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Earth In Vision: A Collection
Nature & Environment

Earth In Vision: A Collection

The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
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Video 3 hrs
Family photos and what they mean
Society, Politics & Law

Family photos and what they mean

What can family photos tell us about households, gender roles and emerging technology? Professor Gillian Rose explores her research on family photography, and how this work interacts with her own experiences...Transcript
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Video 5 mins
Fancy a mission? Join the Weather-It community
Science, Maths & Technology

Fancy a mission? Join the Weather-It community

...PhD project is to help people engage in scientific investigation, by giving them opportunities to collaborate with experts and run their own research. "Weather-it" is looking at the involvement of people in a community of online weather investigations. "Weather-it" has been given a favourable opinion by The Open University Human Research Ethics Committee. See you online!...
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Article 5 mins
Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...research fellow on the PersSyst Project (working alongside Rose Armson in supporting systems thinking for People services at the OU) and then as an Associate Lecturer on an undergraduate and postgraduate modules in systems thinking. Rupesh received his BSc (Hons) from the University of Bath in Business Administration in 1997. He gained his PhD from the University of Bath...
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Audio 15 mins
Biology Week
Miscellaneous

Biology Week

...research and development leaders and innovators of the future. The accreditation criteria require evidence that graduates have met defined learning outcomes, including gaining substantial research experience. From the very big to the very small Biologists study everything from the behavior of elephants; some of the planet's largest creatures, to the smallest organisms and...
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Article 5 mins
Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)
Education & Development

Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)

...research skills whilst investigating a specific question or topic that relates to your professional context, previous study or personal interest. Your investigation can be within any subject area and may require you to venture across disciplines, to make connections as well as expand your field of knowledge, all whilst developing advanced skills in critical thinking,...
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Video 10 mins
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
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley, Fiona Leverick, James Chalmers
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley, Fiona Leverick, James Chalmers

What is the ideal jury size? How can courtrooms eliminate harmful myths? Lee Curley, Fiona Leverick and James Chalmers discuss the history and findings of one of the most exciting jury research projects of recent years...Podcast transcript
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Audio 5 mins