Northern Ireland Science Festival 2022: Tackling BAME Disparities in STEM Education

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The BAME community is drastically unrepresented in the STEM industry within Northern Ireland. Higher education institutions have a responsibility to encourage more BAME students into STEM subjects and shift this industry wide disparity.

Representatives from The Open University, Queen’s University and Ulster University discussed the stories behind some of Northern Ireland’s STEM academics, who represent the BAME community and are committed to instigating change. They shared their work and opinion on why this exists and what can be done to encourage more students from BAME groups to take up STEM subjects.

Panel members: Clem Herman, Prof. of Gender Technology at The Open University; Moira Dean, Prof. in Consumer Psychology and Food Security at Queen’s University, James Uhomoibhi, Lecturer in Engineering and Head of the Mixed Augment and Virtual Reality Research Laboratory at Ulster University and Osas Omoigiade, Associate Lecturer at The Open University and CEO and founder of Deep. Meta.

This event took place as part of the 2022 Northern Ireland Science Festival.