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The challenges and opportunities of incorporating community-based learning into STEM subjects

Lead Institution: University of Bristol
Collaborating with: Bournemouth University, University of the West of England

This is a sub-project of Get STEM working: innovation with employer and student engagement

Summary

This project aimed to explore the challenges and opportunities of incorporating community-based placements into the undergraduate curriculum - engaging with the voluntary and community sector and testing the academic processes for assessing these projects within engineering degrees.

Aims & Objectives

  • Scope the potential for community-based projects that might form projects for third year engineering students
  • Test the academic processes for assessing these projects within engineering degrees
  • Develop a tool to enable any university department to include community-based experiential learning within its degree frameworks, which will be directly informed by the practical experiment within the engineering faculty.
  • Investigate the opportunities rolling out such opportunities across the whole University and sector

Staff involved

Dr Maggie Leggett
Project lead, University of Bristol

Kate Miller
Project coordinator, University of Bristol

Caroline Drake
University of Bristol

Christine Keenan
Bournemouth University

David Owen
University of the West of England

Lucian Cawthron
University of Bristol

Penny Mitchell
Bournemouth University