News

Bad people or people who do bad things?
9th April 2021
FASS academics Dr Camilla Elphick and Dr Zoë Walkington consult on a new series of the popular Bad People podcast.
Professor Sarah Crafter to co-lead UK activity on new Horizon-funded project
26th March 2021
Professor Sarah Crafter joins ‘Networking the educational world – Across boundaries for community-building’, a research project seeking to address significant educational inequalities, discrimination and barriers to integration faced by children and young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
£50k funding to Dr Lara Frumkin for digital technologies, power and control project
26th March 2021
Dr Lara Frumkin, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and has secured funding of almost £50k to lead a 2-year project looking at digital technologies, power and control.
Research grant to Dr Lee Curley and colleagues to focus on bias in ‘super-recognisers’
24th March 2021
Dr Lee Curley and colleagues have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme small grant for a research project ‘Super-recognisers: Is bias their kryptonite?’
Are you better than the average driver?
16th November 2020
80% of drivers think that they are better than average. Why not put your abilities to the test with ‘The Mobile Office Challenge’, a new 10-minute interactive based on research by Applied Cognitive Psychologist Dr Gemma Briggs
“Sometimes all it takes is a smile”
10th September 2020
With more than 200 million suicide attempts annually, many of us will be affected by suicide. On World Suicide Prevention Day, we speak to award-winning Psychologist, Dr. David Morrison, co-author of ‘Trauma and suicide', a section from FASS module D241 – Exploring Mental Health and Counselling.
OU Research impacts Royal decision to support mental health of emergency responders
27th July 2020
OU Research from the Centre for Policing and Research has impacted the Royal Foundation’s decision to fund grants to mental health charities supporting emergency responders.
Surge in visitors to OU's Online Counselling advice site
30th April 2020
Course written in an unprecedented matter of days by FASS Psychology academics Dr Naomi Moller and Dr Andreas Vossler has seen a surge in visitors to The Open University’s OpenLearn Create platform.
OU Academics Develop Website to Support Perinatal Anxiety
24th March 2020
Psychologists Dr Gini Harrison and Dr Donna Moore have developed website OpenPaws, Open Perinatal Anxiety and Worry Support for new mums, to better understand and support women’s experiences of perinatal anxiety.
OU Research Supports Police Safe Driving Campaign
11th March 2020
Research by Senior Lecturer in Psychology Dr Gemma Briggs has helped produce a toolkit of resources for police forces to use in a campaign for safer driving.