When NUSTEM began six years ago, it was funded by HEFCE (now Office for Students) and at the end of our first year we produced a big report on what we had done that year. After that, each year we produced an interim report for the funders but those reports were a bit dry and not very interesting.
Now that NUSTEM is an outreach group in its own right, funding by a combination of sources both within and outside Northumbria University we thought the time was right to produce more comprehensive annual reports again. We also decided that from now on we’d like to share those reports more widely through our website.
We will also include project reports of some of the funded projects that we have run.
Impact Report 2014-2020
The NUSTEM Theory of Change allows us to evaluate the impact that our activities have had in a range of areas. This report outlines the impact and outcomes from the first six years of NUSTEM.
Annual Reports
2019/20
NUSTEM Year in Numbers 2019/20
2018/19
NUSTEM Year In Numbers 2018/19
For a historical view of where NUSTEM started from, here is the first interim report we provided to HEFCE (our funders). At this point, the project was called ‘Think Physics’.
Project Reports
For externally funded projects, we provide reports to the funders. However, some of our projects are also used as part of our research. Where that is the case we will write reports outlining our findings. Sometimes we will also write journal articles and research papers with our findings. The reports are given on this page, and the academic reports are on our research pages.
2016 – 2017 Engineering for Families, funded by the Platton Fund at the Community Foundation, allowed parents and carers to work alongside their children to learn about the importance and application of engineering.
Engineering for Families Report
2017 – 2018 Family Space Explorers, funded by the UKSpace Agency helped to increase the confidence of families to talk about space and science.
NUSTEM Family Space Explorers report
2019 – 2020 Geography: Past, present and future. This project was a collaboration between NUSTEM and researchers from Northumbria Universities cold and palaeo-environment (CAPE) research group.
Geography: Past, present and future
2019 – 2010 Careers in Initial Teacher Education, funded by the Careers and Enterprise Company and in collaboration with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (NELEP) was a feasibility study into the possibility of embedding careers-related learning into initial teacher education.
Report coming soon
Briefing Papers
Principles of STEM Engagement
This document outlines what should you think about before starting to plan STEM engagement activities.
Implementing the Tomorrow’s Engineers Code
This document provides an evidence-based, practical guide for improving the impact of STEM Engagement Activities. Written originally for organisations that have become signatories of the Tomorrow’s Engineers Code from EngineeringUK, we think that it’s relevant for ALL organisations involved in STEM engagement activities.
