Senior Lecturer
<p>My main research theme is participation in pre-university mathematics. From a post-structural perspective, I am interested in the discourses of ability, pleasure, gender and exceptionalism that are produced by the current English system in which students choose whether to study mathematics after age 16, and in how these discourses may change as government policy moves towards compulsory mathematics across different pathways. From a practical perspective, I am interested in how teachers learn to teach the connected topics of A-level mathematics, and how schools and universities can promote girls' and women's participation in mathematics. </p><p>I was principal investigator of a research project <em>Supporting Advanced Mathematics</em>, funded as part of the Further Mathematics Support Programme 2014-17, that used research to identify and develop strategies for increasing participation and capacity in A-level mathematics. Sub-projects included: identifying strategies used by schools with high girls' participation in mathematics; studying the effects on teachers and departments of engaging with the FMSP to provide Further mathematics, studying the rationale, induction and professional learning effects of teaching A-level in early career. </p>
<p>I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and lead the Mathematics Education team.</p><p>I was educated at Cambridge, IOE and London Metropolitan Universities, where I completed a mathematics degree, then a PGCE, MA, and eventually PhD in Mathematics Education. After my early years teaching mathematics in secondary comprehensive schools in Hertfordshire and Suffolk, I became a teacher educator and researcher. I have worked on the mathematics pedagogy aspects of teacher education at Homerton College and the Education Faculty, Cambridge and then IOE in London, where I also led the Masters in Mathematics Education. I joined the Open University in July 2017 with responsiblity for research and curriculum development. </p>
Dr Cathy Smith
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<p>I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and lead the Mathematics Education team.</p><p>I was educated at Cambridge, IOE and London Metropolitan Universities, where I completed a mathematics degree, then a PGCE, MA, and eventually PhD in Mathematics Education. After my early years teaching mathematics in secondary comprehensive schools in Hertfordshire and Suffolk, I became a teacher educator and researcher. I have worked on the mathematics pedagogy aspects of teacher education at Homerton College and the Education Faculty, Cambridge and then IOE in London, where I also led the Masters in Mathematics Education. I joined the Open University in July 2017 with responsiblity for research and curriculum development. </p>