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This event is co-developed by the BERA STEAM SIG. 

Facilitated and chaired by: Dr Richard Davies who is the co-convenor of the Academic Practice Network. For more details about the network and its activities, please click here.

Overview

Join us for an online event exploring the future of STEAM education across the UK and beyond.

Shaping STEAM Research to offer Useful Policy for Practice? will bring together findings from three European projects* to ask how research-based recommendations can inform UK education policy and support educators, schools / universities and policy makers in embedding STEAM approaches.

A copy of a draft policy recommendations by UK have been developed by researchers involved in these projects. They will be sent in advance to participants and will form the basis of debate and critical discussion

Schedule

*The three projects are:

1. ROADSTEAMER: Developing a STEAM roadmap for science education in Horizon Europe.

2. Horizons SENSE: Sensory Explorations of nature in school environments

3. STEAM INC Erasmus+ project: STEAM Innovation and Curriculum in HE (STEAM INC)

Speaker bios

Professor Kerry Chappell leads the MA Creative Arts in Education Programme, the Creativity and Emergent Educational Futures Network and the Centre for Research in Transdisciplinary Education. Her research investigates creativity in arts, science and transdisciplinary education and educational futures, alongside participatory research methodologies. Kerry continues to work as a dance-artist within Exeter-based dance lab collective. Kerry is also an Adjunct Professor at the Centre of Creativities, Arts and Science in Education at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway where she contributes dance, transdisciplinarity and creativity in education expertise.

Professor Laura Colucci-Gray specialises in STEM and Sustainability in education. With a background in biology and a PhD in Science education, her work focuses on participatory methodologies and the integration of arts for social justice.  Laura has led several large-scale projects focusing specifically on affective modalities, embodied and enactivist practices to question and reconfigure human societies relationship with nature. Of particular interest is her active involvement with community organisations involved in community-based citizen science and school gardens. Laura has led the first BERA Research commission on STEAM Education putting emphasis on the transdisciplinarity as a modality for bringing together concepts and values; mind and body, communities and place.

Professor Claudia Carter specialises in trans-disciplinary research in the field of environmental governance and planning, and the science of and responses to rapid climate and environmental change. As part of this, a particular interest lies in developing and testing approaches and methods for cross-boundary and collaborative approaches and methods. The STEAM Innovation and Curriculum (STEAM INC) project outputs focus on integrating a STEAM approach in Higher Education.