EPISTEM PODCAST

• EPISTEM PODCAST EPISODE 23

  In this episode of the EPI·STEM podcast, Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome Associate Professor Audrey O’Grady as their special guest. Associate Professor O’Grady is a  Lecturer in Biological Sciences with a research specialism in entomology [study of insects] in the Faculty of Science & Engineering at the University of Limerick. Audrey is an EPI·STEM affiliate where she is a member of our PhD supervision team for our next generation of Science and STEMeducators.Here Associate Professor Audrey O’Grady shares her passionfor teaching science in higher education and her research and public engagement with local schools in relation to the importance of future sustainability, knowledge and care of the natural environment. Audrey has published a number ofresearch papers in relation to innovative pedagogical practices in science education. Audrey speaks to the importance of inspiring your people in science, the need for practical hands on and minds on work in learning science and how scientists can work to make a difference.  Associate Professor O’Grady has an extensive track record inoutreach and public engagement with local schools, science teachers and pupils in relation to science and pedagogies of science. She is involved in a recent Irish Research Council research partnership project on trees, called ROOTS [ReachingOut to Our Trees] with local primary schools and the University of Limerick. The aim of the project is to support primary teachers and their pupils to become observant of trees, to learn to identify five trees in their locality and to learn something of the science behind trees and their co-existence with other species. Connecting to the life of trees in this way not only teaches the young children the science behind tree identification but it also provides a green space for STEM education, for wellbeing and for community engagement andsustainability. Audrey shares about the work underway to develop the arboretum in the University of Limerick.The musical selection is from Ben King, a songwriter and guitarist from Nenagh in Co. Tipperary. Ben is a student, in the BA in World Music in The Irish World Academy of Musicand Dance in UL. Here Ben performs his own Reggae composition called Warm.

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• EPI•STEM PODCAST EPISODE 23

  In this episode of the EPI·STEM podcast, Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome Associate Professor Audrey O’Grady as their special guest. Associate Professor O’Grady is a Lecturer in the Life Sciences with a research specialism in etymology [study of insects] in the Faculty of Science & Engineering at the University of Limerick. Audrey is an EPI·STEM affiliate where she is a member of our PhD supervision team for our next generation of Science and STEM educators.Here, Associate Professor Audrey O’Grady shares her passionfor teaching science in higher education and her research and public engagement with local schools in relation to the importance of future sustainability, knowledge and care of the natural environment. Audrey has published a number ofresearch papers in relation to innovative pedagogical practices in science education. Audrey speaks to the importance of inspiring your people in science, the need for practical hands on and minds on work in learning science and how scientists can work to make a difference.  Associate Professor O’Grady has an extensive track record inoutreach and public engagement with local schools, science teachers and pupils in relation to science and pedagogies of science. She is involved in a recent Irish Research Council research partnership project on trees, called ROOTS [ReachingOut to Our Trees] with local primary schools and the University of Limerick. The aim of the project is to support primary teachers and their pupils to become observant of trees, to learn to identify five trees in their locality and to learn something of the science behind trees and their co-existence with other species. Connecting to the life of trees in this way not only teaches the young children the science behind tree identification but it also provides a green space for STEM education, for wellbeing and for community engagement andsustainability. Audrey shares about the work underway to develop the arboretum in the University of Limerick.The musical selection is from Ben King, a songwriter and guitarist from Nenagh in Co. Tipperary. Ben is a student, in the BA in World Music in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in UL. Here Ben performs his own Reggae composition called Warm.

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• EPI•STEM PODCAST EPISODE 22

  In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 22, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD reflect on the newacademic year ahead and the emphasis in the podcast to date of a rich variety of voices connected to STEM and STEAM Education, including researchers, teachers and partners. Here, Geraldine and Michelle discuss the research study Geraldine completed for the European Commission, a scoping study on education and skills that was published in recent weeks (https://employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/education-and-skills-social-transformations-and-resilience_en). The study is a philosophical critique of education and skills with an emphasison a futures orientation for a fair and sustainable green and digital transition in Europe. The study considers the key question under three headings. First, the study interprets the current state of play of education and skills in a fast-globalising world and in Europe.  Second, the study reveals supranational policy documents from UNESCO, OECD and others that are seeking a paradigm shift in the framing of education and skills, for a new social imaginary that repairs past injustices and provides a new emphasis on societal and environmental aspects. They discuss the findings in relation to teachers’ knowledge base and futuristic apprenticeships. We want thank our Research Assistants who worked in EPI•STEM on a summer internship producing research-led CPDresources, in engineering and STEM subjects, resources that are free to all teachers who register on our EPI•STEM ACADEMY OF STEM TEACHERS (https://epistem.ie/hea-resources/).The musical selection today is The Boyne Water, an arrangement by Martin Hayes and The Common GroundEnsemble played on fiddle by Eilidh Pope, an instrumentalist/composer who completed her BA in World Music in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

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• EPI•STEM PODCAST EPISODE 21

  In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 21, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD reflect on the variety of voices in the podcasts to date. They then continue where they left off in Episode 7 in relation to selecting and justifying a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to doctoral studies in STEM and STEAM Education.Michelle Starr PhD shares her research specialism in the criticalsociology of the French intellectual Pierre Bourdieu and shows how thinking with the big ideas and concepts of Bourdieu offers a powerful explanatory framework for education research studies framed as cultural problems. Michellespeaks to the interplay between the individual and structure and the relations between what Bourdieu called ‘habitus’, ‘field’ and cultural, social and economic ‘capital’.Geraldine Simmie PhD shares her research specialism in Critical Policy Studies, her understanding of the complexity of this social scientific problem, not only interrogating the gap between policy and practice but justifying the need to offer an affirmative critique of the framing of education policies.Geraldine shares her approach to doing this policy research, drawing from philosophical, critical and feminist theorists and educational thinkers.  We restart the podcast again in the autumn. In the meantime, thank you to all our listeners, the team and Affiliates in EPI•STEM, School of Education colleagues and students from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Thanksto Professor Sara Tolbert at the University of Melbourne at Monash, Australia, local schools, teachers and pupils, OIDE chemistry support team, Limerick Education Support Centre, Hunt Museum and local enterprises {Analog, Boston Scientific, Elly Lilly, ESB, SEROSEP}. A word of thanks for the endorsement of our eco-village project from the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, the Cloughjordan Eco-Village project and RTEs David Bannon. Finally, a special thank you to the Digital Hub in UL especially our producer Greg Rogala. The musical selection is Gan Anam Jig, a lively traditional tune played on keyboard by Ciara Geaney from Dingle, an accomplished piano player and a student in the BA in Irish Music in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UL.

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• EPI•STEM PODCAST EPISODE 20

  In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 20, co- hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome Associate Professor Diarmaid Lane as the special guest. Diarmaid is a Lecturer in Technology Education in the School of Education and an EPI•STEM Affiliate at UL.Associate Professor Diarmaid Lane shares his personal story of his route into teacher education and research in Technology and STEM teacher education in the University of Limerick. He shows how his continuing reflexive learning ismaking a difference to the pedagogical approaches he espouses with his students and colleagues. Associate Professor Diarmad Lane shares his recent research andhis passion for researching new pedagogical approaches to teaching design thinking and spatial literacy to student teachers in Initial Teacher Education in non-linear ways and as an assemblage of representations.Associate Professor Diarmad Lane is currently writing research with Professor Geraldine Simmie exploringthis issue of reflexivity and how it might hold up a crucial mirror to the ethical and caring endeavour of emancipatory STEM teaching in higher education. Having won numerous prestigious awards for excellence in teaching at theUniversity of Limerick, regionally and nationally, it is clear here that Diarmaid continues to work with colleagues to constructively question and constantly critique his teaching, research and learning. The musical selection today is from Liam Broderick. Liam is a singer and guitarist from Abbeyfeale in Co. Limerick. Liam is a final year student in the BA in Irish Music in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in UL. Liam performs a beautiful rendition of the traditional song Siúil a Rún, which means ‘Walk my love’ or ‘Come with me my darling’ with origins in the late 17th century.

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