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Ten female students were presented with bursaries by global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) as part of its WiSTEM2D Award Programme at a ceremony at University of Limerick (UL) on Wednesday, November 22. WiSTEM2D  refers to Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Manufacturing and Design. This is the second year of this initiative which is an integral part of Continue Reading

The 12th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, and took place on August 21-25, 2017 in Dublin, Ireland. UL’s EPI-STEM and CASTeL at Dublin City University (DCU) were co-hosts for the ESERA Conference.  This was the biggest ESERA conference to date with over 1500 delegates attending the event from over 75 countries worldwide.  The conference enabled audiences to Continue Reading

The 1st Teaching and Teacher Education in STEM Education Seminar will take place on 26th May 2017 in the University of Limerick and is hosted by EPI-STEM, the National STEM Education Research Centre. Click here for further information  

The 10th Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME10) was held in Croke Park, Dublin from February 1st – February 5th. In total 468 papers were presented across the 5 days with delegates from 52 countries in attendance. EPI●STEM was represented at CERME 10 as both Dr Ciara Lane and Dr Niamh O’Meara presented their current work at the Continue Reading

The University of Limerick conferred a third cohort of graduands of the Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching (PDMT) on Saturday 21st January 2017. This year 187 teachers graduated from the two-year part-time programme, which was initiated in 2012 by government contract. As registered post-primary teachers and graduates of the programme, they are deemed by the Teaching Council to have met Continue Reading

Five female students were presented with J&J WiSTEM2D awards on the 1st Dec by Prof Don Barry in the University of Limerick. Johnson and Johnson in partnership with University of Limerick announced the WiSTEM2D Award on the 15th Sep 2016. The award is part of a larger project supported by Johnson and Johnson aimed at promoting and assisting female students Continue Reading

An international symposium was held at EPI-STEM from October 26-28, 2016 on the theme of nature of science in science education. There were participants from the USA, UK, Canada, Finland, Spain, Turkey, Israel as well as Ireland. The opening speech was given by Barry Slattery from NCCA outlining the importance of the nature of science theme in the new Irish Continue Reading

EPISTEM researchers Joanne Broggy, John O'Reilly, Sibel Erduran and Grainne Walshe have contributed 2 chapters to a new science education book published by Sense Publishers and edited by Professors Keith Taber from University of Cambridge, UK and Ben Akpan from Science Teachers' Association of Nigeria.    

On the 10th-12th October 2016 EPI*STEM, National Centre for STEM Education, School of Education, hosted a STEM Colloquium with a team of twelve academics affiliated to the Swedish National Centre for School Technology Education (CETIS). The visit was coordinated by Dr Keelin Leahy, University of Limerick, with Dr Thomas Ginner, Senior adviser, and Dr Claes Klasander, Director of CETIS. The Continue Reading

New continuous professional development (CPD) resources for science teaching has been produced at EPI-STEM. The work stems from a project led by Professor Sibel Erduran with participation of colleagues from Bogazici University, Turkey and University of Delaware, USA. The project aimed to infuse scientific practices in pre-service science teacher education by engaging the participants in scientific practices such as evidence-based Continue Reading