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eSTEeM Projects

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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    Evaluation of online journal club (OJC) in S285: to what extent does this help students develop employability skills?

  1. Lorraine WatersRachel McMullan

    2. Developing employability skills have been identified as an Open University priority; there is evidence that these transferable ‘soft’ skills are often limited in science graduates entering the workplace.

    May 2022 to June 2024

    Which factors are correlated with undergraduate engineering distance learning students’ expectations of ethical issues?

  2. Joanna Sessford

    3. Ethics is becoming an increasingly important part of engineering curriculum. Engineers need to be able to recognise and make ethical decisions in their working life. This is essential for a number of different reasons including to avoid potentially life taking disasters. 

    November 2022 to February 2024

    Postgraduate Project Management: evaluation of student employability skills development

  3. Kay BromleyJill ShawJoan Jackson

    4. M815 Project Management is part of the postgraduate computing programme and can also be studied by MSc students in Technology Management, Environmental Management, Engineering, Systems Thinking in Practice or Space Science and Open MSc/MA. This proposed scholarship project is motivated by tutors’

    December 2022 to September 2024

    Recruiting tutors to specialist modules in the School of Computing and Communications at the Open University

  4. David McDade

    5. Highly Commended at the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2025.

    November 2022 to October 2024

    Peer-learning activity for communicating algorithms in a Level 2 computer science module

  5. Ravi Rajani

    6. Peer learning is widely believed to address essential transferable skills such as teamworking, communication, and critical enquiry, that are not easily pursued by other means (Topping, 1998; Boud, Cohen and Sampson, 1999).

    May 2023 to July 2024

    Deep dive into role STEM-ByALs-ForALs programme has played in professional journey of participating ALs, and exploration of future directions for the programme

  6. Rupesh Shah

    7. The STEM-ByALs-ForALs programme was set up in 2015, initially just for Science ALs to help build community cohesion and offer a way for science ALs to share good practice. The programme has been running successfully for 9 years, and has adapted to changing circumstances.

    July 2024 to July 2025

    Perceptions and Experiences of STEM Academic Promotion (Professorial): Case study from the Open University, UK

  7. Diane ButlerSoraya Kouadri MostéfaouiJimena GorfinkielMark McJury

    8. The study adopts a qualitative approach to determine academics’ experiences and perceptions of the Professorial Promotions process (PB1 only) within the Faculty of STEM, Open University.

    November 2022 to September 2024

    Exploring life competences and green skills for 21st century designers

  8. Emma DewberryVera Hale

    9. This project aligns with current developments in the Open University to explore the relationship between Sustainability goals, curriculum design and opportunities for progressing employability outcomes.

    May 2025 to September 2025

    Exploring student perception of laboratory workbooks: authentic learning or missed opportunity?

  9. Karen NewLorraine WatersSarah Daniell

    10. Accurate record keeping is an important employability skill that students need to develop in any scientific discipline.

    May 2025 to November 2026

    Understanding different perspectives of postgraduate education in the international arena

  10. Leonor Barroca

    11. This project was set up to investigate the short term opportunities in international markets (focus on Portugal and Brazil) for the OU’s postgraduate offerings in ICT & Computing (with a focus on software engineering).

    April 2011 to June 2012

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