Heba EL-Deghaidy is currently chair of the Department of International and Comparative Education at the Graduate School of Education. EL-Deghaidy is an associate professor of science education and leads the STEAM education initiative as an international approach to an interdisciplinary learning model. Her doctoral degree in science education comes from the University of Birmingham, UK. She was the PI of the bilingual STEAM education project funded by British Gas. EL-Deghaidy is the Co-PI for an Erasmus funded project called School and University Partnership for Peer Communities of Learners (SUP4PCL).