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eSTEeM is providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community. Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outputs. 

eSTEeM supports a rolling portfolio of approx. 80 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Access, Participation and Success
  • Innovative assessment
  • Online/onscreen STEM practice
  • Supporting students
  • Technologies for STEM learning

To learn more about our projects, please click on the project titles or use the search feature below by entering keywords. To search by the name of a project leader, please use the 'Filter by Project Leader' tab on the right-hand side of this page.

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

  1. Elaine McPhersonKate Lister

    2. 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

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

  2. Chris Hughes

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

    January 2019 to February 2020

    Factors influencing female participation in Physical Science Postgraduate Research Programmes

  3. Clare RegerMark BowdenAnne-Marie Gallen

    4. 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

    Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

  4. Rachel SlaterAnne CampbellElaine McPherson

    5. The AccIT project has four main aims:

    January 2020 to September 2023

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

  5. Alice MoncasterHedieh Jazaeri

    6. 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

    SiSE only tutor groups and the effect on SiSE students and their tutors

  6. Laura AlexanderLinda MooreVictoria Nicholas

    7. Normally at the Open University Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) are allocated in small numbers to standard tutor groups to form mixed groups of 20 students, of whom 1 or 2 would typically be SiSE students.

    October 2019 to October 2020

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

  7. Elaine McPhersonMary Keys

    8. 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

    Evaluation of D-flag students accessibility to and use of online tutorials and forums in L2 modules

  8. Sarah DaniellLorraine Waters

    9. It remains the case that despite different initiatives to encourage tutorial attendance, few students attend live online tutorials in LHCS.

    May 2020 to May 2024

    Investigation into running course specific taster tutorials within prisons for non-OU students

  9. Colin Blundell

    10. Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) can typically have different issues to other students from pre-registration through to the end of their studies.

    July 2020 to July 2024

    Understanding the mental health attainment gap in Design modules

  10. Nicole LotzMuriel Sippel

    11. Winner of the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2024.

    Retention and attainment of students with a mental health disability on Design modules is poor compared to other qualifications in Engineering and Innovation, STEM.

    November 2020 to June 2023

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