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Upcoming event

SIG Meet & Discuss: STEAM Education Research

This session is focused on learning more about what’s going on in STEAM education research and how we can work together in the future.

We are setting up a series of 90-minute on-line sessions for the academic year 2025-6 to develop our collective thinking and practice in relation to recent STEAM research and publications. Members are invited to volunteer to co-lead a session where they have identified a paper which they consider important for our community to engage with and facilitate discussion around it.

We will review the 3 proposed themes for the coming year:

  1. The purpose of STEAM
  2. Conditions, characteristics and typologies
  3. Models and designs

STEAM 3-18 – How do we do it?

We are also planning for several events looking at how educators internationally are developing STEAM education and to what effect.

SIG members to informally share their own and known current project and events to develop our networks.

Draft Programme

16:00    Welcome and SIG member introductions to each other.

16:05    Reviewing and developing STEAM SIG programme 2025-6

16:25    Spotlighting STEAM Education Research. 

16:45    What’s going on? SIG members’ contributions (own or others research projects)

17:00    Close of event

Convenors

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Rory McDonald, Dr

Visiting Academic at The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Rory McDonald is a Visiting Academic at Liverpool John Moores University. Through his doctoral research he explored the notion of ‘Engineering Capital’ and the value of subject area-specific applications of Bourdieuian theory.

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Jo Trowsdale, Dr

Senior Lecturer at Newman University

Jo Trowsdale is a senior lecturer at Newman University Birmingham. She is a former teacher, teacher educator (primary and secondary) and director of a creative learning programme supporting more than 160 schools in addressing development issues...