Lara Alcock

Lara Alcock
Alma materUniversity of Warwick (BSc, MSc, PhD)
AwardsNational Teaching Fellowship (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical thinking
Proof comprehension
Mathematical reading[1]
InstitutionsLoughborough University
Rutgers University
Essex University
ThesisCategories, definitions and mathematics : student reasoning about objects in analysis (2001)
Doctoral advisorAdrian Simpson
Websitelaraalcock.com

Lara Alcock is a British mathematics educator. She is a professor in mathematics education at Loughborough University, head of the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough, and the author of several books on mathematics.[1][2] Alcock won the Selden Prize for her research in mathematics education[3] and the inaugural John Blake University Teaching Medal in 2021.[4] Alcock is a National Teaching Fellow.[5]

Education

Alcock earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Warwick, and in 2001 completed a PhD in mathematics education at Warwick.[2][3] Her PhD research on Categories, definitions and mathematics: Student reasoning about objects in analysis, was supervised by Adrian Simpson.[6]

Career and research

After working as an assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, she returned to the UK as a teaching fellow at Essex University. She moved to Loughborough in 2007.[2][7][8][9][3]

Publications

Alcock's publications[1] include:

  • Ideas from Mathematics Education: An Introduction for Mathematicians (with Adrian Simpson, Higher Education Academy, 2009)
  • How to Study for a Mathematics Degree / How to Study as a Mathematics Major (UK/US; Oxford University Press, 2013); Wie man erfolgreich Mathematik studiert (translated into German by Bernhard Gerl, Springer Spektrum, 2017)[10][11][12][13]
  • How to Think about Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2014)[14]
  • Mathematics Rebooted: A Fresh Approach to Understanding (Oxford University Press, 2017)[7]

Awards and honours

Alcock is the 2012 winner of the Annie and John Selden Prize for research in undergraduate mathematics education, given by the Mathematical Association of America.[3] She was named a National Teaching Fellow by the Higher Education Academy in 2015.[5]

Alcock was the inaugural winner of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications John Blake University Teaching Medal in 2021. [4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Lara Alcock publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c Centre Staff: Dr Lara Alcock, Loughborough University Mathematics Education Centre, retrieved 2018-09-12
  3. ^ a b c d 2012 Selden Prize Winner, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2018-09-12
  4. ^ a b "Dr Lara Alcock wins the inaugural IMA John Blake University Teaching Medal". Institute of Mathematics & its Applications. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  5. ^ a b Grove, Jack (11 June 2015), "National Teaching Fellows of 2015 are named: Fifty-five people working in universities have been named as the latest winners of the sector's top honour for teaching and learning", Times Higher Education
  6. ^ Alcock, Lara (2001). Categories, definitions and mathematics : student reasoning about objects in analysis (PhD thesis). University of Warwick. OCLC 921054748. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.246820.
  7. ^ a b Reviews of Mathematics Rebooted: Bultheel, Adhemar (February 2018), Review, European Mathematical Society
  8. ^ Stenger, Allen (April 2018), "Review", MAA Reviews
  9. ^ Grove, Michael (January 2019), "Review" (PDF), Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society, 480: 39–40
  10. ^ Foster, Colin (July 2014), The Mathematical Gazette, 98 (542): 377–378, doi:10.1017/s0025557200001625{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  11. ^ Storr, Graham (2014), The Mathematical Gazette, 98 (543): 547, doi:10.1017/s0025557200008457, S2CID 184177892{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  12. ^ Selden, Annie (September 2013), "Review", MAA Reviews
  13. ^ Panse, Anja (2018), Mathematische Semesterberichte, 65 (1): 133–135, doi:10.1007/s00591-018-0219-6, S2CID 125487245{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  14. ^ Huddy, Stanley R. (January 2015), "Review of How to Think about Analysis", MAA Reviews