The Horizons in STEM higher education conference 2025 was held at Aston University, Birmingham, 25-26 June. Please scroll down for the programme and conference proceedings.
Information about our keynote speakers can be found here.
Information about our sponsors can be found here.
Prize Winners
Congratulations to our 2025 Prize Winners, voted for by our delegates!
Best Poster Day 1:
‘How does it feel to have an extension? Experiences of Stage 1 engineering students’ Emma Champion (The Open University) and Rosie Boltryk (The Open University) – prize accepted by Diane Ford from The Open University.
Best Oral Presentation Day 1:
‘Empowering student agency in assessment and feedback in Biological Sciences’ Rose Murray (University of Bristol), Rebecca Pike (University of Bristol) and Reinart Jensema (University of Bristol)
Best Poster Day 2:
‘Using Memes to Understand Student Feelings and Encourage Playful Learning’ Emily Harper (Aston University)
Best Oral Presentation Day 2:
‘Evaluating the Tier 1 Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training (OMMT) in learning disabilities and autism across health-related courses at Aston University’ Amreen Bashir (School of Biosciences, Aston University), Mary Drozd (Aston Medical School, Aston University) and Jayne Murphy (Aston Medical School, Aston University)
Programme overview
The 2025 conference programme is available here:
Conference Proceedings
We are proposing to publish papers based on presentations at the conference in the Society for Natural Science’s New Directions in the Teaching of Natural Sciences e-journal. Papers will be considered from any STEM discipline and all speakers are invited to contribute papers based on their presentations or posters after the conference. Papers for the journal are published online once accepted. Authors should add a note to the paper that it was presented at the conference if they wish this to appear in the published version. Papers can be submitted at any time after the conference, but to appear in the annual volume for 2025 (published in early 2026) the closing date for submissions of full conference papers is December 9th, 2025.
Code of conduct
We ask all attendees to agree to our code of conduct.
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