STEM Faculty

Nirwan Sharma

Research Fellow

This person is listed in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) people directory at The Open University.

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Beyond the buzzword: AI, inclusion and the future of adult…

30 Sep 2025

Tuesday September 23rd, as part of MK Tech Week 2025 and alongside Esther Spring, KMi’s Prof. John Domingue chaired a…

KMi’s AI Module Writing Assistant shortlisted for best paper award

05 Aug 2024

KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Alexander Mikroyannidis has presented a paper at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT). This…

Fostering Synergies: C&C and KMi research & innovation event

16 Jul 2024

C&C (The School of Computing and Communication) and KMi arranged a research festival designed to celebrate the research and innovations…

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Latest publications

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Bowers, L. J., Sharma, N., Hancock, J., Lakeman Fraser, P., Newman, J., Cheng, K., Manches, A., Colucci-Gray, L. and Siddharthan, A., 2026, ‘Sensing Nature: A School-ground Haptic Map and Tactile Garden for Texture Exploration’, in Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’26), 22-25 Jun 2026, Brighton, UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110764/.
Colucci-Gyay, L., Hancock, J., Manches, A., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Dodd, M., Ansine, J., Bowers, L., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2025, ‘To touch is to know’: haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science’, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 15(3), pp. 360–376., https://oro.open.ac.uk/104267/.
Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Robinson, A., Newman, J., Van der Wal, R., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘Image Recognition as a ‘Dialogic AI Partner’ within Biodiversity Citizen Science - an empirical investigation’, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 9(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/99851/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Sharma, N., Ekuban, A. and Domingue, J., 2024, ‘Using Generative AI and ChatGPT for improving the production of distance learning materials’, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 01-04 Jul 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97397/.
Colucci-Gray, L., Hancock, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Manches, A., Bowers, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Mozier, S., Newman, J., Reuger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2024, ‘Seeing with hands and touching with eyes: recovering sensorial attention to nature in primary schools’, in First International Conference on Embodied Education, 15-17 May 2024, Danish School of Education (DPU), Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97621/.
Hancock, J., Colucci-Gray, L., Siddharthan, A., Manches, A., Sharma, N., Islam, R., Bowers, L., Reuger, S., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Mozier, S. and Barry, R., 2023, ‘“We felt the textures from nature and it gave us new ideas”: Investigating sustainability education through primary school children’s natural and digital haptic touch explorations’, in SERA Conference 2023, Wednesday 22 - Friday 24 Nov 2023, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, United Kingdom., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97619/.
Lakeman Fraser, P., Colluci-Gray, L., Robinson, A., Sforzi, A., Staples-Rolf, R., Newman, J., Gill, R., Sharma, N., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A., 2023, ‘X-Polli:Nation: Contributing towards sustainable development goals through school-based pollinator citizen science’, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/86427/.
Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., van der Wal, R. and Siddharthan, A., 2022, ‘Consensus building in on-line citizen science’, in 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2022), 08-22 Nov 2022, Online., https://oro.open.ac.uk/83971/.
Anderson, H. B., Robinson, A., Siddharthan, A., Sharma, N., Bostock, H., Salisbury, A., Roberts, S. and van der Wal, R., 2020, ‘Citizen science data reveals the need for keeping garden plant recommendations up-to-date to help pollinators’, Scientific Reports, 10(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/73795/.

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