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Welcome to the eSTEeM blog, a place for STEM colleagues and students to connect, discuss and disseminate all things Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) related. If you would like to contribute to this blog, then please contact us.

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AI in Education: Helpful Tutor, Study Buddy or Threat to Learning?

The hot topic of the use of GenAI in education continues this month with an article by Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Senior Lecturer and Scholarship Lead for the School of Computing and Communications.

19 October 2026

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How disseminating your scholarship can expand horizons

Another month, another blog post! This month we welcome Cath Brown who reflects on how valuable external dissemination activities are for scholarship practitioners

5 October 2026

Janette and Zoë with their poster produced at the retreat.

The importance of face-to-face spaces for home workers when working in online education and educational research

An extra treat for you this month. Janette Wallace explains the benefits and value of face-to-face reading and writing retreats when working remotely in enriching a community of SoTL practitioners and educational researchers.

21 September 2026

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Teaching in a virtual environment

This month's blog is brought to us by Sarah Daniell, who discusses her innovative scholarship work focusing on the use of virtual reality to aid teaching and learning.

7 September 2026