Events & Media

Professor Merrilyn Goos   Thursday 25th April 2019, 17h30 Foyer of the Graduate Entry Medical School Building   Title  “STEM education for Ireland: From ambition to action”   Reception hosted by Faculty of Education and Health Sciences   Lecture 18h00 in GEMS0016 RSVP by 19th April to: Annie.Bossa@ul.ie  

Professor Janette Bobis, Professor of Mathematics Education and Director of Research in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney.   Friday 12th April 2019, 13h00, Room A1-065 Title of Talk: Developing the Conceptual Sophistication for Ambitious Teaching of Mathematics Abstract: In this presentation, Janet describes particular pedagogies of enactment (Grossman & McDonald, 2008) embedded Continue Reading

Professor Merrilyn Goos has won an Honorary appointment to the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. This scheme provides opportunity and financial support for esteemed international researchers to collaborate with UTS academics for a period of between one and six months. Merrilyn will be in residence at UTS for the whole of March 2019, working in the Continue Reading

In August 2019, EPISTEM will launch the Numeracy Across the Curriculum [NAC] project for schools in the Limerick region. This initiative, which has been successfully implemented in Australia, is a year-long research and development project that develops strategies for teaching numeracy across the curriculum in both primary and secondary schools. The NAC project is a high-quality, certified professional development programme Continue Reading

Adults, Mathematics and Work From Research into Practice John J. Keogh, Theresa Maguire and John O’Donoghue Adults use mathematics extensively in work even though they may deny it or dismiss their numerate behaviour as common sense. Their capacity for mathematics is invisible to them and confirms their ‘non-maths person’ self-perception, which has negative consequences for their life choices. In Adults, Continue Reading

A pilot programme to help schools introduce coding at Junior Cycle is to be extended to a second phase from September 2019, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. has announced. An interim review of the Junior Cycle Coding in Action initiative, published today, showed the positive impact of the initiative on the almost 50 post-primary schools involved in Continue Reading

On the 8th of March at the International Women’s Day conference held in the Bernal Institute on the University of Limerick campus, the 20 WiSTEM²D Team Project Award winners were presented with their awards. This awards presentation embraces the importance of the University of Limerick and Johnson and Johnson collaborative educational programme to support and encourage female students to pursue Continue Reading

On Monday 4th March 2019, Professor Diana Coben, PhD FRSA FHEA, Emeritus Professor of Adult Numeracy at King’s College London and Visiting Professor in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK visited EPI•STEM, the national centre for STEM Education and gave a talk titled: Numeracy for Nursing: A challenge for safety-critical workplace mathematics. The seminar Continue Reading

Career Mathways Awards Night On February 26th 2019, EPISTEM hosted an awards night for the Career Mathways initiative which ran in six schools across Ireland from September 2018 until January 2019. Career Mathways was a novel and exciting, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded project designed for Transition Year students. The project was designed by a team of mathematics education researchers Continue Reading

Professor Diana Coben, PhD FRSA FHEA, is Emeritus Professor of Adult Numeracy at King’s College London and Visiting Professor in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK.   Monday 4th March 13h00 to 14h00, Room A1-065 Title of talk: Numeracy for Nursing: A challenge for safety-critical workplace mathematics Abstract: This seminar will outline current Continue Reading