Research methods: the School’s academics contribute to a major new online publication

Sage Research Methods, edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug and Richard A. Williams, is a new 4 million word publication on research methods, updating the well-known series, Sage Encyclopedia of Research Methods, to an online format. The School's Academics have authored two of the Foundation chapters in Sage Research Methods. Professor…

Your School blog – September 2019

Welcome to the blog for the School of Psychology and Counselling. This is the central point in the School's social media. You can also access the blogs for social psychology, forensic psychology (see the links on the side of this blog page) and the new blog for counselling http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/counselling/ The School blog will cover news…

Do you remember?

Can you trust your own memory? Academics from the School have developed this short film on memory, a topic covered in modules DE100, DE200, DE300 and DD310. You can see the film here https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/why-your-first-memory-is-probably-wrong/p07jsv21?playlist=made-in-partnership-with-the-open-university

Here comes the new academic year…

With the August Bank Holiday past, the end of summer is in sight. The School of Psychology and Counselling is looking forward to the 2019-20 academic year and new presentations of our modules. This blog for the School presents news about modules, people and events. For example, if you haven't yet made a final decision…

As we perceive it?

Professor Graham Pike was the academic consultant on this new BBC film about perception, one of the key psychology topics covered in the Investigating Psychology modules DE200 and DE300, and in Living Psychology DD210. https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/why-we-see-faces-in-clouds/p07jsv05