Lara Alcock

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Lara Alcock

Alma mater University of Warwick (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Awards National Teaching Fellowship (2015)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematical thinking
Proof comprehension
Mathematical reading [1]
Institutions Loughborough University
Rutgers University
Essex University
Thesis Categories, definitions and mathematics : student reasoning about objects in analysis  (2001)
Doctoral advisor Adrian Simpson
Website laraalcock.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]

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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:

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]

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