PHILLIP KENT

MATHEMATICS   EDUCATION   TECHNOLOGY   RESEARCH

I am a senior Research Officer (that is, full-time researcher) in the Department of Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science and the London Knowledge Lab at the Institute of Education, University of London. [See my LKL webpage]

Current activities:

• Researcher for the TURS project: Promoting Teachers’ Understanding of Risk in Socio-Scientific Issues, funded by the Wellcome Trust. (Until May 2010.)

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

• London Knowledge Lab Maths-Art seminar series

• Art of Anamorphosis

Recent activities:

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

• Geometry, Art, Zome and the 4th Dimension: A maths-art experimental project with access students from Lambeth College (January-March 2008), done in collaboration with artist-educator, Jane Elliott.

• Special Zome lecture and workshops at LKL, February 2008