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BBC/OU co-pro Bad People podcast asks does ‘good cop, bad cop’ interviewing work?
The latest episode of the BBC Sounds podcast Bad People, features an interview with OU academic Dr Zoe Walkington and asks, does the ‘good cop/bad cop’ style of police interviewing ever work? Presented by criminal psychology scientist Dr Julia Shaw and comedian co-host Sofie Hagan, Bad People deconstructs true crime, turning to psychological science to […]
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The Open University joins forces with Avon and Somerset Police in ground-breaking new research project into rape and sexual offences
The Open University (OU) is collaborating with Avon and Somerset Police in a pioneering research project that aims to transform the police response to rape and sexual offences. Project Bluestone combines academic learning with professional practice and brings together leading academics from across the UK to work alongside police officers. Working across five different workstreams, […]
OU’s WELS faculty beats the national statistics with three new female Professors
The Open University’s Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) has promoted three of its female academics to Professor. With HESA reporting that only 28% of UK Professors are women in 2019/20, WELS is beating the trend with well over half (67%) of its Professors being female. Rebecca Ferguson, Kristina Hultgren and Joan Simons […]
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OU Care Experienced Bursary – Antony’s story
With the launch of The Open University’s new Care Experienced Bursary, OU alumni, current student and employee, Antony shares his story. After a challenging childhood in the care system, Antony underperformed at school and dropped out of a traditional, brick university. A desire to move away from his job in retail to a career supporting children […]
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Mars: how Ingenuity helicopter made the first flight on another planet
Written by Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University Imagine that you are flying a model helicopter or a drone. You are there with the auto controls. You switch them on. The rotors start to turn, gradually increasing their spin. You watch, then push the control for lift. Your helicopter rises, hovers, […]
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From football apprentice to OU graduate and beyond
Dominic Ball, 25, of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, came to The Open University (OU) after completing a football apprenticeship. He has now graduated in more ways than one: to professional footballer and, recently, OU scholar, joining the Class of 2020. The Queens Park Rangers defensive midfielder successfully completed a BA (Hons) in Business Studies. It […]
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Why deaf prisoners have been in a state of lockdown since well before COVID-19
Written by Daniel McCulloch, Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The Open University and Laura Kelly-Corless, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Central Lancashire. The pandemic has worsened already dire conditions for prisoners since the UK Prison Service locked down the prison estate last year. Following drastic changes to the regime, most imprisoned people have since spent between […]
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Art competition launched to highlight the plight of the nation’s floodplain meadows
Budding artists of all ages are being asked to take part in a national arts and crafts competition to help raise awareness of the UK’s diminishing floodplain meadows. The OU and the Floodplain Meadows Partnership have launched the competition encouraging people to visit a local floodplain and create a piece of art that represents the […]
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Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World
“I don’t want you to listen to me, I want you to listen to the science,” says Greta Thunberg in the first episode of a new three-part documentary, co-produced by The Open University (OU) and the BBC. The series, set to air from Monday 12 April 2021 at 9pm on BBC One, follows climate activist […]
Suez stranding: Containing the supply chain
As the movement of ships has now resumed in the Suez Canal since the Ever Given container ship became wedged across the waterway last month, the OU’s Emeritus Professor of politics and global studies Graham Thompson considers what this incident tells us about globalisation in today’s world. Firstly he looks back at a programme made […]
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