Psychology and Counselling study journeys – 2

We continue our new series on student journeys. This week we hear from Rain, a student on DE300 and E313. Tell us about you and your life situation Hey! This is Rain. I’m a 21-year-old Filipino, living in the Philippines. I’m an undergraduate student at the Open University, studying Psychology and I am already in…

A winter postcard from module DE300 Investigating Psychology 3

We begin a new series of winter postcards from the School's modules, written by the academics who work mostly closely with students and tutors, the Staff Tutors. They write about what's happening on each module at this point in the year. Today Dr Katy Smith writes from DE300, the dissertation module for the School's main…

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

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

DE300 Investigating Psychology 3: A Tutor’s view

This week we start a new series in which Associate Lecturers introduce Psychology and Counselling modules that they tutor. We begin the series with the dissertation module DE300 Investigating Psychology 3. Hello there, I’m Sarah Howcutt.  I’m a former OU psychology student myself, having done a Postgraduate Conversion to psychology between 2005 and 2010.  So, I've known…