and ideas. The pages drawn together here are designed to cultivate research cultures that value...