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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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    Creating a community of support through social activities

  1. Sue PawleyCath Brown
  2. A number of STEM students find their modules academically demanding; success for such students requires the development of resilience and a growth mindset, as discussed in Johnston-Wilder and Lee (2010.

    October 2021 to September 2023

    Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Badged Open Course

  3. Shailey MinochaDiane Butler
  4. This free Badged Open Course (BOC) titled Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL

    January 2021 to September 2021

    Exploring a Peer Support Structure for Jupyter Notebooks and R on M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling)

  5. Jotham Gaudoin
  6. M348 (Applied Statistical Modelling) is a new module in applied statistics that will involve developing skills in the R software package via the use of Jupyter notebooks. It is a compulsory module for students on several qualifications and these students have a range of different backgrounds.

    April 2022 to July 2023

    Evaluating Statistics anxiety across different qualifications

  7. Rachel Hilliam
  8. This project addresses findings that were suggested from the evaluation of the project “How one module can serve multiple qualification t

    April 2022 to December 2024

    Changing times, changing pedagogies

  9. Rachel Hilliam
  10. 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

    Curriculum Development in Computing and Communications: Enabling the Student Voice, Facilitating Employability and Exploring Students’ Personal and Professional Aspirations

  11. Alexis LansburyArabella Nock
  12. This project will investigate whether our current C&C curriculum meets the personal and professional aspirations and employability needs of our students and identify curriculum-gaps from our students’ perspectives.

    April 2022 to October 2023

    OpenSTEM Africa: Ghana - Test and Learn with the University of Cape Coast

  13. Kerry Murphy
  14. Improving access to STEM education is viewed globally as a route to economic empowerment.

    April 2022 to July 2023

    Writing retreats for level 1 students

  15. Victoria NicholasPaul Collier
  16. Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.

    August 2022 to August 2023

    Understanding Passive Withdrawals on S111

  17. Victoria PearsonLinda MooreMaria Velasco-Garcia
  18. In every presentation of S111, there has been a percentage of students who remain registered until the end of the module but have had limited or even no engagement with the module content and assessment.  In some cases, they may have never logged on to the VLE at all despite attempts from ALs and

    April 2022 to December 2023