The Open University
Public university in Milton Keynes, Englandwww.open.ac.uk
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Sep 20, 2026
Naomi MollerGUEST
I'm
Freya CarterHOST
actually reading at the moment in my Open University psychology literature that the more adverse childhood experiences that one experiences, it can actually have detrimental impacts on your opportunities and etc.
Freya CarterHOST
growing up.
Naomi MollerGUEST
Yes, it's associated with poverty, actually.
Tony SupremeHOST
Yeah.
Haider RazzakGUEST
And so I asked Sue Baker if she would help me apply for Open University courses.
Haider RazzakGUEST
And then with her support, I was able to put myself in a position where I could show the Prison's Education Trust that I was gonna be in prison long enough to be able to complete a degree, so they should support me.
Tony SupremeHOST
Yeah.
Katrina HavardGUEST
I do have a couple of embarrassing kind of face recognition lapses that have happened to me.
Freya CarterHOST
Hello and welcome to Why Do We Do That, a podcast from The Open University.
Freya CarterHOST
I'm Freya, a psychology student, and I'm going to be speaking to psychologists and counsellors from across the OU to explore the behaviours that we all share but don't always understand.
Freya CarterHOST
The scenarios that we're going to be exploring come from our real student community, real questions and real scenarios from people studying all over the country with the UK's largest university.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
And lo and behold, amazingly enough, way more fidelity in those outputs can be produced that seems to be coming from something that understands the world than anyone ever expected, and it is pretty cool.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
Speaking in my capacity as a pretend, uh, um, computer scientist who's got an honorary PhD in CS from the Open University, I look at that and I'm like, "That's pretty cool." Right? Uh-
Isaac PoundHOST
Mm-hmm.
Isaac PoundHOST
Yeah
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
Okay.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
Well, my interest in physiotherapy started when I was undertaking a degree in biology and psychology with the Open University.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
And I got really fascinated by how the brain controls movement.
Valerie PomeroyGUEST
So I considered going into medicine, but thought, no, I'll do physiotherapy.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
From a computer science perspective, I'm a fake computer science professor.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
I have an honorary doctorate from the Open University in CS, and I'm on their faculty in the computer science program there.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
And so from a computer science perspective, this is cool.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
And it scales.
Terry FlewHOST
So, yes, there are pioneering models, just as, you know, in the UK.
Terry FlewHOST
The Open University remains,
Martin BettsGUEST
you know...
Terry FlewHOST
an extremely far-sighted initiative on the part of Harold Wilson's underrated first government.
Terry FlewHOST
It was the internet that brought together all of the elements that the Open University model was based around.
Terry FlewHOST
But the understanding that if you needed to, if you were looking to reach a different cohort of students, to those who went to live on the campus for three years, you needed a different model of delivery.
Martin BettsGUEST
Well, you've hit all my buttons there, Terry.
Martin BettsGUEST
I mean, as a child of the 60s in the UK, I was very much aware of Harold Wilson's innovative political thinking in some very conservative environments in My country of birth.
Robert EvansHOST
The self-appointed investigator of black academics could recast himself as a guardian of merit, simply a man of learning asking questions.
Robert EvansHOST
With no reply to his last email, Harris took his claims elsewhere and enlisted another retired academic, Martin Hammersley, professor emeritus of education and social research at the Open University, who has a history of wild claims about feminist standpoint theory.
Robert EvansHOST
His grievance is what he regards as the influence of activist research on the social sciences and the diversity of viewpoints.
Robert EvansHOST
On the nineteenth of May twenty twenty-three, Hammersley wrote to Hilary Crymmen, head of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, and Rhys Morgan, the university's head of research policy governance and integrity setting out allegations concerning Arday's twenty eighteen paper in Social Sciences.
Alex McColganHOST
Just a few minutes later, BepiColombo snapped a photo of another peak ring basin, which had not yet been named.
Alex McColganHOST
Since it came into such clear view, David Rothery, professor of planetary geosciences at the UK's Open University, and part of the BepiColombo imaging team, decided to name it in case it would be of interest to Mercury scientists in the future.
Alex McColganHOST
And so the 155 kilometer wide crater was dubbed Studdert after the New Zealand painter, Margaret Studdert.
Alex McColganHOST
Mercury's surface was littered with these formations, making them one of the highest priority targets for BepiColombo to investigate once it slots into orbit around the planet.
Robert EvansHOST
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, this very posture was growing.
Robert EvansHOST
The self-appointed investigator of black academics could recast himself as a guardian of merit, simply a man of learning, asking questions." With no reply to his last email, Harris took his claims elsewhere and enlisted another retired academic, Martin Hammersley, professor emeritus of education and social research at The Open University, who has a history of wild claims about feminist standpoint theory.
Robert EvansHOST
His grievance is what he regards as the influence of activist research on the social sciences and the diversity of viewpoints.
Robert EvansHOST
On the 19th of May, 2023, Hammersley wrote to Hilary Crimin, head of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, and Rhys Morgan, the university's head of research policy, governance, and integrity, setting out allegations concerning Arde's 2018 paper in social sciences.
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