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Sexual Citizenship and Social Change

Examining the use and abuse of critique in contemporary sexuality scholarship and associated activism, Professor Darren Langdridge implicates a particular form of critique that is detached, unfettered, and set loose from the usual anchor of tradition.

Looking back to last year’s Open Psychology Research Centre Event

In 2023, the Centre’s International Advisory Board visited the OU over July 10th-11th. The next Centre Advisory Board meeting takes place on 15th May 2024.

WATCH - The problem of borderline disorder

On 5 December 2024, Dr David Jones of The OU's Psychology & Counselling School, held a fascinating online talk with students, on the subject of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Psychology academics in £7.7million OU project to protect women and girls online

A team from The Open University, including OU Psychology, has been awarded £7.7million to create a new centre for combating online violence against women and girls, to open later this year.

Open Psychology Research Centre publishes third annual review

The Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) has published an annual review on its third year (2022-2023).

Research asks - can we design places to combat loneliness?

Why the built environment? There is evidence that the kinds of buildings and neighbourhoods people live in can help to shape people’s psychological wellb''eing. For this reason, the research team were curious as to whether there was evidence that the built environment specifically affects how lonely people feel. 

WATCH: Psychology talk on how we respond to disasters

Professor Peter Hegarty (Co-Director of the Open Psychology Research Centre at The OU) hosted a talk with guest speaker Dr Evangelos Ntontis of The OU’s Psychology & Counselling Dept.   Dr Ntontis was talking to undergraduates via The OU’s ColLab, and his subject was human behaviour during disasters and crises.

£650k funding secured for OU trust in forensic science psychology project

The Open University (OU) has secured a funding grant worth £657,922 for a project investigating trust in forensic science.

Calling all Coronation Street fans who have regularly watched the show for the last 20 years!

We would like to invite you to take part in our study on face recognition, which features characters from the show. 
All participants will have the opportunity to enter a free prize draw to win a £25 Amazon voucher (there are 20 prizes to give away)!

OU Psychology £2 million international project to limit the spread of extremism

International research, led by the OU, is to focus on exploring psychological drivers and proposing solutions to limit the spread of extremism around the world, in 3 year project.