Research projects

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2022-2027: Centre for Early Mathematics Learning (CEML)
- DME staff: Julia Bahnmueller, Ouhao Chen, Krzysztof Cipora, Colin Foster, Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis, Tim Jay, Hugo Lortie-Forgues, Korbinian Moeller, Kinga Morsanyi, Francesco Sella, Iro Xenidou-Dervou.
2022-2024: Improving conceptual understanding of university mathematics through comparing and contrasting students’ mathematical writing
- DME staff: Ian Jones
- Funder: Spencer Foundation
2022-2024: Does mathematics develop logical reasoning?
- DME staff: Lara Alcock
- Funder: Leverhulme Trust
2023-2024: The adaptive online tutoring program – Visiting Professor Research
- DME staff: Ouhao Chen
- Collaborators: Slava Kalyuga
- Funder: Leverhulme Trust
2021-2022: Designing and evaluating a novel board game to improve early numerical skills
- DME staff: Francesco Sella, Tim Jay
- Funder: Nuffield Foundation
2020-2024: Capturing child attention: Are perceptually rich stimuli the best way to aid number learning?
- DME staff: Megan Foulkes, Francesco Sella
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council Studentship
2020-2023: Skills Underlying Maths: The Role of Inhibitory Control in Learning Multiplication Tables
- DME staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborator: Lucy Cragg
- Funder: Economic and Social Research Council Studentship
2020-2022: Feedback and cognition: what is the role of prior knowledge?
- DME staff: Ian Jones
- Collaborator: Igor’ Kontorovich
- Funder: Royal Society
2020-2021: Multiplication and sleep - does learning before sleep improve recall?
- DME staff: Camilla Gilmore, Jayne Trickett
- Funder: British Academy Small Research Grant
2019-2024: Centre for Mathematical Cognition
- DME staff: Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis
- Funder: Research England
2019: Review of Evidence on Early Years and KS1 Mathematics Teaching
- DME staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: J. Hodgen, C. Foster, R. Marks & V. Simms
- Funder: Education Endowment Foundation
2019: LEGO® construction, spatial thinking and mathematics achievement
- DME staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Emily Farran
- Funder: Leverhulme Trust
2019-2023: Optimising learning of multiplication and division facts in schoolchildren
- DME staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Lucy Cragg, Times Tables Rock Stars
- Funder: ESRC collaborative studentship via Midlands Graduate School
2018-22: ‘1’ to ‘one’ and back again: A longitudinal investigation of the foundations of efficient number transcoding in early primary school
- DME staff: Chrissy Roberts, Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis
- Funder: ESRC collaborative studentship via Midlands Graduate School
2018-22: Why do some children make more educational progress than others?
- DME staff: Matthew Inglis, Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborator: No More Marking
- Funder: ESRC collaborative studentship via Midlands Graduate School
2014-22: Foundations of Mathematics: Understanding and Improving Early Numerical Skills
- DME Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Funder: Royal Society (Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship)
2017-21: Investigating and improving post-16 mathematics learning
- DME staff: Matthew Inglis, Lara Alcock
- Collaborator: Oxford University Press
- Funder: ESRC collaborative studentship via Midlands Graduate School
2017-21: How do numerical symbols gain meaning?
- DME Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Funder: Royal Society
2018-21: Partnership for Learning and Teaching in University Mathematics (PLATINUM).
- DME Staff: Barbara Jaworski, Stephanie Thomas, Paola Iannone
- Funder: Erasmus Plus
2017-20: Enabling Better Online Assessment in Mathematics
- DME Staff: Ian Jones
- Collaborators: Chris Sangwin, Tim Hunt, Tim Lowe
- Funder: Higher Education Academy
2017-20: Individual Differences in Attention in the Mathematics Classroom
- DME Staff: Matthew Inglis
- Collaborators: Ulises Xolocotzin Eligio
- Funder: British Academy
2017-19: Transforming Transitions
- DME Staff: Carol Robinson, Helen MacKenzie
- Collaborators: Professor Deborah Myhill
- Funder: HEFCE

2019-23: Reasoning skills in post-16 mathematics students
- DME staff: Lara Alcock,
- Collaborator: Mathematics in Education and Industry
- Funder: ESRC collaborative studentship via Midlands Graduate School
2019-20: Exploring socially-distributed professional knowledge for coherent curriculum design
- MEC Staff: Colin Foster
- Collaborators: Geoff Wake, Fay Baldry, Keiichi Nishimura
- Funder: ESRC
2019-20: Collaborative Lesson Research
- MEC staff: Colin Foster
- Collaborators: Geoff Wake, Keiichi Nishimura
- Funder: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
2016-18: Student learning through collaborative design and teaching of STEM Foundation Mathematics
- MEC Staff: Barbara Jaworski, Stephanie Thomas, Dave Hewitt
- Funder: HEFCE (Catalyst Fund)
2017-18: Cross-linguistic Effects on Adults’ Numeracy: A Novel Eye-tracking Approach
- MEC Staff: Iro Xenidou-Dervou, Camilla Gilmore
- Funder: British Academy
2017-18: The Role of Teacher Knowledge and Classroom Resources in Understanding Equivalence Relations in Mathematics
- MEC Staff: Ian Jones
- Collaborators: Jodie Hunter
- Funder: British Academy
2015-18: Mathematics Learning Disabilities from Childhood to Adolescence: New Evidence and Intervention for Very Preterm Children
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Samantha Johnson, Lucy Cragg, Victoria Simms, Neil Marlow, Rose Griffiths and Heather Wharrad
- Funder: Action Medical Research
2016-17: A review of interventions to improve primary school mathematics achievement
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Victoria Simms & Seaneen Sloan
- Funder: Nuffield Foundation
2017: Gender issues in STEM education
- MEC Staff: Paul Hernandez-Martinez
- Funder: British Council/CONACyT
2014-17: Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity and the Development of Early Numerical Skills
- MEC Staff: Sophie Batchelor
- Funder: ESRC
2015-16: Discourses of Mathematical Modelling in Higher Education in Norway and England
- MEC Staff: Paul Hernandez-Martinez & Stephanie Thomas
- Collaborators: Yuriy Rogovchenko & Olov Viirman
- Funder: MatRIC
2014-16: Understanding Mathematical Language: Construction and Analysis of Expert and Learner Corpora
- MEC Staff: Lara Alcock & Matthew Inglis
- Funder: British Academy
2013-16: SIGMA: National Mathematics and Statistics Support Activities
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft, Janette Matthews & Moira Petrie
- Funder: HEFCE
2014-15: Developing Secondary Education Progress Measures in Mathematics and English
- MEC Staff: Ian Jones
- Funder: No More Marking Ltd.
2013-15: Measuring Conceptual Understanding: The Case of Teaching with Abstract and Concrete Representations
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis & Ian Jones
- Funder: Nuffield Foundation
2012-15: Skills Underlying Maths: Understanding the role of executive functions in the development of mathematics proficiency
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Crag
- Funder: ESRC
2010-15: The relationship between advanced mathematical study and general thinking skills
- MEC Staff: Matthew Inglis
- Funders: Royal Society/ Worshipful Company of Actuaries
2013-14: Are A level mathematics standards the same across curricula?
- MEC Staff: Matthew Inglis, Ian Jones
- Funder: AQA
2012-14: The Impact of Premature Birth on Maths Achievement and Schooling
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Wolke, Johnson & Jaekel
- Funder: Nuffield Foundation
2009-14: Removing the mismatch between intentions and outcomes in GCSE mathematics
- MEC Staff: Ian Jones
- Funders: Royal Society/ Shuttleworth Foundation
2008-14: The roots of arithmetic: Linking numerical cognition with mathematics education
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Funder: British Academy
2011-13: Premature infants' skills in mathematics
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore
- Collaborators: Cragg, Johnson & Marlow
- Funder: Action Medical Research
2012: Assessment in first year calculus
- MEC Staff: Lara Alcock & Ian Jones
- Funder: HE STEM MU-MAP Project
2012: Lecturers' perceptions of CAA
- MEC Staff: Paul Hernandez-Martinez, Carol Robinson & Stephen Broughton
- Funder: HE STEM MU-MAP Project
2011-12: Improving the quality of GSCE Mathematics examinations
- MEC Staff: Matthew Inglis & Ian Jones
- Funder: Nuffield Foundation
2011-12: Views of graduates on the higher education curriculum
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft & Matthew Inglis
- Funder: National HE STEM Programme
2011-12: Second year mathematics beyond lectures
- MEC Staff: Lara Alcock, Tony Croft, Matthew Inglis, Barbara Jaworski & Aruna Palipana
- Collaborators: Brown, Kay, Kenny, McIver, Strohmaier, Fitzgerald, Hallnas, Hawkes, Hunsicker, Newbold
- Funder: National HE STEM Programme
2011: Promoting participation and engagement in post-compulsory mathematics education for STEM
- MEC Staff: Paul Hernandez-Martinez
- Collaborators: Wake & Williams
- Funder: ESRC
2010-11: Engineering students understanding mathematics (ESUM): An innovative teaching approach with integrated research
- MEC Staff: Barbara Jaworski
- Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering
2010-11: A pilot for a shared online statistics advisory service
- MEC Staff: Alun Owen
- Collaborators: Leckenby, Samuels & Wrightham
- Funder: National HE STEM Programme
2009-10: Evaluating a computer-based approach for improving proof comprehension
- MEC Staff: Lara Alcock & Matthew Inglis
- Funder: MSOR Network
2009-10: ExPOUND: Explaining proofs: Offering understanding through notated demonstrations
- MEC Staff: Lara Alcock & Aruna Palipana
- Collaborators: Barnett, Shields & Wilkinson
- Funder: JISC
2009-10: FETLAR: Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment resources
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft
- Collaborators: Fletcher & MSOR Network
- Funder: JISC
2009-10: RELEASE: Upgrade of mathcentre and mathtutor
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft
- Collaborators: Skillbank UK
- Funder: JISC
2009-10: Uncovering the sources of arithmetic
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore & Matthew Inglis
- Funder: ESRC
2009-10: How should the equals sign be taught?
- MEC Staff: Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis & Ian Jones
- Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
2009-10: Resources in mathematics for use with Electronic Voting Systems
- MEC Staff: Carol Robinson
- Funder: Sigma
2009-10: Technology for teaching
- MEC Staff: Carol Robinson & Joe Ward
- Collaborators: Campbell, Crawford, Evans & Hodgson
- Funder: Hewlett-Packard
2008-10: Establishing the effectiveness of LGEs as a teaching strategy
- MEC Staff: Matthew Inglis
- Collaborators: Iannone & Siemons
- Funder: MSOR Network
2005-10: HEFCE CETL Award
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft
- Collaborators: Lawson
- Funder: HEFCE
2008-09: An investigation into how teachers can motivate and enthuse able mathematicians by developing pedagogy through different approaches to working with AGT students at KS4 in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire
- MEC Staff: Rod Bond, David Green & Barbara Jaworski
- Funder: NCETM