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, directed by Professor Dave Pratt and Dr Ralph Levinson, funded by the Wellcome Trust. (18-month project until February 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. Currently writing the final project report.

• London Knowledge Lab Maths-Art seminar series

• Art of Anamorphosis

Future activities:

• Completion of book manuscript, Improving Techno-mathematical Literacies in the Workplace, to be published by Routledge-Falmer.

• Development of new project proposals based on the results of SPOT ON.

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