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The Technology Enhanced Learning Cluster is located within the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology. It focuses on technology use in a range of pedagogical contexts and includes research on networked and online environments, innovative technologies, emergent pedagogies and online learner experiences and a growing body of research into how pedagogy and scholarship is changed by social networking and Web 2.0.

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The cross-faculty International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) in the Faculty of Social Sciences ensures that forensic psychology at the OU has a well-established reputation for its innovative approach and commitment to real world application. The Department of Psychology plays a key role in this area of research.

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Our research focuses on the fundamentals of neurobiology and how they relate to behaviour. Key themes of our research are: neuronal structure and development; neuropathology and glial cell biology; neurophysiological and functional imaging measurements of the human brain; biochemical, electrophysiological and behavioural aspects of learning, memory and attention; and genetic, biological and cognitive underpinnings of disorders across the lifespan, including autism, dementia, Huntington's disease, and ADHD.

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A key topic in the Language and Literacies Research Cluster within the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) is multimodal meaning making. There is a strong and growing interest in how people make meaning not just through language, but through a range of resources.

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The Department of Social Policy and Criminology has extensive interests in this field and is engaged in a number of lived experience, policy and welfare related research projects. We are active members of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) - leading the Families and Relationships Programme and contributing to the Psychosocial Programme.

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The Department of Psychology has a well-established reputation for its innovative approach and commitment to real world application. This area of the department's work is wide ranging and involves researchers undertaking both collaborative and individual projects.

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The Department of Psychology's work in this area has a distinguished history and the department has a world-class reputation for its contribution to the development of these psychological approaches. This research ranges from normative sexualities, health and illness, masculinities, femininities, and the discursive construction of identities; to alternative structures of intimate life in diverse situated contexts.

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The central aim of the Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group is to promote research in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, together with specific topics in other areas that relate closely to the themes of mind, meaning and rationality - for example, decision theory in ethics. These issues were chosen because they are important not only to philosophers, but also to people working in other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, social psychology, economics and artificial intelligence.

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The Philosophy Department's research and teaching interests in the area of value include: metaethics, ethical theory, moral psychology, moral epistemology, practical ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics and the theory of art.

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A significant development in the Department of Psychology's research is in the area of counselling and psychotherapy. As with other areas, the approach here is one of theoretical and methodological innovation that is grounded in the world of practice (all staff working in this area are practitioners).

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