Events & Media

On September 19th and 20th 2019, Dr Niamh O’Meara and Ms Kathy O’Sullivan attended a partners meeting in Linz, Austria to further advance their work on an Erasmus+ funded project which is seeking to develop a Common European Numeracy Framework [CENF]. At this meeting partners from Holland, Austria, Spain and Ireland laid the foundations for the CENF and discussed ideas Continue Reading

Tracey O Connell, WiSTEM²D Programme Co-Ordinator presented a poster at the ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) Conference, which took place in Bologna Italy in August 2019. Tracey presented on her research looking at the impact of the WiSTEM²D (Women in STEM2D) Programme on female participants’ confidence levels. The conference was attended by over 1500 participants’ from 58 countries  

From August 4th – 9th 2019, the 15th Mathematics Education for the Future Project conference was held in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. The theme for the conference was Theory and Practice: an Interface or a Great Divide? and the conference attracted both national and international academics. Dr Niamh O’Meara was on the Local Organising Committee for this conference and also presented Continue Reading

        The 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education took place in Pretoria, South Africa from July 7th – July 12th 2019. The theme of the conference was Improving Access to the Power of Mathematics. EPI STEM was well represented at this conference with Prof. Merrilyn Goos, Ms Jillian White, Ms Continue Reading

              Prof Merrilyn Goos presented at the 42nd Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) Conference at Curtin University, Perth, Australia (30th June – 4th July, 2019). The presentation entitled: Impact of a National Professional Development Program on the Beliefs and Practices of Out-of-Field Teachers of Mathematics, was co-authored by Prof Merrilyn Goos, Dr Continue Reading

On November 7th 2019, the University of Limerick and Johnson and Johnson collaboration known as the WiSTEM²D Programme was brought together once again at Plassey House. The 10 Individual Award Winners and 3 runners up were presented with their awards. The ‘Women in Science Technology Engineering, Mathematics, Manufacturing and Design (WiSTEM2D) awards ceremony at the University of Limerick was a Continue Reading

Tracey O Connell, WiSTEM²D Programme Co-Ordinator presented a poster at the ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) Conference, which took place in Bologna Italy in August 2019. Tracey presented on her research looking at the impact of the WiSTEM²D (Women in STEM2D) Programme on female participants’ confidence levels. The conference was attended by over 1500 participants’ from 58 countries.

The “Conference on Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?”. The conference marks the end of a three-year collaborative project called “Gender Gap in Science”, whose goals were to study the barriers that prevent women from achieving success in science research and to produce data to eliminate Continue Reading

In September 2019 Colleagues from the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University visited EPI•STEM, the National Centre for STEM Education. WSU colleagues, expertise spans mathematics and science education, educational technology, educational psychology ,social psychology, sociology of education, teacher professional development, health education, and higher education. During their visit the following series of seminars was presented: Discontinuity across the Continue Reading

Mathematical Modelling for Teachers A Practical guide to Applicable Mathematics Education Jurgen Maaz, Niamh O Meara, Patrick Johnson, John O Donoghue While there are many areas of focus in mathematics education, there are many good reasons for offering applicable mathematics education in schools. Let us just mention two of the most important reasons. On the one hand, a focus on the practical Continue Reading