STEM teaching and research

Advice for academics and lecturers working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths to help advance STEM research and teaching. These resources cover issues such as how to widen participation and get more women into STEM fields, preparing students for STEM careers, managing the impact of AI on STEM learning, building industry collaborations and communicating STEM research for greater impact.

By Miranda Prynne, 22 August, 2022

Helping students see biology within a broader context

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Should educators help students understand their chosen subjects within a broader context of learning? Mark Coleman has been experimenting with this in his biology course and shares his findings so far
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5minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 4 August, 2022

Address STEM inequality by reconceiving merit

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The cultural yardsticks used to measure merit in STEM are warped with bias and often devalue women, people of colour and LGBTQ+ scientists with records equal to white heterosexual male peers. To fix STEM inequality, academia must reconceive merit
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 7 July, 2022

Foundations to lay when teaching computational and data skills

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Traditional teaching in data analysis focuses on statistics and visualisation but an emphasis on foundational data and computational skills is needed to prepare students to work with real data, explains Philip Leftwich
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3minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 7 June, 2022

Helping students tackle terminology barriers

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Lots of new terminology can leave students feeling overwhelmed. Sonja Dunbar shares one way to build student confidence when encountering discipline-specific terms
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3minutes
STEM teaching and research