Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) working group

This working group has been set up to share practice and ideas about ways to improve outreach activity, support access, and effectively support success and progression in STEM. Intersecting gendered, raced and classed patterns of participation and progression in STEM subjects remain entrenched, despite well over a decade of WP initiatives targeting these subject areas. The working group will provide opportunities to explore practice alongside approaches to evaluation, with a view to enabling more informed, effective, creative and collaborative ways of working.

Themes of interest include:

STEM outreach and access

• collaborative and regional approaches
• pedagogies and student-centred approaches
• working with diverse groups of students and inclusion
• supporting students in primary and early secondary schools
• role models

Supporting student success and progression

• pedagogies and student-centred approaches
• student experiences on course
• supporting diverse groups of students and inclusion
• mentoring and peer support programmes
• supporting career progression

Evaluating programmes

• creative and rigorous approaches to evaluation
• effective evaluation tools
• using theory and research to support evaluation

If you're interested in joining this group, contact NERUPI

Co Leads:

Dr Clare Gartland, NERUPI Co-Convenor

Dr Ada Mau, Outreach Research and Evaluation Officer, Imperial College London