I am available for offers of jobs

I am looking for new work in lecturing/research or IT/software development. Please see my Curriculum Vitae (academic CV, commercial CV).

Current Activities

Partner with brief for education in the DesignScience agency. DS is an editorial design and education agency aimed at bringing science and design closer together. Among other projects, I am a co-editor, author and programmer/designer for the Litmus Paper newspaper published at the Cheltenham Festivals. We published five issues for the Cheltenham Science Festival, June 2012, and a single issue for the  Cheltenham Literature Festival, October 2012. Code developed in Processing for Litmus Paper can be accessed via an OpenProcessing collection. We are currently working on some new Processing programs to accompany a set of essays on design, science, communication, and learning.

Visiting Fellow at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education.

London Knowledge Lab Maths-Art seminar series.

Art of Anamorphosis, an ongoing maths-art education project.

Samples of my programming activities are at Github and OpenProcessing.

I do private mathematics tuition, working mostly with the good folk at Adrian Beckett Maths Tutors. I specialise in secondary maths (KS3 and GCSE) and helping teachers and trainees to prepare for the QTS Numeracy Test.  I am also available for proof reading and editing of academic writing (theses, dissertations, papers) and other technical writing.

Past and Notable Activities

Cornerstone Mathematics Project, London Knowledge Lab, October 2011 - September 2012.

Improving outcomes through effective knowledge transfer in teaching school alliances: a research and development network project' (contract for the National College for School Leadership), Department of Education, University of Sussex, September 2011 - July 2012.

Raising Expectations and Achievement Levels for All Mathematics Students (REALMS) at the Department of Education, University of Sussex. September 2010 - August 2011.

Invited presentation on Games of Perspective at the 'Maths and Art' day organised by The Prince's Teaching Institute - London, 22 June 2011

Co-author of book published by Routledge in April 2010: Improving Mathematics at Work: The need for Techno-mathematical Literacies by Celia Hoyles, Richard Noss, Phillip Kent and Arthur Bakker [quick link: http://bit.ly/TechnomathsBook]

TURS project: Promoting Teachers’ Understanding of Risk in Socio-Scientific Issues, funded by the Wellcome Trust. (September 2008 - June 2010)

SPOT ON project: Exploring the new potential for embodied and kinaesthetic learning, using programmable objects and robotics in mathematics education. Joint research in 2008 with Brock Craft, funded by Becta.

Techno-mathematical Literacies in the Workplace (major project 2003 - 2007)

Geometry, Art, Zome and the 4th Dimension: A maths-art experimental project with access students from Lambeth College (January-March 2008).

Vygotsky, ZPD (intended as the first, so far the only, in a series of psychological fictions)

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