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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Using knowledge from Associate Lecturers in a Bayesian model to predict the probability of students’ results

Fadlalla Elfadaly

Predicting the passing probabilities of an online module has always been an interest in higher education. It helps in planning, decision making, providing feedback to students and also in helping students work around any difficulties or milestones that are predicted to affect their results.

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Understanding factors influencing BAME students’ achievements within Engineering and Innovation

Carol Morris Rachel Slater

Students from BAME groups appear to perform less well than their white counterparts across all modules in E&I.

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Evaluating the increase in student wellbeing brought about by informal online sessions and computer generated worked examples on a level 3 pure maths module

Hayley Ryder Tacey O'Neil

Issue: student well-being and anxiety. Accessibility of tutorial type resources.

Many students experiencing problems with abstract mathematics either already experience maths anxiety or develop it. They can also lack self-efficacy and mathematical resilience.

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Investigating how to enhance the idea generation process by students for their T452 project

Having taught on project modules at HNC, HND and final UG level (T452), I have observed that the most intense tutor engagement is when discussing possible topics.

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Engineering residential school or home experiments? A comparison from the perspective of both the student and the tutor

Alec Goodyear Iestyn Jowers Jan Kowal Carol Morris David Sharp

Residential schools are essential for accreditation of our engineering qualifications by Professional Engineering Institutions and they have had to be temporarily replaced by a set of practical engineering activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Creating a community of support through social activities

Sue Pawley Cath Brown

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.

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Badged Open Course

Shailey Minocha Diane Butler

This free Badged Open Course (BOC) titled Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teachin

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

Jotham Gaudoin

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

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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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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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