STEM Faculty

Jennifer Bellamy

Senior Lecturer, Staff Tutor

Professional biography

Current roles and appointments

Staff Tutor / Senior Lecturer School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Module team chair of SDT306 Environment: responding to change, including role as accessibility co-ordinator

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion lead (Accessibility) for the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences 2023-2025

Associate Lecturer (AL) SDT306 Environment: responding to change since the first presentation in October 2018

Associate Lecturer S319 Geology and sustainability since 2025

Associate Lecturer S226 Environmental science since 2026.

Previous appointments

Curriculum Manager (2001-2020)

Qualifications Manager, Earth and Environmental Sciences (2015-2018)

Qualifications

- MSc Environmental change, Brunel University (1996)

- BSc (Hons) Geology, University of Southampton (1992)

- Post Graduate Diploma in Science communication, Birkbeck College, University of London, (2000)

Professional accreditation

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018)

Scholarship Research interests:

Closing the awarding gap: listening to our Black students

Highly Commended at the eSTEeM Scholarship Projects of the Year Awards 2024

Winner of the Best Poster Competition at the eSTEeM Annual Conference 2023

Project background

Final Report

Black student experience on an introductory STEM module

Sharing tutorial slides before online events: an evaluation of current practice and perceived benefits and barriers

Project Background

Coming soon – Final Report

Postcode Inequity: Closing the Awarding Gap for Stage 1 STEM Students residing in our most deprived UK post-codes

Winner of the best scholarship project award eSTEeM conference 2026

Final report

Latest publications

Displaying 5 of 5 publications

Bellamy, J. N. and Araya, Y., 2025, ‘Vignette 4’, 8: City parks as venues for accessible and inclusive Open University environment field days. In: France, Derek; Batty, Lesley and Swanton, Dan eds. Teaching Fieldwork in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 116–118., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106071/.
Araya, Y., Bellamy, J. N., Emmott, A., Rawes, W. and Zuza, E., 2025, ‘Vignette 9’, 3: Learning environmental science in the UK using mobile-device-captured current data by Malawian macadamia nut farmers. In: France, Derek; Batty, Lesley and Swanton, Dan eds. Teaching Fieldwork in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Elgar, pp. 268–270., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106069/.
Duckworth, J., Bellamy, J. and Marshall, H., 2025, ‘Does sharing slides in advance of online learning events impact student attendance? In: RIDE 2025: Empowering and Sustaining Change, 13-14 Mar 2025, Online and University of London, UK’, https://oro.open.ac.uk/107896/.
MacBrayne, L., Bellamy, J., Richards, A. and McPherson, E., 2025, ‘Black student experience on an introductory STEM module: Closing the awarding gap by listening to our Black students’, in The 13th eSTEeM Annual Conference Proceedings: Sharing Best Practice - Implementing What Works, 10-11 Apr 2024, The Open University, UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/102266/.
Duckworth, J., Bellamy, J. and Marshall, H., 2024, ‘Next slide please! Benefits and challenges of sharing slides before online tutorials’, in Horizons in STEM 2024, 26-27 Jun 2024, Bristol., https://oro.open.ac.uk/102016/.

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