STEM Education Networks and Professional Bodies
STEM Education Networks and Professional Bodies
Below are a list of STEM education related networks and professional bodies that have been shared with us by REISE members. If you have any suggestions for additional networks or professional bodies to add to the list, please get in touch at eise@durham.ac.uk.
A list of university education research networks can be found on this page.
The list is presented in alphabetical order.
Accessible maths
The working group is dedicated to enhancing inclusivity within higher education through developing and raising the awareness of accessible mathematics. The group is open for all to join, we focus on identifying platforms, workflows and real-world practice to build an inclusive environment where the power of numbers is within reach for everyone. As a group, we focus on the application of mathematics in different disciplines ranging from, chemistry, economics, engineering, earth sciences and maths. We know that maths is embedded in all subjects at some-level and we aim to remove the barriers faced by students and staff interacting with inaccessible content.
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
The American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.
Association for Science Education
ASE supports teachers, technicians, teacher educators and researchers promoting excellence in teaching and learning of science in schools and colleges.
Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF)
The Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF) is an active community working to further the impact of the National Teaching Fellowship scheme. NTFs will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with other fellows through ANTF events and associated work to further their impact, both individually and collectively.
Association of Science and Technology Centers Research and Evaluation Community of Practice
ASTC is committed to a Communities of Practice approach to growing the field of informal science education, with the goal of supporting sustained and impactful professional development that has field-wide impact. Participation in CoPs is open to all ASTC members and other Informal Science Education (ISE) partners.
https://www.astc.org/membership/communities-of-practice/
British Educational Research Association (BERA)
The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone engaged in and with educational research both nationally and internationally.
Burwalls
Burwalls is a network for Teachers of Statistics in the Health and Life Sciences. Aimed at educators within Higher Education, the NHS, and similar institutions, the meeting provides valuable resources and insights to enhance teaching in these fields.
https://sites.google.com/view/burwalls/home
Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Learning
informalscience.org is NSF-funded resource center hosted by the REVISE Center. We share NSF updates pertaining to informal STEM education (ISE) as well as field-wide opportunities and resources focused on advancing ISE.
Chemistry Teaching in Practice (CTiP)
CTiP provides a forum for Chemistry Higher Education Practitioners to meet, share best practice and discuss common challenges. We hold an annual in-person meeting, and online seminars, with contributions from those teaching across the sector. To find out more, or to join the network, contact ctip@chem.ox.ac.uk
Variety in Chemistry Education/Physics Higher Education Conference (ViCEPHEC)
Variety in Chemistry Education/Physics Higher Education Conference is the UK’s leading annual conference for education in the Physical Sciences. Affiliated with both the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry, it is a space for educators to come together as a community and discuss current challenges and share exciting practice.
https://vicephec2025.weebly.com/
Methods in Chemistry Education Research (MICER)
Methods in Chemistry Education Research (MICER) is an annual meeting focussing on the how to of education research.
https://micerportal.wordpress.com/
Engineers without Borders UK
Engineers must play a fundamental role in designing solutions that will ensure humanity and the planet thrive. To achieve this, we are inspiring and upskilling individuals and organisations to put global responsibility at the heart of engineering.
Enhancing Fieldwork Learning
The objectives of the EFL team are to identify, evaluate and disseminate good practice in fieldwork environments. The team offers an annual programme of events, a support network of friendly contacts when trying to work out which kit to buy, how to convince budget holders and how to ensure learners are able to make the best use of the opportunities available.
https://enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/
European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
SEFI is the largest network focused on engineering education in Europe.
Evaluation and Innovation in Science Education (EISE) Research Group
We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers, specialising in a broad range of areas within science education research. EISE is open to anyone with an interest in Science Education Research across all education phases and life-long learning.
https://eise.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Foundation Year Network
The Foundation Year Network (FYN) is the professional network for foundation year educators, academics, and practitioners in the higher education sector. We aim to promote and share good practices, provide opportunities for continuing professional development, and support scholarly activities across the sector.
Geological Society of London
We are the UK’s professional body and learned society for geoscience. We support and inform scientists and the general public, primarily by helping to improve knowledge and understanding of geoscience and promoting professional excellence and ethical standards.
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/about-us
Horizons in STEM Higher Education Network
The network has been established to bring together STEM Higher Education enthusiasts and practitioners with a vision of developing a STEM Higher Education experience that is informed and improved by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
https://ukstemnetwork.wordpress.com
IEEE Education Society
IEEE Education Society https://ieee-edusociety.org/ (Electrical & Electronic Engineering focussed)
Institute of Mathematics and its applications: Higher Education Teaching and Learning Workshop Series
A workshop series focused on teaching and learning of Mathematical Sciences in Higher Education.
https://ima.org.uk/25710/higher-education-teaching-and-learning-workshop-series-2024-25/
Institute of Physics
We are the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland, with an active role in promoting co-operation in physics around the world.
Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)
IED is the premier membership body representing engineering and product designers. We aim to support and inspire our members to achieve their career goals and professional aspirations.
International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP)
GIREP is an international membership organisation (founded in 1966), open to individuals with a concern to improve the teaching of physics – teachers and their supporters (researchers, coaches, curriculum, developers)
IoP Physics Higher Education Group (IoP HEG)
We provide physics education members with meetings across the UK and Ireland and regularly organise joint physics events with other IOP groups. We also support members with links to professional networks, physics resources and blogs. What interests us is: conceptual understanding in physics; subject-based physics in higher education research; degree accreditation; influencing policy; sharing funding information; employability.
https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/higher-education-group
Mathsci-comm network
Mathsci-comm aims to connect those working in, and with a stake in, communicating complex mathematics and data science to a variety of non-expert audiences. This includes researchers, media and communications professionals, those working in policy in government and non-government organisations. Our aim is to share best practice, exploit synergies, and to help embed communication as an integral part of the mathematics and data science communities.
https://mathsci-comm.maths.org
National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)
We help universities to better support, embed and recognise meaningful public engagement. We are working to build an inclusive higher education sector where communities can contribute to, and benefit from, knowledge, teaching and research.
https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk
NCCPE-PEN
This list is for anyone working and/or interested in public engagement and community engagement in higher education. A platform to facilitate sharing information, ideas and discussion.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NCCPE-PEN
Northern Universities Mathematics Pedagogy Network (NUMPeN)
A network of education-focused University mathematicians, in the North of the UK. The network aims to enable attendees to keep up-to-date with examples of best practice from leading HE institutions in order to be able to later share this within their own departments; share examples of local practice with other members, and to identify areas for improvement within each department; develop formal and informal mentoring and professional support relationships; develop their own teaching practice by learning about new educational technology and curriculum reform that is being introduced at various different Universities.
NUSTEM
Working with children, families and teachers from pre-school to post-16 supporting learning and choices in STEM. In school, after school, at home and in public.
Physics Education Research (PER)
This website serves as a central hub for all PER activities in the Higher Education sector in the UK and Republic of Ireland. We distribute a newsletter via an email twice a month.
PSCI-COM mailing list
A list to provide a forum for discussion of any matter relating to public communication of science and public engagement with science.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=PSCI-COM
Public Engagement Professionals (PEP) network
The PEP Network supports engagement professionals across the UK working in higher education and research to access CPD, peer support and the latest thinking on engagement.
https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/public-engagement-professionals-pep-network
Researchers of Statistics Education Network (RoSE) network
The RoSE Network proactively creates an open and inclusive space for multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners of statistics education globally to connect, learn, and collaborate, toward advancing statistics education research and evidence-based practice.
https://www.rose-network.org/events/rose-2025
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.
Royal Geographical Society
We promote geography and geographical learning worldwide. We support geographical research, education, and fieldwork and expeditions, as well as by advocating on behalf of the discipline, supporting geographers in professional practice, and promoting geography to public audiences.
Royal Society of Biology
We are a membership organisation representing a diverse community of school, college and university students, technicians, apprentices, researchers, academics, journalists, industry leaders, innovators, teachers, policy experts, naturalists, and entrepreneurs.
Royal Society of Chemistry
We help chemistry to change the world. Supporting the chemical science community through publishing research, membership, events, networks, education.
RSC Chemistry Education Research Group (RSC CERG)
The Chemistry Education Research Group (CERG) promotes research at all levels of education and disseminating research findings to members of the Group. Members of CERG can help one another by sharing research expertise and locate others with similar interests.
RSC Higher Education Group (RSC HEG)
The Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Group (RSC HEG) represents those with an interest in chemistry in higher education. Our community provides a supportive network promoting collaboration, innovation, and dissemination of effective learning and teaching practice throughout the chemical sciences.
RSC Secondary and Further Education Group (RSC SaFE)
A community to promote and develop the teaching and learning of chemistry, both academic and work-based, to 11-19+ year olds in secondary schools and 6th form/FE Colleges. Also to interface with teachers and academics for the primary to secondary transition, and secondary to HE transition.
https://rscsafegroup.wordpress.com/
RSS Teaching Statistics
The Teaching Statistics Section provides a platform to collate and disseminate ideas and best practice in the teaching of statistics. The section aims is to build a community of practice in the teaching and learning of statistics, its scholarship, and its research. The section target statistics educators, which includes those working in post-18 education, including higher education and professional training.
https://rss.org.uk/membership/rss-groups-and-committees/sections/teaching-statistics
ScotGEESE
ScotGEESE Network is a community for GEES (geography, earth, and environmental sciences) educators and scholars across the educational landscape in Scotland.
https://scotgeese.wordpress.com
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
SUPA Physics Education Research (PER) groups conduct research into teaching and learning at the university level, aiming to develop and evaluate instructional strategies to improve student learning. This contributes to the development of effective teaching methodologies and enhanced educational outcomes in the physical sciences.
https://www.supa.ac.uk/physics-education-research
Sigma
Sigma is a network for excellence in mathematics and statistics support it is open to anyone engaged in mathematics or statistics support in Higher Education.
https://www.sigma-network.ac.uk
Society for Natural Sciences
The Society for Natural Sciences (SNS) is a professional body for scientists, educators and students working across the discipline boundaries of science.
SoTL and STEM mailing list
This mailing list is intended for anyone interested in scholarship, teaching and learning with a focus on science, technology, engineering, mathematics or associated subjects.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A0=SOTL-AND-STEM
South East Physics Network (SEPNet)
A network of universities in the South East of England, working together to broaden the horizons of physics and physicists.
Talking Maths in Public
Talking Maths in Public is a network for maths communicators in the UK. We aim to support people who communicate maths in a range of formats and to a variety of audiences – including through live presenting (in-person and online), giving research seminars and talks, mathematical writing (everything from books to social media posts), lobbying policymakers, producing online media and running interactive events, as well as many other forms of communication.
https://talkingmathsinpublic.uk
Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online
Online seminar series on the challenges that are specific to teaching and learning in the mathematical sciences, whether pedagogical or technological.
Teaching Python in Chemistry Network
The aim of Python in Chemistry is to promote and improve coding education in the chemical sciences.
UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network (EERN)
A Professional Community of Engineering Educators and Engineering Education Researchers. The Network promotes high quality pedagogic research to underpin innovative and sustainable developments in engineering education.
https://epc.ac.uk/network/communities/eern/
UK Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE)
The UK ACM SIGCSE aims to provide a national forum for the examination and exchange of research and practice related to the learning and teaching of computing.
Visitor Studies Group
The Visitor Studies Group (VSG) brings together a diverse community of visitor studies professionals working in a range of sectors. Members work in a range of positions including audience research, evaluation, audience development, visitor studies, learning, education, community engagement and others.