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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Understanding the postgraduate research student experience in a culture of collaborative leadership

Ann Grand

How leaders choose to lead inevitably has impacts on those who follow them. From the beginning of AstrobiologyOU, its directors have aspired to lead the group collaboratively.

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Barriers and Enablers for Future Designers within the awarding gap at the intersection of Race and Deprived Areas

Vera Hale Clive Hilton Alessandra Campoli

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Evaluating Statistics anxiety across different qualifications

Rachel Hilliam

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

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Changing times, changing pedagogies

Rachel Hilliam

The aim of the project was to investigate any lasting impact on how mathematical sciences courses are now taught following the rapid shift in teaching practices during the pandemic.

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

Alexis Lansbury Arabella Nock

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.

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

Kerry Murphy

Improving access to STEM education is viewed globally as a route to economic empowerment.

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Writing retreats for level 1 students

Victoria Nicholas Paul Collier

Students frequently cite time pressure as a challenge to successful study.

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Understanding Passive Withdrawals on S111

Victoria Pearson Linda Moore Maria Velasco

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 AL

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Postcard Confessions: Deepening Understanding of Students via their Hopes and Dreams

James Warren Georgy Holden

We think that we know our students, but do we fully understand their hopes the reality of their daily lives?

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Can we reduce anxiety of students sitting remote exams? Sharing best practice between SPS and LHCS

Gemma Warriner Fiona Moorman Becca Whitehead

Winner of the 8th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Award 2025.

Our project was a cross school collaboration between the School of Physical Sciences (SPS) and the Life, Health and Chemical Sciences (LHCS).

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