EPISTEM PODCAST

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 15, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD discuss the positioning of education at a crossroads once again in light of the fast changing global economic landscape brought about by the US President Donal Trump. The imposition of trade tariffs between nation states brings an abrupt end to the last twenty years or more of free trade and free movement of p...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 14, co-hosts GeraldineSimmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome their special guest Associate Professor Niamh O’Meara, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education and Deputy Director of EPI•STEM The National Centre for STEM Education in the School ofEducation, University of Limerick.  In this episode Niamh shares her passion formathematics from her early school days, a...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 13, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome their special guest Associate Professor Donal Canty, Deputy Head of the School of Education and Senior Lecturer in TechnologyEducation at the School of Education, University of Limerick. Donal shares the origins of his passion for educationand for technology education from his early life growing up in...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 12, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome their special guest Associate Professor Jason Power, a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Education in the School of Education in the University of Limerick. Jason shares his passion for engineering and teaching engineering to student teachers who will become the next generation of STEM teachers. Jason’s r...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 11, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome their special guest Norma O’Brien, the Director of the Limerick Education Support Centre (LESC). Norma explains the ongoingeducative and partnership work of the centre, for example, through ongoing liaison with school principals in primary and post-primary schools in Limerick city and county and Tipper...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 10, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome their special guest Tara E. Ryan, a PhD student in Physics who now works in the ACTUATE LAB in the Department of Chemical Sciences in the Bernal Institute in the University of Limerick under the supervision of Professor Sarah Guerin. Tara is a UL graduate of a science teacher education degree and worke...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 9, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD welcome their special guest Dr. Avril Mc Loughlin, a researcher and lecturer in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at UL. Avril shares her research interest in community music and music education and the important interplay between theory, practice and culture. We tease out some tensions and synergies b...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 8, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD read from a letter sent to EPI•STEM by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. The President congratulates everyone connected to the Transition Year STEAM Education project entitled ‘Design a Sustainable Eco-Village in Ireland in 2050’, especially the students in the seven schools in Limerick. Geraldine an...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 7, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD present an introduction to research studies in the Critical Sociology of Education, and in the Critical Sociology of STEM Education and STEAM Education. Research studies in the sociology of education seek to make meaning of the present in relation to human development, both from the individual and the societal...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 6, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD chat with Associate Professor Regina Kelly. Regina is a Lecturer in Science Education, a Course Director of Initial Teacher Education science programmes in the School of the Education and an Affiliate of EPI•STEM The National Centre for STEM Education. Regina shares her passion for all things physics, looking a...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 5, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD chat with Emma King from the Hunt Museum about the workshop the museum is providing for the STEAM Education partnership project with EPI•STEM and the Limerick Education Support Centre. Emma shares how cultural practices from the past can inspire TY students’ vision for sustainable living, including the museum’s...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 4, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD discuss aspects of the STEAM Education project. This Transition Year project is a partnership between EPI•STEM at UL, the Limerick Education Support Centre and the Hunt Museum in Limerick. Geraldine and Michelle speak to the holistic aims of Transition Year as a year to find oneself and to explore one’s talents...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 3, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD discuss the STEAM Education partnership project with Lauren O’Gorman, a Research Assistant in EPI•STEM and science teacher in the Crescent College Comprehensive S.J. in Limerick City. The project is a partnership between EPI•STEM, the Limerick Education Support Centre and the Hunt Museum. Lauren speaks to new i...

In the EPI•STEM PODCAST Episode 2, co-hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD and Michelle Starr PhD chat about the upcoming STEAM Education partnership project, entitled ‘Design a Sustainable Eco-Village in Ireland in 2050’. This school-university-museum project involves a novel collaboration between the Limerick Education Support Centre, the Hunt Museum in Limerick City and EPI•STEM The National Centre for S...

Co-Hosts Geraldine Simmie PhD, Professor of STEM Education and Director of EPI-STEM & Michelle Starr PhD, Research Liaison Officer, EPI*STEM National Centre for STEM Education  Guest Katelyn O’Neill, Final Year Student Teacher, School of Education Local Musician Avril Mc Loughlin, Researcher and Lecturer, World Academy of Music & Dance, UL.  Recording & Editing Grzegorz Rogala,  Digita...