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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Martin Reynolds Ray Ison

Research question: what are the opportunities and challenges for re-visioning the role of postgraduate distance learning provision and curriculum design in shifting from a conventional emphasis on developing ‘competencies’ based on learning outcomes (playing ‘the game’ better) to

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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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Fiona Aiken Chris Hutton

S112, Science: concepts and practice, was a new science module at the Open University in 2017.

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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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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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Sally Crighton

The project addresses the issue of good mathematical communication for level one mathematics students.

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Hannah Gauci Janette Wallace

Highly Commended at the 5th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2022.

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Rachel Slater Anne Campbell Elaine McPherson

The AccIT project has four main aims:

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Tom Olney

Highly Commended at the 7th eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024.

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