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Nine members of the EPI*STEM centre, Prof John O’Donoghue, Dr Patrick Johnson, Dr Niamh O’Meara, Dr Ciara Lane, Dr Richard Walsh, Aoife Smith, Kathy O’ Sullivan, Bernie Ní Dhonnchú and Aoife Guerin  travelled to Hamburg University, Germany to participate in the ICME 13 conference. Prof John O’Donoghue John was an invited lecturer at ICME-13. John’s paper attempts to develop an Continue Reading

Alison Cullinane and Sila Kaya recently attended the 13th Summer School of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Summer School 2016 at České Budějovice, Czech Republic.  This is an intensive summer school that took place over the week of August 22nd to 26th 2016. It comprised of workshops, lectures and seminars designed to help improve and motivate PhD research. Continue Reading

Sibel Erduran and Onur Imren attended the International Conference of East-Asian Association for Science Education (EASE) held from August 26-28 in Tokyo, Japan.   Sibel Erduran presented the following papers at the conference with co-author Ebru Kaya: (a) Infusing epistemic practices in chemistry curricula: A theoretical framework; (b) Bird’s eye view on science: Pre-service science teachers’ representations of nature of science; (c) Using political Continue Reading

The TEMI project formally finishes at the end of July 2016. The UL team is holding a TEMI National Conference on Tuesday June 7th in UL. This will give an opportunity to bring back TEMI teachers from all 6 cohorts to meet each other but also to share their work with other science teachers and stakeholders. The conference will include Continue Reading

TEMI, Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated, is an EU-funded FP7 project aimed at encouraging inquiry-based science education. The project was coordinated by Queen Mary College, London and the University of Limerick was one of the 12 European partners. The UL team was led by Dr Peter Childs and the project ran from 2013 to 2106. The project was based around the Continue Reading

Dr Niamh O’Meara has received funding from the Irish Research Council , under the New Foundations Scheme (€10,000) and SCoTENS (£5,000), to conduct a research project entitled “Mind the Gap: A Cross Border Study Addressing the Transition from Primary to Post Primary Mathematics Education”. This study is being conducted in collaboration with three other third level institutes namely, Trinity College Continue Reading

Liam Guilfoyle, a PhD Researcher in EPI•STEM, was recently awarded a fellowship from the International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group to attend their European Regional Conference in Flensburg, Germany. The conference will be held at the Europa-Universität in Flensburg, August 22nd – 25th 2016. The International History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Group was formed in 1987. The group is Continue Reading

Professor Sibel Erduran has participated in project meetings and led teacher education workshops at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey during the week of March 28th, 2016 as part of her involvement in a funded project entitled  "Nature of science in science teacher education: A comparative research and development project” led by Associate Professor Ebru Kaya and funded by Bogazici. The project team includes Continue Reading

Graduates from this programme constitute a very considerable contribution to mathematics teaching at Junior Cycle resulting in a better experience and outcome for all post-primary students. The programme and its graduates will contribute hugely to the further development and roll-out of the Project Maths curriculum at Junior and Senior Cycle as well as continued contribution to STEM education, future skills Continue Reading

On Wednesday 23rd March 2016 representatives from Johnson & Johnson visited the University of Limerick to discuss its partnership to help increase the number of undergraduate women enrolling in and declaring majors in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design (STEM2D). The University of Limerick is one of 10 partnerships that Johnson & Johnson will be engaged Continue Reading