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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Postcard Confessions: Deepening Understanding of Students via their Hopes and Dreams

James WarrenGeorgy Holden

We think that we know our students, but do we fully understand their hopes the reality of their daily lives?

April 2022 to June 2023

Postgraduate Project Management: evaluation of student employability skills development

Kay BromleyJill ShawJoan Jackson

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

Is the cost of home experiments a potential barrier to learning? Experiences from two level one science modules

Louise MacBrayneZoë Chapman

Practical work in the form of home experiments has always formed an integral part of the science curriculum, in particular at level one. The move, however, from printed materials to online delivery has been accompanied by a change in the way students are supported in home experiments.

November 2022 to February 2025

Ecoanxiety and environmental education: stories, conversations, actions

Sarah Davies

Ecoanxiety – the distress related to climate and ecological crises – is increasingly recognised in learners by educators (Hickman et al, 2021), in the media (e.g., BBC Ideas 2021, Rannard, 2022) as well as through programmes of advice and education (e.g., Wright, 2022).

November 2022 to April 2024

Investigation of widening participation and success in postgraduate technology and computing

Donald EdwardsMark Slaymaker

This project seeks to understand our current performance against EDI, widening participation and success (WPS) targets on postgraduate qualifications run by the schools of C&C and E&I, collectively Postgraduate Technology and Computing (PTC).

November 2022 to November 2023

Academic conduct referrals and students from underrepresented groups

Jill ShawRehana AwanJim Gillen Mark SlaymakerKatharine Jewitt

The project will investigate patterns in the demographics and referral data, and student perceptions for Level 1 students who are referred to the Academic Conduct (AC) Office within C&C. Several research projects (e.g.

November 2022 to December 2024

Assessment and Feedback on Introduction of Group Work on M140

Ruth Neal Kellee Patterson

The aim of this project is to assess the impact on M140 of introducing group work, gain feedback from students and tutors and learn from this experience before rolling this out to all students.

May 2023 to September 2024

Innovation in online student support

Cath BrownSue Pawley

Due to the increasing popularity of the Data Science degree, MST224, Mathematical methods, student numbers have increased significantly. This has resulted in the employment of significant numbers of Associate Lecturers (ALs), and we would like to use the resultant increase in tutorial ti

May 2023 to November 2024