The 12th eSTEeM Annual Conference: Enabling Student Success – Expanding Engagement in Scholarship

Dates: 

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 09:00 to Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 15:00

Location

Walton Hall and via MS Teams

Contact

eSTEeM

Our first in person conference for three years, with online participation also available, the programme is an exciting mix of short orals, workshops and poster presentations showcasing scholarship work conducted by STEM colleagues.

We are delighted to announce a keynote presentation by Harriet Dunbar-Morris from the University of Portsmouth who will discuss approaches for staff-student co-creation to curriculum design. Day one will feature a workshop focused on increasing student engagement in scholarship and we will also be celebrating the launch of our forthcoming Impact of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning publication.

We will be presenting the annual eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year awards which will celebrate excellence in eSTEeM projects over the past year. Conference delegates will also be invited to vote for the best poster presentation.

To view the programme, please visit the link below under ‘Related resources’.

Online attendees

For those delegates attending the conference online, please visit the eSTEeM & Co website for the necessary links to access the sessions. Sign-in is required using your OU credentials. Links to the pre-recorded poster presentations and details of how to vote, can also be found on the eSTEeM & Co website.  

We look forward to welcoming you on the 19-20 April.

@OU_eSTEeM #eSTEeMConf23

PowerPoint Presentations

Day One

Keynote Presentation

Harriet Dunbar-Morris, University of Portsmouth - ​Co-Creation Success

Parallel Session A

Nicole Lotz and Muriel Sippel - Designing and supporting more inclusive project modules

Parallel Session B

Vicki Brown and Cath Brown - "Personal tutor" pilot scheme on a Mathematics Level 1 module

Parallel Session C

Melanie Gregg and Vivien Cleary - Cultivating student led tutorials - The effects of a flipped online classroom

Parallel Session D

Sarah Davies, Elaine McPherson, Mary Keys, Debra Croft and Russ Rimmer - Pathways and Intersections: Investigating awarding gaps on cross-faculty modules and degrees

Christopher Hutton and Fiona Aiken - Evaluation and improvement of print pack use for Environmental Science students

Petra Wolf and Mary Keys - Improving gender balance through a combined STEM degree

Parallel Session E

Sue Pawley and Cath Brown - Building a sense of community through social activities on the Maths and Stats Study Site

Rachel Slater, Elaine McPherson, Anne Campbell and Christine Pearson - Tailored tuition: Associate Lecturer examples of responding to students’ needs

Michael Bowkis, Christine Gardner and Alexis Lansbury - Early Start for TM470 project students

Parallel Session F

Gemma Warriner, Becca Whitehead and Fiona Moorman - Can we reduce anxiety of students sitting online exams? Sharing best practice between SPS and LHCS

Harriet Kopinska and Jenny Duckworth - Tutor and student experiences of marking grids for assessment on a L3 interdisciplinary module

Anton Dil, Sharon Dawes, Lindsey Court, Richard Walker and Matthew Nelson - A demographic analysis of automated assessment feedback use for coding, with an examination of areas where students experience difficulty

Student Engagement in Scholarship Workshop

Trevor Collins, Fiona Aiken, Bart Gamber, Steph Lay, Emma Street and Kim White - Supporting scholarship researchers in engaging students through the research journey

Mark Jones and Sue Pawley - Engaging Students as Partners in Scholarship

Impact of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Publication

Trevor Collins and Shailey Minocha - Impact of SoTL Publication Launch 

Day Two

Parallel Session G

Carlton Wood, Lynda Cook and Anactoria Clarke - Supporting students effectively in an online teaching environment at the beginning of their student journey

Sarah Daniell & Lorraine Waters - What holds students back from attending live tutorials and using online forums on S294 and SK299?

Fiona Aiken and Paul Collier -Typical Support Seeking Behaviour of STEM Students, their Outcomes and Successes

Parallel Session H

Abi Kirk - Interactive Online Problem-Solving Sessions

Anne Jay, Marcus Badger, Robert Barnes, Brian Richardson and Geoff Austin - High Resolution Virtual 3D Geological Outcrops for Teaching and Learning

Martin Braun - What is known about how to write online maths heavy physics exams and how to prepare students for them?

Parallel Session I

Anne-Katrin Klehe - Forming a sense of belonging to aid retention at a level 2 Physics module

Rachel Hilliam, Emma Steele, Carol Calvert and Di Haigney - Statistics anxiety: what is it and how do we measure it?

Elouise Huxor and Theodora Philcox - The Postcard project – an intervention to improve student success on level 1 design

Parallel Session J

Alan Cayless and Arabella Nock - Learning Logs: Employability skills for remote experiments

Janet Haresnape and Ruth Gilbert - Evaluation of a programme of employability-focussed workshops run in summer 2022 for biology students

Ann Grand, Victoria Pearson, Iain Greenlees, Snezana Levic and Joanna Shelton - Collaborative leadership in a research group: what does it mean, how is it practised and what are its impacts on post-graduate students?

Sarah Davies, Cat Cowie, Philip Holden, Lorraine Hudson and Kadmiel Maseyk - Embedding research into teaching: practices, motivations and impacts

Parallel Session K

Karen Kear, Helen Donelan, Jon Rosewell - Online tutorials: addressing the challenges of active student participation 

Parallel Session L

Silvia Varognolo, Alice Moncaster,  Hedieh Jazaeri, Fiona Gleed and Jo Smedley - Rehearsing with the Mechanicals: convenience and conventions in distance learning group work

Poster Presentations

Visit our YouTube Channel to view the recorded poster presentations.

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