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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...researching these complex, varied and often surprising organisations for several decades, during which the business landscape has gone through a series of radical transformations: the privatisations, liberalisation and industrial restructuring of the 1980s; the dot.com boom around the turn of the twenty-first century; the financial crisis of the 2010s; increasingly...
Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
Society, Politics & Law

Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy

...Research started in earnest from 2005, when Karl MacDorman and Takashi Minato translated Mori’s original paper into English. Interest in the area has since expanded quickly: so far, 510 academic papers reference the effect in 2015, compared to just 35 in 2004. Although the effect is easy to describe, and feels intuitively “right” when looking at some examples of...
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...research by John Henderson overturns this view. He reveals what it was like to be an 'Italian Patient' and shows that there are remarkable similarities to health care provisions today. Katherine Park has shown that at the same time the practice of autopsy was in full swing with the sanction of the Church. In the late medieval period hospitals were built in Florence as...
How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?

...researchers usually give respondents at least one appealing option to choose from. This led us to wonder: What do voters do when they consider all of the options bad? Do they fall back on party affiliation, or simply toss a coin? This question is especially appropriate in the current presidential election because the two front runners have the lowest favorability ratings...
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott

Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott discuss their interests in the field of jury research, and recent developments in this area of study...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. Podcast transcript
One minute methods - cross sectional and longitudinal designs
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - cross sectional and longitudinal designs

Discover how researchers compare different age groups of children at the same time, as in the Elenbaas and colleagues study, or compare how the same children grow up over time. ...Transcript.
Gender groups
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gender groups

Emily Foster-Hanson talks about her own research (2023) showing how children form stereotypes about gender and how they are related to their parent’s political views...Transcript.
Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs
Nature & Environment

Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs

...researchers used super glue to attach small radio transmitters about the size of a nickel to the backs of 16 frogs over two years. The radio transmitters allowed the researchers to see where the frogs made their hibernacula -- divots in the leaf litter near a lake or pond, where they planned to spend the winter. Once the frogs were settled, the researchers placed little...