Publications de Joelyn de Lima

How Can We Make Scientific Events More Inclusive? Insights From Q&a Sessions and Surveys From an International Conference

Despite growing awareness of the importance of researcher diversity, barriers to inclusion and equity persist in science and at academic conferences. As hosts of the 37th International Ethological Congress, "Behaviour 2023", we studied gender disparities t ...

WILEY2025

A framework to identify opportunities to address socioscientific issues in the elementary school curricula: A case study from England, Italy, and Portugal

Joelyn de Lima

Scientific literacy is crucial to address important and complex societal problems, both current and future. Teaching using a socioscientific issues (SSI) approach is a potential strategy to develop students' scientific literacy, although teachers have repo ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2025

Evolution in European and Israeli school curricula - a comparative analysis

Joelyn de Lima

The contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 sc ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2024

How teachers can use the 3T PLAY trident framework to design an activity that develops transversal skills

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

EPFL2024

Teaching assistants' contributions to creating inclusive and equitable learning spaces in engineering

Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Joelyn de Lima

Sustainable engineering education requires us to address discrimination and inequity of experience, thereby contributing to a renewal of the engineering profession that reflects a rich diversity of experiences and perspectives. Many students experience dis ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2024

Exploring Engineering Students' Perception of Sustainability and Ethics in Their Curriculum Across Disciplines

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Joelyn de Lima, Yousef Jalali

Sustainability and ethics are topics of significant, current importance in higher education. In engineering education, they take on even greater importance as engineers play a key role in addressing global issues. While multiple institutions have implement ...

2024

Distinctly Human - Student's Perception of Transversal Skills in Engineering Curriculum

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Joelyn de Lima

Through their participation in accreditation procedures, engineering educators are well versed in documenting transversal skills addressed by individual courses and across programs. But to what extent do students perceive support for the transversal skills ...

2024

Enacting Our Values - Steps Towards a More Sustainable and Inclusive SEFI Community

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Our mission of educating responsible engineers requires a diverse and inclusive community where sustainability is a shared commitment. This workshop engaged participants in considering what it means to be a sustainable community and how this interacts with ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Students learn more when they are actively engaged in the learning process. While hands-on activities, labs and projects are moments when students are active, the learning benefits can be amplified with coaching strategies. This activity will enable studen ...

EPFL2024

How to Support Students Giving Each Other Constructive Feedback, Especially When It Is Difficult to Hear

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Being able to deliver feedback to peers is a key management skill and something engineering students report finding difficult, due to the relational and emotional implications. This experiential activity provides students with emotional management strategi ...

EPFL2024

Evolutionary literacy as a catalyst for sustainable futures: connecting biological evolution education and education for sustainability

Joelyn de Lima

In the face of growing societal, public health and environmental challenges linked to the functioning of the biosphere, strong evolutionary literacy emerges as indispensable to plan and achieve sustainable futures. However, research on evolution education ...

2024

Transversal skills priorities and curricular support as experienced by engineering students on their path to becoming responsible engineers

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Joelyn de Lima

Transversal skills (TS) are fundamental to both work effectively autonomously and with others in society. They are key to educating responsible engineers able to assess and proactively respond to issues and opportunities. As evidenced by recent course syll ...

2024

How to Support Students to Develop Skills that Promote Sustainability

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Sustainability should be integrated into everything we do, including engineering and student projects. This experiential activity uses the selection of materials for a wind turbine to engage participants in a contextualised negotiation of multiple facets o ...

EPFL2024

CREATING EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES TO TEACH TRANSVERSAL SKILLS IN YOUR COURSE WITH A BACKWARD DESIGN TEMPLATE

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Yousef Jalali

Providing authentic experiential learning activities is an important part of educating responsible engineers. In addition to disciplinary knowledge and skills, it is important that our graduating engineers achieve fluency in transversal skills. The trident ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS THAT PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY - AN EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

This workshop addresses two major preoccupations in engineering education: the need to integrate sustainability and transversal skill development. In addition to knowledge about sustainability, engineering students require skills for effectively integratin ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Reluctance Despite Recognition: Student Perceptions of Benefits of Group Work

Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Simone Deparis, Joelyn de Lima

As engineering educators pivot towards implementing evidence-based pedagogical strategies, group work - or collaborative work - is being increasingly used in undergraduate classrooms. In mathematics, collaboration is a crucial disciplinary practice. Partic ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

The Road Not Taken: How First-Generation Students Differ in Their Postgraduate Educational Paths

Joelyn de Lima

First-generation students (FGS) are traditionally underrepresented in higher education, including engineering education. To ensure equity in access and success in engineering, and thereby ensure that we educate responsible engineers who come from a diversi ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Inclusive engineering classrooms: student teaching assistants' perspectives

Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Joelyn de Lima

Inclusive teaching is the intentional practice of recognising biases, working to mitigate their impact, and ensuring that students have equitable learning opportunities. In addition to improving students' sense of belonging and self efficacy, inclusive tea ...

TU Dublin2023

Students explain evolution by natural selection differently for humans versus nonhuman animals

Joelyn de Lima

Evolution is foundational to understanding biology, yet learners at all stages have incomplete and incorrect ideas that persist beyond graduation. Contextual features of prompts (e.g., taxon of organism, acquisition vs. loss of traits, etc.) have been show ...

Amer Soc Cell Biology2023