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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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    Innovation in online student support

  1. Cath BrownSue Pawley

    2. 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

    A personal tutor scheme to enhance student retention and improve success

  2. Victoria BrownCath Brown

    3. Student retention and continuation are key drivers for this project.

    May 2023 to May 2025

    An evaluation of the use and impact of Network Mapping to support the transition to university of Engineering and Design & Innovation students from the 20% most deprived areas in the UK

  3. Andrea PatelChris Corcoran

    4. The overall project aim was to demonstrate the use of Support Network Mapping as a student-centred approach to support transition to university for undergraduate Engineering and undergraduate Design and Innovation students who reside in areas of the UK associated with higher level of socioeconomi

    May 2023 to March 2025

    Improving accessibility, inclusion, and engagement in synchronous online learning events

  4. Jo Buxton

    5. The research intends to assess how a framework (MACE) can help tutors make online tutorials more accessible and inclusive.

    June 2023 to December 2024

    Study of the potential for digital educational tools to provide more inclusive learning

  5. Miriam FernandezGeoffray Bonnin

    6. This project focuses on the potential for digital educational tools to provide more inclusive learning. More precisely, we will study to what extent two types of interrelated learning analytics models could be exploited to promote inclusion.

    June 2023 to August 2024

    Creating a suite of resources to support students with Maths Anxiety

  6. Sue PawleyNicola McIntyreGemma WarrinerBecca Whitehead

    7. Maths Anxiety can be described as “an emotion that blocks a person’s reasoning ability when confronted with a mathematical situation” [Spicer 2004], in an extreme form, “when confronted with a math problem, the sufferer has sweaty palms, is nauseous, has heart palpitations, and experiences paraly

    May 2023

    A case study analysis of STEM decolonising activity within UK Higher Education Institutions

  7. Zoe Tompkins

    8. The Issues

    May 2023 to April 2024

    Transforming learning and assessment through didactic games in virtual calculus classroom

  8. Ivan Sudakow Andrey Umerski

    9. Didactic games can be a valuable tool that, when coupled with traditional lectures, allows the student to become immersed in the subject, creating a kinetic and energetic environment that will not only help to learn but spark interest in mathematics.

    May 2023 to July 2025

    Exploring timeliness, positivity and collection rates of TMA feedback

  9. Colette Christiansen

    10. The correspondence tuition that tutors provide, via the Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs), is a key part of our teaching and support to students and represents a major investment of time and effort by tutors.

    July 2023 to May 2024

    Evaluating students’ experience of tuition in S217

  10. Adam FreemanAnne-Katrin Klehe

    11. Great effort and time is spent by Associate Lecturers (ALs) on delivering tutorials. Uptake of tutorials in all modules is low. This investigation will concentrate on the experience of students on S217, a second level physics module.

    May 2023 to September 2025

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