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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The OpenScience Laboratory

Nick Braithwaite

The OpenScience Laboratory (OSL) was launched in July 2013 with generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation and significant investment from The Open University.

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Activities to improve the engagement of international students in online teaching

Simon Collinson Catherine Halliwell

Online teaching enables students to study from all around the globe to produce a diverse student cohort. As UK universities expand online provision and target international students key questions arise:

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Engaging Opportunities

Rick Holliman

Engaging Opportunities was funded by RCUK from 2013-2016 as one of 12 School-University Partnerships (SUPI).

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Developing robust assessment in the light of Generative AI developments

Liz Hardie Jonquil Lowe Mychelle Pryde Kevin Waugh Mirjam Hauck Francine Ryan Daniel Gooch Volker Patent Kieran McCartney Claire Maguire Mike Richards Heather Richardson

This was a cross-faculty NCFE (Northern Council for Further Education) funded project.

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Career Development for STEM professionals

Clem Herman

The overall aim of this project was to develop a sustainable framework for supporting students into STEM employment, focusing on careers advice and professional development for those who are seeking to enter, return to or progress their careers in this sector.

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Online Presence for Learning and Employability: students' use of profiles in social networking environments

Karen Kear

The widespread use of social network sites means that ‘online presence’ is becoming increasingly important for social, educational and employment purposes. The most obvious examples of users’ online presence can be found in the personal profiles on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

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E-Ambassadors and E-Portfolios: Exploring innovative methods to embed employability in practice based STEM distance learning

Nigel Mason Clem Herman

This project investigated the use of online technologies for the delivery of careers and employability advice to distance learning STEM students with the aim of informing the future development of careers and employability provision.

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Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice at the Workplace

Martin Reynolds

The eSTEeM project was an 18-month systemic inquiry beginning January 2014 initiated by a core team of 5 academics associated with the production and presentation of the postgraduate programme in Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP).

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Enabling Mathematics and Statistics Associate Lecturers to achieve their potential

Rachel Hilliam

In the School of Mathematics and Statistics Associate Lectures (ALs) work across a wide range of modules both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This study was undertaken before the faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology (MCT) merged with the faculty of Science.

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Investigating the careers of Staff Tutors in STEM for Athena SWAN

Rachel Hilliam

Staff Tutors within the STEM Faculty form a large part of the academic workforce and are described as the glue between central academics and students, however the role is varied and complex.

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