I am a former secondary school mathematics teacher who now works as a Professorial Research Associate at UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education.

I am the Research Engagement and Impact Lead for IOE-CCM and the Department's Connected Learning Lead.

I co-ordinate UCL's founding partnership within the European EdTech Network (www.eetn.eu) that brings together EdTech experts, innovators, higher-education professionals and students, in order to connect the best specialists with the most creative minds from all over the Europe and provide them with the most relevant EdTech content, to foster innovation in the field of higher education on the European market.

Between 2017-19 I was the Principal Research Lead for the ERDF-funded EDUCATE Project at the UCL Knowledge Lab. I led the research strategy for the project and co-ordinated the research training element of the programme that reached 252 industry founders of educational technology products and services, which had the main goal to break down barriers between educational research community (and its knowledge base) and industry.

In 2017, I completed (as Co Principal Investigator with Celia Hoyles) a three-year project funded by the Nuffield Foundation on "Digital pedagogies for mathematics teaching", which extends the earlier Cornerstone Maths project (2012-14) funded by Li Ka Shing Foundation. (www.ucl.ac.uk/cornerstone-maths).

My role prior to joining UCL Knowledge Lab was Programme Lead of a large Master's course in mathematics education, which involved online and off-site delivery in collaboration with five different Local Authority Education Departments. In addition, I led a number of government and industry-funded teacher and curriculum development projects involving the use of innovative mathematical technologies. 

I directed the UK evaluation of Texas Instruments’ TI-Nspire handheld technology and the European evaluation of their TI-Nspire TI-Navigator network classroom system. From 2009-2012 I was the project lead partner in the EU Comenius funded project ‘EdUmatics’, which involved 20 Partners from seven EU countries (www.edumatics.eu).

I have edited and authored 3 books, the most recent of which is The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Age (with Ornella Robutti and Nathalie Sinclair, published by Springer Nature in 2014). This continues to be the most successful book in its series (Mathematics Education in the Digital Era) with over 23,000 downloads as of November 2018. A second edition is in development.

I am a member and former Trustee of both The Mathematical Association and the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a Member of the London Mathematical Society. I have served on the Executive Committee for the British Society for the Learning of Mathematics and I am a former co-convenor of the Mathematics Education SIG for the British Educational Research Association.

Personal country knowledge

• South Africa - Mathematics Teacher Development, Digital Technologies in Mathematics Education
• Kenya - Mathematics Teacher Development, Digital Technologies in Mathematics Education
• USA - Digital Technologies in Mathematics Education