[Maths-Education] Funded PhD studentships available

[Colin Foster]

The Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough University is advertising two PhD studentships for an October 2019 start. Both are collaborative studentships funded by the ESRC Midlands Graduate School and include funding for a research-methods masters for those who have not already studied such a course. Details and applications forms are available here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/collaborativeandjoint/

The MEC is a great place to study. Details of our existing students and research environment more generally can be found by following the links from this page:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/mec/research/

PROJECT 1 in collaboration with Times Tables Rock Stars
Optimising learning of multiplication and division facts in schoolchildren
Supervisors: Camilla Gilmore and Lucy Cragg (Nottingham)
Deadline: 28 February 2019

PROJECT 2 in collaboration with Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI)
Reasoning skills in post-16 mathematics students
Supervisors: Lara Alcock and Nina Attridge
Deadline: 29 March 2019

Thanks, Colin.

Dr Colin Foster
Reader in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Education Centre
Schofield Building
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU

www.foster77.co.uk<http://www.foster77.co.uk>
@colinfoster77

Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology: http://www.tandfonline.com/tmes

Recent publications
Inglis, M., & Foster, C. (2018). Five decades of mathematics education research. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 49(4), 462–500. http://www.foster77.co.uk/JRME2018-07-462.pdf
Foster, C. (2018). Developing mathematical fluency: Comparing exercises and rich tasks. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 97(2), 121–141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-017-9788-x
Hodgen, J., Foster, C., Marks, R., & Brown, M. (2018). Evidence for Review of Mathematics Teaching: Improving Mathematics in Key Stages Two and Three. London: Education Endowment Foundation. https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Support/Links/Campaigns/Maths/EEF_Maths_Evidence_Review.pdf