On Monday 14 March 2022, our centre member Dr Wonyong Park had the privilege of discussing his work on disasters & science education with Her Excellency Dame Susan Dogan, the Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In 2021, the La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent erupted the first time since 1979, causing 16,000 residents…
MSHE has two further science projects that will start soon. Prof. Marcus Grace and Dr. Andri Christodoulou – congratulations for another internal bidding success, with colleagues from the Biological Sciences and School of Geography and Environmental Science, under the ‘Interdisciplinary Research Pump Priming Fund’ Call. The title is “Consolidating the Wild Citizen Project”, which builds on the…
The transition from A-level mathematics and further maths courses to undergraduate (UG) mathematics courses can be challenging at times. This project aims to contribute to an improved transition through creating and curating high quality tutoring materials for the transition from Maths and Further Maths at A-level to undergraduate mathematics, and piloting these materials in a…
Dr Christian Bokhove has published a new article “Country and school family composition’s effects on mathematics achievement” with Professor Gillian Hampden-Thompson from from the University of Sussex: Family structures are associated with achievement outcomes, but the percentage of children residing in different family structures has changed over time. In this paper, we revisit data from…
In a new article “‘I already know about it, I’ve been watching the Daily News and updates’: Teenagers’ questions about the scientific and social aspects of COVID-19” Dr Jenny Byrne, Mrs Alison Marston and Professor Marcus Grace explored what questions teenagers want answered about Covid-19. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been…
Members from our research centre have been succesful securing funding by the University’s Public & Community Engagement (PCE) Development Fund through the Public Engagement with Research Unit in order to develop a new approach for engaging young children with nature and the environment. The project, Wild Citizens! – enabling children to become active environmental citizens,…
Recently, our colleague Dr Neta Shaby presented to the Education School on her work on family science learning and engagement. Among other things, Neta highlighted work with Dr. Dana Vedder-Weiss (Ben Gurion University), from her recent ESERA 2021 presentation: Accumulating evidence suggests that much of what people come to know about the world, including the…
Maths colleagues, including MSHE member Ros Hyde presented their work at the last BSRLM day conference. Hyde, Rosalyn; Archer, Rosa; Bamber, Sally [PRESENTATION] Understandings and perceptions of mastery approaches to mathematics: The case of beginning secondary teachers This study reports on the perceptions and understanding of beginning teachers regarding mastery approaches to secondary mathematics teaching…
Dr Andri Christodoulou and Prof Marcus Grace have a new open access article published in International Journal of Science Education. The article focuses on the use of cartography of controversy as an approach to supporting and enabling secondary school students to engage in socioscientific reasoning, and is a collaboration with colleagues from UCL Institute…
Ros Hyde and Lucy Hoyes‘ PGCE mathematics trainees recently joined a Roundtable event ‘How to enhance student teachers evidence-based decision competencies’, co-chaired by Christian Bokhove as part of the Erasmus+ RiTE project. Delegates were presented with a series of thought-provoking statements and had the opportunity to discuss how these related to using evidence with trainees…