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Access, Participation and Success

Improving and evaluating inclusivity in group project work for distance-learning engineering students

  • Alice MoncasterHedieh Jazaeri

    • Projects and teamwork are the predominant context in which most engineers work. Providing supported learning experience of such contexts supports employability for our students.

    April 2021 to February 2024

    Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

  • Rachel SlaterAnne CampbellElaine McPherson

    • The AccIT project has four main aims:

    January 2020 to September 2023

    Factors influencing female participation in Physical Science Postgraduate Research Programmes

  • Clare RegerMark BowdenAnne-Marie Gallen

    • The aim of this project was to conduct a scoping study into why lower numbers of female graduates choose nuclear fusion Ph.D.s relative to other physical sciences. This is a particularly nuanced study as we are considering the nuclear fusion research pathway in comparison to other STEM routes.

    April 2019 to February 2022

    Evaluating the accessibility of an alternative format of module materials in Maths & Stats

  • Chris Hughes

    • Winner of the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2020 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

    January 2019 to February 2020

    Engaging stakeholders as experts in the trial and evaluation of Disability Language Guidance

  • Elaine McPhersonKate Lister

    • To support inclusive and equitable study, universities often categorise students as ‘disabled’ for them to access specific support for their studies and require them to engage with terms such as ‘disclosing a disability’ and ‘reasonable adjustments’.

    February 2019 to August 2021

    Sonification partial pilot on M140

  • Karen VinesChris Hughes

    • Sonifications are audio representations of graphs, and as such are an ‘alternative format’ which could be used to improve accessibility of module materials.

    May 2017 to April 2018

    Engineering qualifications at the OU – what motivates women to study?

  • Carol MorrisSally Organ

    • Winner of the 3rd Best Poster Competition at the 7th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2018.

    May 2017 to October 2019

    Gendered Choices - Motivation and degree choices of Computing and IT students: a gendered analysis

  • Clem Herman

    • This study investigates the gendered degree choices and motivations of Computing and IT students.

    May 2016 to July 2019

    Sonification of depictions of numerical data

  • Karen VinesChris Hughes

    • Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

    July 2015 to December 2016

    Gender Differences in completion and credit obtained in Level 2 study in Physical Sciences

  • Pam Budd

    • ​Winner of the 2nd Best Poster Competition at the 6th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2017.

    December 2014 to February 2018

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