Interests & Recruitment in Science:
Factors influencing recruitment,retention and gender equity in science,
technology and mathematics higher education
IRIS at PCST conference in Florence, April 2012
IRIS partners will attend the PCST conference that will take place in Florence, from 18.-20. april 2012.
For details please visit the PCST web site.
IRIS at iCERI conference in Madrid, november 2011
IRIS team from IRI UL presented a paper at the conference:
Glodež, N, Hribar, T and Dolinšek, S. (2011) Young people's (and women in particular) priorities and choices related to science and technology education - case of Slovenia.
BIG Event, British Interactive Group Conference July 20th-22nd At-Bristol Science Centre, Bristol
Iris team from King's College, presented a paper at the conference:
Regan, E and Dillon, J. (2011) Choosing undergraduate courses: considerations, experiences and influences of STEM and non-STEM students in England,
IRIS symposium at ESERA conference
The IRIS partners organised a special IRIS Symposium on Friday, 9.9.2011, titled:
"Improving recruitment, retention and gender equity in STEM higher education - a report from project IRIS":
The following papers were presented at th symposium:
PAPER 1:
Interests and Recruitment in Science: Presenting the challenge, introducing project IRIS and its first results
PAPER 2:
The impact of science curriculum content on students’ subject choices in post -compulsory schooling
PAPER 3:
The right choice. Understanding the Italian male and female students’ preferences for STEM degrees
PAPER 4:
Should I stay or should I go? Student retention in STEM higher education programmes
University of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Prof. Jonathan Osborne was a discussant and offered thoughtful comments. The room which was admittedly small was packed with people and a queue formed outside in the lobby.
The IRIS team has during the conference established and strengthened important connections with related researchers and projects, such as the identity research by poeple like Ruurd Taconis in the Netherlands and Marie-Claire Shanahan from Canada, and researchers form the UPMAP project in UK (Michael Reiss and co-workers).
Keynote address at the conference in Brazil, May 2011
by Guiseppe Pellegrini (Observa):
Science, Technology and new generations. Youngsters and STEM studies.
IRIS consortium meetings
the last consortium meeting was held in Copenhagen, March 2011.
IRIS SURVEY
IRIS collected data by means of an electronic questionnaire to first-year STEM students in five European countries during the period March-June 2010 and in February - March 2011. We receieved a total of around 7200 responses.
IRIS workshop
25 participants from 15 countries participated at the workshop and presented their future involvement in IRIS project.