15th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2026 Recording: Day Two, Parallel Session L

Parallel Session L: Interactive Oral Presentations – Access, Participation and Success. Intranet only.

• Willow Neal, Emmanuel Zuza, Kat Gauld, Elaine McPherson, Christopher Hutton and Ellesar Elhaggag – Patterns of Inequality in STEM Degree Awarding for LGBTQ+ Students in Distance Learning
• Louise MacBrayne, Jennie Bellamy, Isabella Henman and Kate Gibson – Postcode Inequity: Closing the Awarding Gap for Stage 1 STEM Students residing in our most deprived UK postcodes
• Alice Fraser-McDonald, Sally Jordan, David Sharp and Teresa Sides – Progression of OU STEM students from taught courses to postgraduate research – motivations and barriers