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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Online practical work for science and engineering students

Mark Endean

This short scoping project aimed to assess the feasibility of and, ideally, shape a longer‐term programme of collaborative working between the Faculties of Science and MCT, and East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai, China.

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How it is different to before? Science students' perceptions of the study experience

Laura Hills John Rose-Adams

This project is a study of the experience of students with a disability studying Science at a time of considerable financial curriculum and technological change.

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Gathering student perception about online/distance practical science at level 1

Victoria Nicholas

This eSTEeM project has investigated student perception about online practical science for two modules at level 1. Students were interviewed and completed online questionnaires before and after studying these modules. The interviews confirmed the anecdotal evidence that students felt mo

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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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Students’ study of online modules

Elaine Moore

The aim of this study was to obtain data on how students studied online modules and to use this to put in place amendments to the current presentation where this could be easily done or to subsequent presentations to enhance the students’ experience.

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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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Gathering student perception about online/distance practical science at level 2

Victoria Nicholas

We describe findings from a study based upon a collaborative project carried out online as the end of module assessment activity of a multidisciplinary science module at the UK Open University.

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Online Chemistry Support Clinics

Nick Chatterton Elaine Moore

The “Chemistry Clinics”, now re-named as “Getting Ready for….”, were initially designed to enhance retention and progression in the second-year chemistry module, S215.

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Understanding and improving students’ learning experience and engagement with practical science on-line: The case of virtual and remote microscopes

Christothea Herodotou

There is a need to better understand what works best for students who study practical science online in order to improve their overall learning experience.

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SDK100 – what aspects of this online only module are the students engaging with?

Vikki Haley-Mirnar Carol Midgley

SDK100 Introduction to health sciences, an evidence-based approach (first presented in October 2015) is the Level 1 entry module for the Q71 BSc Health Sciences pathway. It was the first core module in Science to be delivered entirely online.

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