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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Hayley Ryder
Highly Commended at the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020 under the category - Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.
October 2016 to November 2019
Paul Piwek Simon Savage
Winner of the 6th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2023.
June 2019 to June 2022
Katja Rietdorf Jane Loughlin
This project will investigate the impact on student performance and module results of engagement with specific question types in formative assessment and with resources designed to support skills development. Specifically, we will analyse if:
September 2021 to May 2022
Jenny Duckworth Harriet Marshall
Student engagement and learning is strongly driven by assessment feedback. On the interdisciplinary module SDT306 (Environment: Responding to Change), tutors grade and provide feedback against learning outcomes (LOs) using a marking grid.
August 2021 to February 2023
Nigel Gibson Kate Sim
This project aims to investigate using dynamically shared marking documents to support new tutors. In the process it will also provide this group some additional mentoring, and it allow experienced tutors to reflect on their own work and to share and develop good practice.
October 2021 to June 2023
Anton Dil Sharon Dawes
The level two module Object-oriented programming with Java (M250) was rewritten for 2021, informed by student feedback and changes to our Level 1 offerings.
April 2022 to February 2024
Rachel Hilliam
Since March 2020, there has been much change in the higher education learning and teaching of the mathematical sciences. With the onset of Covid19, universities have needed to rapidly adapt their to teaching to an online environment.
April 2022 to December 2022
Jonathan Nylk Andy Diament
The aim of this project is to evaluate the level of student engagement with the online quizzes on S217 Physics: from Classical to Quantum , comparing the current model of assessment with a formative thresholded assessment model which has been shown to have a marked positive impact on stud
November 2022 to August 2023
Martin Braun
Recent news on wildfires, flooding and heatwaves illustrates the effect of climate change on humankind. Closely linked is the issue of sustainability, the wise use of resources now so that we and future generations can enjoy a reasonable standard of living.
November 2023 to September 2025
