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How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?

...researchers is not why do people become extremists, but why do so few people become extremists? Factors that have recently been gaining attention are the experience of trauma and mental health difficulties. While the research shows that trauma alone does not cause engagement with extremism, some extremists, in particular so-called ‘lone-wolf’ attackers, have been...
Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...research focuses on ‘controverted’ elections in eighteenth-century Ireland. OpenLearn speaks to her as part of our Opening up history series, where we delve into the thoughts and work of OU historians. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Suzanne Forbes]I’m not sure...
What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...Researchers in South Korea, however, have discovered a way of using waste coffee grounds as a fuel in a far more literal sense. In a study in Nanotechnology, they report using coffee waste to produce a carbon material full of small pores which increase the surface area, known as “activated” carbon. This new material is capable of absorbing and storing methane and...
Why do we feel happier in the spring?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do we feel happier in the spring?

...Researchers have found that spending as little as 10 minutes per day in nature lowers cortisol levels, a key hormone associated with the stress response (Hunter et al., 2019). So, being outside in nature more during spring in turn reduces our stress levels and is linked to improvements in our mental health. In fact, research has shown that being outside in nature is...
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...research and communication can occur. Blogs, tweets, automatically generated citation measures, learning analytics, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in the academe can often result in...
The impact of a Professional Doctorate
Education & Development

The impact of a Professional Doctorate

...made in their lives. Transcripts Professor Hazel Reid - Transcript Dr Eddie Rocks - Transcript Dr Pauline Lyseight-jones - Transcript Dr Tim Maxwell - Transcript EdD stories Read about the personal and professional impact of the Professional Doctorate on OU graduates. EdD posters Read the posters of three OU graduates on their EdD research and how they took it forward....
Sex stats for the British population
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex stats for the British population

...by Natsal-4, a survey collected from thousands of adults living all over Britain...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. Please check back in the autumn of 2026, when the updated interactive with the findings from Natsal-4 will be published. If you want to learn more about the research behind this interactive, check out www.natsal.ac.uk...
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...research in this area, start with the first activity. Activity 1: Emotion mapping Timing: 20 minutes Emotion mapping is a technique used in both therapy and research to understand how people relate to the places they live in. Have a go at producing an emotion map yourself following the instructions below. 1. Draw a simple map of your home. [Drawing of a floorplan of a...
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