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Society, Politics & Law

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...Research website: Interrogating identity and citizenship through art Here on OpenLearn, discover how people came together to consider how we make sense of questions of citizenship at a time when those questions are so contentious: Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change? Another recent research project that used creative methods to co-produce...
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...children and families, mental health services, people with learning disabilities, and people with physical disabilities, and also old people. So really, we cover a wide spectrum. Predominantly, nine times out of 10, we work on our own. We work through the night, which means that we have to prioritise work. We have to do assessments and investigations. And so there's a lot...
Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...research and teaching. What had been the point, I wondered, of trying to offer resources with which to think when the result appeared to reflect the priority of visceral feelings over thought, and to privilege authenticity (who is speaking) rather than expertise (the authority of facts and evidence). And, if what you speak is dismissed as being politically correct, how...
Desires and beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Desires and beliefs

Using two different experiments, psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik shows how children of different ages think about the minds of others...Transcript.
Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...Centre(based at the University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of where we might look”, as the authors put it. One story describes the New Deal in 1930s America, which, the study...
Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...researchers all over the world producing information, is there a way for other scientists to look at large sets of results and use them to make new discoveries? ...A great deal of experimental data generated by scientists is now stored online in publicly available databases. Because of this, it can now be used (‘interrogated’) in large biological studies to uncover...
Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...centres for Spiritualism’, and Stoke-on-Trent is still home to three highly active Spiritualist churches enjoying healthy congregations and playing a significant role in their local communities. Dearly departed Most religious traditions have a view on what happens to us after death, but Spiritualism is unique in that it is based around the belief that the human soul,...
Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...Research at The Open University shows that many Black STEM students experience isolation and a lack of connection to their academic community (Awan, 2025; MacBrayne et al., 2025). This is not a minor issue; it directly impacts confidence, engagement, and success. When students feel invisible or excluded from informal networks, their ability to thrive is compromised. If...