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

  1. James WarrenGeorgy Holden

    2. 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

  2. Kay BromleyJill ShawJoan Jackson

    3. 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

  3. Louise MacBrayneZoë Chapman

    4. 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

    Investigation of widening participation and success in postgraduate technology and computing

  4. Donald EdwardsMark Slaymaker

    5. 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

  5. Jill ShawRehana AwanJim Gillen Mark SlaymakerKatharine Jewitt

    6. 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

  6. Ruth Neal Kellee Patterson

    7. 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 December 2025

    Innovation in online student support

  7. Cath BrownSue Pawley

    8. 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

  8. Victoria BrownCath Brown

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

    May 2023 to May 2025

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

  9. Jo Buxton

    10. 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

  10. Miriam FernandezGeoffray Bonnin

    11. 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

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