Emily is Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Education conducting research into secondary mathematics education.
A secondary mathematics specialist with a particular focus on KS3, Emily has taught in a wide variety of schools on three continents at every age range from Reception to A-Level and beyond. She has worked in the charitable sector designing curricula, creating and publishing classroom resources, and supporting teachers’ professional development in schools across the UK. She is most passionate about initial teacher education and leads the mathematics PGCE at the University of Oxford.
Emily’s most recent research explores the relationships between mathematical reasoning, representations, and language, with a particular interest in how mathematical thinking becomes visible through communication and interaction. She is interested in how learners and teachers interpret and move between representations, and how these representations foreground mathematical structures and relationships, particularly in spatial reasoning and negative number arithmetic.
Her DPhil thesis considered the effect of teaching mathematical proof on students’ argumentation skills.
Supervises:
Gemma Catchpole, Doctoral Student
