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Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...Open University Applied Psychologists and the authors of this hub carried out a study looking at the psychological impact of these changes on business and organisations, and their perceived expectations and preparedness for the next 2 years. We developed a survey to assess businesses capability in areas that have strong psychological connections to provide insight into...
Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...Open University, introduces some of the key themes, issues, and evidence in this important field... Introduction - Childhood in the Digital Age (#1/5) How is technology changing childhood in the digital age? Are children’s lives today significantly different from our own or is technology simply solving old problems in new ways? The media has claimed that digital...
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...course it is sometimes better and sometimes worse. It is hard to know if it is more hotel or more station; perhaps it is a mixture of each which defies analysis; but in its well-studied composition you pass, as it were, from your car to your room, as from one chamber to another. This is putting the fact poetically; but, prosaically, the intervening steps are few at the...
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students provided words that showed they thought wellbeing was living a life ‘free from illness’ and other terms focused on physical...
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...open to a range of perspectives will give you much more opportunities to develop your skills in presenting arguments and discussing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the question should be interesting – for you, of course, but also for those who will read your dissertation or watch your final presentation. The ‘ten words’ technique and exercise. Developing a...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial...
Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...opening shots which define a new political era in which the values divide between voters – especially among whites – is the main axis of politics. In a period of rapid ethnic change, this cleavage separates those who prefer cultural continuity and order from novelty-seekers open to diversity. Policymakers and pundits should face this instead of imagining that old...
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...Open University, interviews science integrity expert Dr Elisabeth Bik...[Photo of Dr Elisabeth Bik] Dr Elisabeth Bik Dr. Elisabeth Bik is a microbiologist and world-renowned scientific integrity expert. After receiving her PhD at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, where she worked on epidemic Vibrio cholerae strains, Dr Bik conducted research on the microbiomes of...