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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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    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.

    August 2021 to July 2022

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

  1. Alec GoodyearIestyn JowersJan KowalCarol MorrisDavid Sharp

    2. 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.

    April 2021 to December 2021

    Online peer mentoring at scale: Benefits and impacts from a student buddy perspective

  2. Julie RobsonChris Hutton

    3. The benefits of peer mentoring for students studying in Higher Education are well established and have been demonstrated in online, blended and hybrid settings. Best practice in establishing financially sustainable schemes in online settings at a large scale is under researched.

    July 2019 to August 2023

    Embedding research into teaching: practices, motivations and impacts

  3. Sarah Davies

    4. Academics are often interested in using their own research in their teaching – this can be a valuable way of sharing their passion for their subject, connecting students with cutting edge research knowledge, and enabling students to experience authentic science practices.

    November 2021 to April 2023

    Early Start for TM470 project students

  4. Christine Gardner

    5. Students on the IT/computing named degree have a compulsory project to complete at the end of their studies (TM470), yet for some this is a major challenge due to the independent nature of the research, with relatively little taught content in the module.

    October 2021 to April 2023

    Creating a community of support through social activities

  5. Sue PawleyCath Brown

    6. 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.

    October 2021 to September 2023

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

  6. Martin Braun

    7. At the Open University in the UK, final year engineering undergraduates are required to suggest a topic for their project.

    August 2021 to July 2022

    Investigating students perception of some of the key learning activities in T272

  7. Foroogh HosseinzadehAnne-Marie GallenHelen LockettRafael HidalgoMaxim Lamirande

    8. The purpose of this research is to engage with Stage 2 engineering students, studying T272 Core Engineering B module, about different modes of online activities and how effective these are in engaging, informing, and reinforcing their learning.

    May 2021 to March 2023

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

  8. Jotham Gaudoin

    9. 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.

    April 2022 to July 2023

    Understanding the postgraduate research student experience in a culture of collaborative leadership

  9. Ann Grand

    10. How leaders choose to lead inevitably has impacts on those who follow them. From the beginning of AstrobiologyOU, its directors have aspired to lead the group collaboratively.

    April 2022 to April 2023

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