I am a third-year PhD student in Mathematics Education at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Professor Michael Grove.
My research interests lie within Mathematics Higher Education, particularly the transition to university Mathematics for first-year undergraduate students. Currently, I am exploring students' experiences during their degree, and looking at how their engagement with various learning and support opportunities influences their learning. In doing so, I aim to identify lessons we can learn from the provision of Mathematics Support which will inform future teaching practice to enhance the student learning experience.
Before studying at Birmingham, I received my BSc in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham. Whilst at Nottingham, I developed an interest in Mathematics Education after completing a research internship in the summer of my second year entitled “Developing STACK Questions” - a joint project between the University of Nottingham and The University of Edinburgh. You can read about STACK (System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer algebra Kernel) here. After this, I worked at the university as a Student Engagement Associate where we designed a new first year Mathematics curriculum. During the summer between finishing my final year at Nottingham and beginning my PhD in Birmingham I completed two internships. The first involved participating in, and providing feedback for, a newly proposed mathematical cognition module at Loughborough University. The second internship entitled “Students’ perceptions of Mathematical Proof” involved analysing interview data from undergraduate students about their attitude towards proofs, and the role they play in their degree.