Access, Participation and Success

Improving and evaluating inclusivity in group project work for distance-learning engineering students

Alice Moncaster Hedieh Jazaeri

Projects and teamwork are the predominant context in which most engineers work. Providing supported learning experience of such contexts supports employability for our students.

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Accessibility and inclusion in tuition (AccIT)

Rachel Slater Anne Campbell Elaine McPherson

The AccIT project has four main aims:

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Factors influencing female participation in Physical Science Postgraduate Research Programmes

Clare Reger Mark Bowden Anne-Marie Gallen

The aim of this project was to conduct a scoping study into why lower numbers of female graduates choose nuclear fusion Ph.D.s relative to other physical sciences. This is a particularly nuanced study as we are considering the nuclear fusion research pathway in comparison to other STEM routes.

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Evaluating the accessibility of an alternative format of module materials in Maths & Stats

Chris Hughes

Winner of the 3rd eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2020 under the category - Enhancing the Student Experience.

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Engaging stakeholders as experts in the trial and evaluation of Disability Language Guidance

Elaine McPherson Kate Lister

To support inclusive and equitable study, universities often categorise students as ‘disabled’ for them to access specific support for their studies and require them to engage with terms such as ‘disclosing a disability’ and ‘reasonable adjustments’.

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Sonification partial pilot on M140

Karen Vines Chris Hughes

Sonifications are audio representations of graphs, and as such are an ‘alternative format’ which could be used to improve accessibility of module materials.

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Engineering qualifications at the OU – what motivates women to study?

Carol Morris Sally Organ

Winner of the 3rd Best Poster Competition at the 7th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2018.

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Gendered Choices - Motivation and degree choices of Computing and IT students: a gendered analysis

Clem Herman

This study investigates the gendered degree choices and motivations of Computing and IT students.

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Sonification of depictions of numerical data

Karen Vines Chris Hughes

Winner of the 1st eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2018 under the category – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching.

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Gender Differences in completion and credit obtained in Level 2 study in Physical Sciences

Pam Budd

​Winner of the 2nd Best Poster Competition at the 6th eSTEeM Annual Conference, 25-26 April 2017.

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