Enables more students to achieve their study goals
Project Team: Jennifer Mattschey
The project investigates Psychology students’ perception of both quantitative and qualitative research methods teaching at level 2, with the aim to identify new and more effective approaches to teaching these topics.
Project Team: Louise NewbiggingJames MunroSimon HarrisonMaika Telga
Investigating Psychology 3 (DE300) is the capstone Level 3 module in Psychology and Counselling with the Open University, in which students complete an independent research project over the course of the module.
Project Team: Marianna LatifAlicia Townshend
This study aims to explore the impact of early tutor contact on the D120 module, looking at the student experience, the tutor relationship and retention and progression. D120 is a new level 1 psychology module which started in October 2023.
Project Team: Benjamin NewmanColin LorneGeorge Revill
The purpose of this project is to explore the potential of thinking from popular and everyday online media spaces such as YouTube.
Project Team: Debbie Parker-Kinch Anactoria ClarkeJasmine Hunter EvansHannah Lavery
Phase 1 of this scholarship project piloted and evaluated ‘Write Now’ sessions on the Open University undergraduate English Literature module A233 ‘Telling Stories: the novel and beyond’, during the 2022-23 academic year.
Project Team: Rosemary Golding Byron Dueck
This project considers some of the barriers students might face when moving onto the MA in Music, either from within the OU or with prior experience of higher education from external institutions.
Project Team: Edward Wigley Sonja RewhornZoe Doye
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made headlines across the world that proclaim an existential threat to humanity, with ChatGPT being heralded as the beginning of a new era in technology. This scholarship project explores how this disruption could potentially lead to enhanced teaching
Project Team: Sharon XuerebCathy Schofield
It is vital for students to understand and uphold the principles of academic integrity throughout their studies. Although this is often a value that is promoted by higher education institutions from the outset, academic misconduct does appear to be a growing problem.
Project Team: Janet HunterKaren Twiselton
The aim of the project is to explore the experience of students who have been registered on the same module for one or more previous presentations, have either withdrawn, deferred, or been deregistered, and have subsequently returned to study on the same module.
Project Team: Jaime Waters
This project arises from tutor experiences in teaching SISE (Students in Secure Environments) and derives from reflections on the difficulties that SiSE students face beyond access to printed materials, and how we can provide the best possible materials and support for SISE students.
