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eSTEeM 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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    Evaluating the Programming for Physical Sciences website and forums on SM123 Physics and Space

  1. Andy DiamentGemma Warriner

    2. Students on SM123 Physics and space learn programming in Python across the module. Some find it straightforward, others very difficult.

    December 2023 to December 2024

    Gaining a deeper understanding of the experience and equitability of extensions and their impact on retention for Stage 1 Engineering students

  2. Emma Champion

    3. Previous scholarship has shown that students with extensions have poorer outcomes on modules and that extensions are used by a higher proportion of students within Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) groups.

    February 2024 to December 2024

    Evaluating the outcomes of embedding coding activities in an advanced physics and astronomy module

  3. Judith Croston

    4. Two key barriers to student success in advanced physics and astronomy modules are (i) the abstract nature of key concepts that are far removed from everyday life, and (ii) the use of complex maths formalism that can obscure physical interpretation.

    August 2024 to July 2026

    How do students use tutorial recordings and which formats are most effective?

  4. Cath BrownCatherine OnionsCharlotte Hancox

    5. Post-pandemic, students’ live attendance at online tutorials has declined significantly but it is not uncommon to see hundreds of views of recordings.

    June 2024 to June 2027

    Supporting learning with a collaborative notetaking tool to work within a Jupyter Notebook environment

  5. Oli Howson

    6. At the moment M269 students work entirely within the Jupyter infrastructure. Notetaking is not built in to Jupyter, although a rudimentary plugin has been developed for students to do so.

    July 2024 to December 2025

    Improving completion of remote examinations in physics

  6. Sally JordanJonathan NylkBecca Whitehead

    7. The project seeks to extend earlier investigations into the factors that enable students to do themselves justice in remote online exams in physics and related subjects, by encouraging them to attempt the exam in the first place and to complete a reasonable number of questions to an appropriate l

    June 2024 to September 2025

    Gamification to increase participation in maths practice quizzes in Level 1 Engineering modules

  7. Silvia Varagnolo

    8. The aim of this project is to improve students’ engagement with maths exercise through the gamification of existing practice quizzes. The specific context is T192 (the first module in the Engineering Qualification) which already features weekly maths practice quizzes.

    June 2024 to December 2025

    Students’ emotion regulation when learning online

  8. Jake Hilliard

    9. The purpose of this project is to explore students’ emotion regulation practices while studying online. Specifically, this study will investigate how and why students manage their own emotions, as well as examine whether they try to influence their peers' emotions in these learning settings.

    June 2024 to June 2025

    Exploring student’s self-efficacy in response to modular events during introductory level science modules

  9. Sam Johnson

    10. Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief that they can successfully complete a particular task. Self-efficacy has been shown to be strongly predictive of performance and retention. Current studies are largely cross-sectional and do not explore how self-efficacy changes throughout a module.

    October 2024 to January 2026

    Online practical work for science and engineering students

  10. Mark Endean

    11. 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.

    April 2011 to August 2012

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