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I-SPY: Internet infidelity and its impact on couple relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Internet infidelity and its impact on couple relationships

...research conducted by The Open University’s academics Andreas Vossler and Naomi Moller from the OU’s School of Psychology shows that relationship boundaries can be blurred online. This means that people in a relationship may be uncertain what online behaviours count as cheating. Their partners also may see things differently than they do. In addition to a lack of...
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Video 10 mins
South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future
Health, Sports & Psychology

South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future

...research at The Open University...Introduction Dr. Geraldine Boyle and her colleagues are carrying out research into the experiences of South Asian young adult carers living in England as they transition (or progress) to adulthood. They told us about who they care for, what this involves and how they manage this role alongside family life, education and paid jobs. We...
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Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...research projects which explore the relationship between language and thinking. A dialogic teacher's perspective Primary science teacher Diane Rawlins talks about her involvement in the dialogic teaching research project, and how her involvement influenced the way she uses talk in the classroom. Group work: social pedagagy and the SPRinG project Professor Maurice Galton...
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Audio 1 hr 42 mins
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...research principles. It follows that what is known about a given scientific discipline has the potential to change with the publication of each new piece of research. The publication of new knowledge is not a given. For new knowledge to be published, it has to pass the assessment of peers working in the field (i.e. other expert scientists). Once agreed, this new knowledge...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
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
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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.
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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.
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Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...research-based evidence to challenge the three main functions of the model of policing utilised at that time namely: preventative patrol rapid response solving crimes to catch offenders (Goldstein, 1979) This approach in turn led to the emergence of evidence-based policing, developed by criminologist Professor Larry Sherman. Sherman argues that EBP is ‘a method of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs