Access, Participation and Success

Normally at the Open University Students in Secure Environments (SiSE) are allocated in small numbers to standard tutor groups to form mixed groups of 20 students, of whom 1 or 2 would typically be SiSE students.

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

The AccIT project has four main aims:

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.

Winner - Enhancing the Student Experience, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2020.

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’.

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

Winner - Best Poster Presentation, 7th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2018.

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

Winner – Innovative/Original Approach to Teaching, eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2018.