PHILLIP KENT

MATHEMATICS   EDUCATION   TECHNOLOGY   RESEARCH

Current activities

• Until 4 June 2010 I was a senior Research Officer (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.

• Images of Mathematics in Advertising: I am the researcher for a short project directed by Dr Jeff Evans, Middlesex University
  

• 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]

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

• London Knowledge Lab Maths-Art seminar series

• Art of Anamorphosis

Past notable activities

• 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.
  

• 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

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