I completed my undergraduate and graduate studies at Nottingham (BSc Psychology), Reading (MSc Psychology Research Methods) and Oxford (DPhil Experimental Psychology). Following this I worked as a postdoc in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and was then a Research Fellow in the Learning Sciences Research Institute at Nottingham for 5 years. I joined 天堂视频 in 2011. I am Co-Director of the Centre for Mathematical Cognition and lead the ESRC Centre for Early Mathematics Learning.
Research areas
I am interested in understanding how we acquire and process mathematical ideas and what this means for mathematics education. My research investigates:
- Cognitive and environmental influences on the development of early numeracy and later mathematics skills.
- The role of domain-general skills such as executive functions, language and spatial skills in mathematics performance and learning.
- Mathematical learning difficulties.
- Mathematical difficulties in preterm-born children.
- My recent research projects have been funded by Action Medical Research, British Academy, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, and Royal Society.
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