Dr Karen Skilling is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. Karen is currently the Deputy Director of Doctoral Research, Lead of the PGCE mathematics education at the Department of Education, and co-ordinates the Doctoral Teaching Fellows for teacher education. In 2020, Karen established the STEM Discussion Group and also convenes the Subject Pedagogy Group seminars.
Karen’s research interests include: student engagement and motivation in mathematics; integrated STEM learning and project-based STEM activities; and vignette methods. Karen currently sits on the Executive Committee of BSRLM, and is a journal Editor for the Teaching Education Journal (TEJ) and Research in Mathematics Education (RME). Karen has also been co-Editor for several special issues, and a topic study co-lead at the Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME). Karen is a Visiting Fellow at King’s College London and been an HEA Fellow since 2016.
Awards include: Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) (APAI): funded PhD role attached to MYTEAM Project awarded by Australian Research Council (2008 –2012); Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Department of Education, University of Oxford (2013-14); and nominations for Most Outstanding Contribution to Student Experience at King’s College London (2015, 2016, 2017).
