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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...analysis determines to some extent the amount of data that needs to be collected, the amount of data collected in qualitative methods is based on the principle of reaching a saturation point – the point at which no new information is obtained when further data are collected. The interviews by Mofokeng and van der Wath (2017) centred on one question, ‘What are your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...data for testing theories, and their use is determined by the theoretical question. However, it is arguable that treating method as a technical afterthought downplays the extent to which social and intellectual change might be conveyed through method. Following this, much of my work involves trying to work with the intellectual and motivational benefits of a more active...
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Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...analysis and communication – as well as an open-mindedness to different disciplines and research methods. In the latter case, my previous life as an OU student (in the early 2000s), on the Social Sciences programme, was formative – I picked up a lot about sociological approaches and ideas, some of which I still use today in my research. 2. What is your specialist area...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...data. The on-board camera showed that Huygens had landed on what looked like the shore of a dried-up lake bed. Some "pebbles" were visible sitting on top of a surface which could not be fully resolved by the camera. So what was it? This was the question faced by Karl for his PhD project. His basic interpretation was that the penetrometer, after at first producing a brief...
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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...data and how to convert data from one form to another. For example, telescopes collect data on spectra and the brightness of celestial bodies; these data are converted to numbers that are represented by images on a screen and stored in large data files. I had to extract numerical information from those images, convert that into knowledge about the physical ......
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The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...data already predicts that we will be half a century late for the first of the 2030 education targets...[Globe and a bachelor's hat cartoon, society matters] Almost a year after a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 were finalised, the first report tracking global progress towards its goal for education and lifelong learning shows just how far there is still...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...data, why doesn’t the Department for Education? But it goes deeper. After reading lots of books about Islam in 2016 to try and better understand my Muslim students, I tried to ‘get down with the kids’ by listening to Camden-based rap artist Akala. I couldn’t get along with the music, but I read his book Natives. I haven’t been totally ignorant of Britain’s...
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How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the members of a project team and the occasional face-to-face interactions between certain members of the project team and other organizational members, we show how knowledge creation emerges via three core dialogical processes: dialogues with real others, quasi-dialogues with invisible others, and...
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