Jenny Byrne and Marcus Grace have been involved in an NIHR funded research project that undertook a survey of health education in UK HEI providers and a systematic review of health education in ITE. The report is now published and is the second NIHR Public Health Research programme-funded project to be published in the new […]

Mentoring mathematics teachers – Supporting and Inspiring Pre-Service and Newly Qualified Teachers. Just published by Routledge is this new book edited by Rosalyn Hyde and Julie-Ann Edwards from the Mathematics and Science Research Centre in the Southampton Education School. Designed to support both teachers and university-based tutors in mentoring primary and secondary pre-service and beginning […]

Members of MaSE led presentations and discussions at the recent European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) conference in Nicosia. All were well received. Andri Christodoulou gave a talk about the LifeLab ‘Meet the Scientist’ project which engages teenagers with scientists; Caro Garrett and Willeke Rietdijk summarised the of findings of the national Action Research in […]

We are pleased to announce that Ruth Edwards has been awarded recognition as a Senior Fellow (UKSPF Descriptor 3) of the Higher Education Academy

ZDM-International Journal on Mathematics Education just published its latest issue last week on a special theme: Textbook research in mathematics education. The issue was co-edited by Prof. Lianghuo Fan and Mr. Keith Jones of MaSE and Prof. Jianpan Wang, and Prof. Binyan Xu of East China Normal University.  A number of internationally leading researchers from […]

At this afternoon’s AGM of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (IGPME: see http://www.igpme.org/) Keith Jones of our centre was elected as a member of the International Committee to serve for a period of four years (until 2018).

The International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development 2014 (ICMT2014) will be held at the University of Southampton Date: 29-31 July 2014 Venue: University of Southampton, UK Conference Themes: •             Textbook research •             Textbook analysis and comparison •             Textbook development •             Textbook use by teachers •             Textbook use by students •             Task design for […]