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Making space for female engineering students: an evaluation of the effectiveness of a face-to-face Student Conference

Fiona Gleed

The Engineering profession offers intellectually and financially rewarding careers, with skills in high demand globally. However, women are significantly under-represented, with female students making up 18% of first year Engineering undergraduates in UK HE¹.

November 2023 to March 2024

Investigating the motivations of female students choosing an open versus named qualification

Elaine McPhersonMary Keys

UK universities (including the OU) have continued to struggle to recruit women to certain subjects within STEM despite best efforts to address this gender imbalance. In 2017, the OU introduced a ‘BSc (Hons) Combined STEM’ degree (R28) alongside its single and joint honours degrees in STEM.

June 2020 to December 2022