I am a maths educator. I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Pennsylvania State University.
I am interested in many topics in maths education, particularly active learning methods in a university setting, the experiences of underrepresented groups in mathematics and developing effective strategies to promote equity, diversity and inclusion, and involving students in assessment to increase their engagement with feedback on their own work.Â
I greatly enjoy teaching problem solving to school students, especially those who haven't had an opportunity to work collaboratively on difficult maths before. As part of this, I direct the She Talks Science STEP Summer School at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. I am also running an online reading group on partition combinatorics for Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
I recently defended my PhD thesis on interactions between algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and representation theory at the University of Sheffield. Before that, I did my undergraduate degree and Part III mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Past videos
During the coronavirus pandemic I gave a couple of webinars for the UKMT giving some ways to think about symmetries and how to apply them to problem solving.
The two videos in this series look at symmetries and some ways to apply them to problem solving. Please note in the first video, some of the visual explanation is lost because my video feed is missing.
When I was a Part III student I worked on some videos for the STEP Support Programme, run by the Millenium Maths Project.