Health, Sports & Psychology
Centre for Open Thanatology Hub
Check out the FREE content from Open Thanatology, The Open University’s interdisciplinary research group for the study and education of death, dying, loss and grief.
Education & Development
Children and ethnicity
...research evidence to date can tell us about the influence it has on children’s attitudes and identities, and what parents can do to help their children develop positive attitudes towards ethnic diversity. What is ‘ethnicity’? While there is much debate and disagreement about the concept, ‘ethnicity’ is generally understood as representing a shared sense of...
Society, Politics & Law
Children’s rights
...children fit in to our society? This free course will help you to understand the issues surrounding children's rights as well as examining the implications of seeing children as citizens. You will also explore the meaning of childhood and analyse children's needs...How do children fit in to our society? This free course will help you to understand the issues ......
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...
Languages
About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
...Centre for Languages and Cultures, a collection of free taster courses in a range of languages and communication-related subjects...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications Transcript "At the heart of our mission for the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures sits the ambition to open up access to high quality opportunities to learn...
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...