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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Alice Moncaster Hedieh Jazaeri
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
Laura Alexander Linda Moore Victoria Nicholas
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
Sarah Daniell Lorraine Waters
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
Colin Blundell
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
Nicole Lotz Muriel Sippel
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
Sue Pawley
Winner of the 6th Best Poster Competition at the 10th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 30 June -1 July 2021.
November 2020 to December 2023
Miriam Fernandez Martin Hlosta Tracie Farrell
Highly Commended at the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.
November 2020 to August 2022
Cathy Smith Charlotte Lighter
This report focusses on an in‐depth study of 12 students identified as ‘improvers’ in Mathematics Education modules.
December 2020 to September 2023
Chris Corcoran
This project will take an intersectional approach and examine the student experience from the combined perspectives of BAME and disability as many students fall into more than one of these categories: in 2019 there were 10,543 students registered in STEM of which 1,246 were BAME and 2,079 were re
October 2021 to January 2025
Mustafa Ali
Decolonising the curriculum (DTC) is a university-wide initiative within the broader decolonising the university (DTU) project overseen by the EDI Dean with mandate from the VC. The current focus of DTC work in the STEM faculty is on Level 1 modules in all schools.
June 2021 to February 2023
