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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lara Alcock publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 3 Centre Staff: Dr Lara Alcock, Loughborough University Mathematics Education Centre, retrieved 2018-09-12
  3. 1 2 3 4 2012 Selden Prize Winner, Mathematical Association of America , retrieved 2018-09-12
  4. 1 2 "Dr Lara Alcock wins the inaugural IMA John Blake University Teaching Medal". Institute of Mathematics & its Applications. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  5. 1 2 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. 1 2 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
  15. ↑ "How to Think About Abstract Algebra". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 February 2025.


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