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Professor Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Professor of STEM Education and Director of EPI•STEM was recently appointed as a delegate from Ireland to a group of eight expert researchers across Europe tasked with researching a series of reports for European policymakers and governments in relation to a futuristic view of Education & Skills [see the link to EPI•STEM Faculty and Staff]. The resulting reports on Education & Skills will provide research from the humanities and the social sciences and do this through scoping literature reviews drawn from a variety of methodologies. The social scientific problem under interrogation is how to arrive at a fair and sustainable green and digital transition in a future Europe through Education & Skills, EC Horizon Funded Research projects in Social Transformations & Resilience (STR) from 2027 onwards

EPI•STEM links to the Science Education Research Group at the University of Oxford in the UK through Professor Sibel Erduran, a former Director of EPI•STEM and now an Adjunct Professor of Science Education in EPI•STEM [see link to ADJUNCT PROFESSORS]. Professor Sibel Erduran is an internationally renowned Professor of Science Education and is currently leading a Futures-Oriented Special Interest Group in Science Education at the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)

EPI•STEM has a well-established link with Professor Merrilyn Goos, an internally renowned Professor of Mathematics Education who was a former Director of EPI•STEM, and now an Adjunct Professor in EPI•STEM. Professor Merrilyn Goos is Professor Emeritus from the Sunshine Coast University in Queensland, Australia and Vice President of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction (ICMI).

EPI•STEM has recently forged a link to Professor Sara Tolbert’s research team, the newly appointed Professor of STEM Education at the University of Melbourne at Monash in Australia and keynote speaker in the Reimagining Science Education Conference in EPI•STEM in 2024. Alongside colleagues, Professor Sara Tolbert leads out the new SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE IMPACT LAB. The impact lab positions science education at the intersection of nature, culture and society. This invites a rethink about how we teach science today and how we need to equip young people with new capabilities to address complex issues of our time by recognising the complex relationships between ecological systems, political and economic structures and sociocultural practices that shape our current planetary conditions. You can hear about Prof Sara Tolbert’s work through listening to the EPI•STEM PODCAST, number 19.
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Professor Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Director of EPI•STEM recently forged a new link to the STEAM education research work of Professor Laura Colucci-Gray, Chair of Science and Sustainability Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, The University of Edinburgh. From 2015 to 2017, Prof Mooney Simmie worked with a group of researchers at the University of Aberdeen,headed by Prof Colucci-Gray, to arrive at a best view of STEAM Education as embodied cognition, a report commissioned by the British Education Research Association. The report is published on the BERA website. Reviewing the potential and challenges of developing STEAM education through creative pedagogies for 21st learning: how can school curricula be broadened towards a more responsive, dynamic, and inclusive form of education? British Educational Research Association. Recently, Professor Mooney Simmie accepted an invitation for EPI•STEM to work again with Prof Colucci Gray on a new Research & Innovation project that will design a new futuristic roadmap for STEAM Education.