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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...research interviews with their own expectations, and researchers have to take account of this, says Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology Dr Stephanie Taylor...[A group of women sitting around a table in an informal work meeting ] Research participants used to be referred to as ‘subjects’, especially in my home discipline, psychology. ‘Participant’, the term now...
Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?

...Centre (C) Wing Defence (WD) Goal Defence (GD) Goal Keeper (GK) The aim is to score more goals than your opponents across a match of 60 minutes divided into four quarters of play. Players are assigned one of the positions shown above with each allocated areas of the court in which they can move. Only two players on each team are able to shoot and score a goal – the Goal...
Open Education Week
Education & Development

Open Education Week

...researcher pack from The Open University's own OER Hub. Transcript The OER Hub The Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) at The Open University are leaders in researching the impact of open educational resources (OER) on teaching and learning practices. The OER Hub team has extensive expertise in authoring and developing open online courses. The following courses have all...
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...children and young people’s mental health problems in the media, and we often hear this issue referred to as a ‘crisis’. But what does the evidence say? Are rates of mental health problems rising? In this course you will explore these important questions as well as delving into a case study of a young person with anxiety who is refusing to go to school, which is...
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...children to a play centre, and we went down some slides together and had lunch together, but within that I actually received quite a serious disclosure in the car, and that’s a relationship that I’ve developed over the last year within a child protection plan. So I think a key part of that is developing a really meaningful relationship with children in a very...
Writing for pleasure?
Education & Development

Writing for pleasure?

...children across the country endure tests and seek to name and label modal verbs and demonstrate that they can separate their subordinating conjunctions from their prepositions, will they find any pleasure in the process? With grammar frontstage and writing backstage and teachers’ impending end-of-year assessments of writing tethered to limited criteria, the likelihood...
Play families: Using toys to open up communication with your child
Education & Development

Play families: Using toys to open up communication with your child

...can communicate well using toys to express themselves. Use this activity with your child so that they can open up about how they are feeling. ...Play is a very important part of children’s communication — it can reflect their world and their feelings and give them a way to express themselves other than through talking. Professionals helping children to communicate...
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...children raised by wolves and more. Do these stories have any basis in truth?...I recently became a first-time mother. In addition to my daughter, Myrtle, I share my home with a motley collection of rescued animals including dogs, cats, horses, chickens and pigs. This multi-species, multi-generational co-habitation – along with the release of a new adaptation of Rudyard...