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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Linda Moore Nicola McIntyre
Poor attendance at online synchronous tutorials has been an ongoing problem. One of the aims of the introduction of the group tuition policy was to address this problem by giving students more choice. Based on the evidence seen thus far, this has not resulted in better attendance and it has also
June 2017 to December 2021
Hayley Ryder Tacey O'Neil
There is much research regarding students who struggle mathematically early (school, Y1 UG) but not for good students who `hit a wall’ at level 3. Some persevere while others drop-out.
October 2017 to September 2024
Eleanor Crabb Jane Loughlin
Credit transfer students are often regarded as having the potential to succeed in distance learning.
May 2019 to December 2021
Catherine Halliwell Jenny Duckworth
The level 3 module Evaluating Contemporary Science (S350), helps students learn, develop and apply important key skills such as evaluation of current science research and communication of these findings to different audiences, along with professional skills such as time-management, giving constru
May 2019 to April 2022
David Conway Christine Gardner Janet Hughes
Winner of the 5th Best Poster Competition at the 9th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 29-30 April 2020.
December 2019 to November 2021
Carol Calvert Rachel Hilliam
Students taking qualifications mainly in science, economics and data sciences are now the majority of the students on a second-year undergraduate statistics course.
March 2020 to November 2021
Mark Jones Helen Fraser
Astronomy is a subject area with broad appeal, being a topic of interest both for students intending to specialise in astrophysics and for those who simply wish to know more about our place in the Universe.
June 2020 to December 2021
Cathryn Peoples
According to the social constructivist model of learning, social opportunities are considered to be important in an educational experience for their positive influence. The principle is that the learning can be reinforced through the interaction with others.
August 2020 to March 2022
Andrew Potter Delyth Tomos Chris Hughes
Welsh-medium education has attracted increased attention over the past 50 years. Much research has been conducted in secondary and higher education contexts, including the teaching and learning of mathematics in Welsh.
November 2020 to December 2022
Fadlalla Elfadaly
Predicting the passing probabilities of an online module has always been an interest in higher education. It helps in planning, decision making, providing feedback to students and also in helping students work around any difficulties or milestones that are predicted to affect their results.
November 2020 to December 2022
