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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

WiSTEM²D 2019/2020 Program Launches! The Women in STEM2D Awards Program officially launched on 15th September 2019. This year, the program is using a promotion video as a method of attracting applicants. Please find the video at the following link: https://vimeo.com/360528145                                 Along with the video, Continue Reading

Limerick and Clare schools selected for “Numeracy Across the Curriculum” pilot programme University of Limerick, Monday 20th May: EPISTEM, the National Centre for STEM Education based in the University of Limerick, today announced a new “Numeracy Across the Curriculum” (NAC) initiative. A year-long research and development project with the goal of developing strategies for teaching numeracy across the curriculum, the initiative will Continue Reading

The 25th of April brought the 2018/19 WiSTEM²D Programme year to a close with the end of year event held in the Millstream Common Room in the University of Limerick. The informal event was attended by staff from EPI*STEM, The faculty of Science and Engineering as well as some form the School of Education to thank everyone for helping throughout 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