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...Open University and MK Parks Trust’s initiative. Unfortunately, health inequalities still abound, and Part I of our article has attempted to understand potential causes. The Health Inequalities Part I article has previously examined socio-economic reasons and limited transport options as causes of health inequalities, providing some solutions being undertaken by MK...

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. In 1954, Gordon Allport, a Harvard academic published ‘The Nature of Prejudice’. In one of the thirty-one chapters, he discussed how prejudice between groups might be reduced simply by intergroup contact – provided certain conditions were met. This became known as the contact hypothesis and has become one of...

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. Misconceptions about physics Teaching is not as simple as presenting students with facts to memorise. Students have their own ideas about the world based on their everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat,...

...openness and transparency about who funds what research is deemed essential so that reviewers can take this into account when assessing whether a paper is suitably objective. Events in the MMR debate took an important turn on 22 February 2004 when the Sunday Times reported that Wakefield had secured £55 000 from the Legal Aid Board in 1996, two months before the study...