Laura Black
@blackl19.bsky.social
Academic - University of Manchester - researching identity in maths education and STEM and links with gender, class, ethnicity etc. views own.
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Our next conference will be held at the University of Glasgow on Fri 13th and Sat 14th June - more details can be found here: bsrlm-members.org.uk/pages/15-con...
Conferences | BSRLM
The BSRLM holds a day conference every term. Everyone is welcome.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Our next conference will be held at the University of Glasgow on Fri 13th and Sat 14th June - more details can be found here: bsrlm-members.org.uk/pages/15-con...
Very proud to have co-authored with Emilia Howker this paper on parents' everyday maths and its relation with thier experiences of school maths. Important work from Emilia's thesis on parents' experiences of poverty, alienation and finding hope. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The role of everyday mathematics in parent and caregiver experiences of alienation from school mathematics - Educational Studies in Mathematics
Existing research has highlighted how many parents from ‘oppressed’ communities feel alienated from schooling and particularly from school mathematics—the ‘arbitrary’ curriculum often has little appar...
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May 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Very proud to have co-authored with Emilia Howker this paper on parents' everyday maths and its relation with thier experiences of school maths. Important work from Emilia's thesis on parents' experiences of poverty, alienation and finding hope. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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That rarest of things in contemporary academic life - a permanent job! L/SL in Global Political Economy here at the University of Manchester. DM me if you have questions.
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy:Oxford Road
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March 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
That rarest of things in contemporary academic life - a permanent job! L/SL in Global Political Economy here at the University of Manchester. DM me if you have questions.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Thrilled to have this report out exploring the experiences of LGBTQIA+ young people in greater Manchester 👇 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We are excited to share with you the findings from the BeeProud project; a collaborative study conducted by academic researchers at UoM and young researchers at @theproudtrust.bsky.social.
Building on #BeeWell survey findings, BeeProud explored the experiences of LGBTQIA+ young people.
Building on #BeeWell survey findings, BeeProud explored the experiences of LGBTQIA+ young people.
March 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thrilled to have this report out exploring the experiences of LGBTQIA+ young people in greater Manchester 👇 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Announcing the Seeds of Hope: Advancing Climate and Environmental Action event! 🌱 A panel discussion followed by a reception for the exhibition.
@hcrinstitute.bsky.social & MCR Confucius
📅 20 March 2025
⏰ 4-5:30pm
📍 SG.16, South Foyer of Sam Alex Building
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@hcrinstitute.bsky.social & MCR Confucius
📅 20 March 2025
⏰ 4-5:30pm
📍 SG.16, South Foyer of Sam Alex Building
🎫 ow.ly/zS3B50V67AM
February 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Announcing the Seeds of Hope: Advancing Climate and Environmental Action event! 🌱 A panel discussion followed by a reception for the exhibition.
@hcrinstitute.bsky.social & MCR Confucius
📅 20 March 2025
⏰ 4-5:30pm
📍 SG.16, South Foyer of Sam Alex Building
🎫 ow.ly/zS3B50V67AM
@hcrinstitute.bsky.social & MCR Confucius
📅 20 March 2025
⏰ 4-5:30pm
📍 SG.16, South Foyer of Sam Alex Building
🎫 ow.ly/zS3B50V67AM
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Watch out for two workshops being run by the Teaching Maths for Social Justice Network #TMSJN at the Joint Conference of Maths Subject Associations on 15th April: futureproofingthecurriculum.org.uk
Home - Joint Conference of Mathematics Subject Associations
#post_contentMathematical Conference 2025
futureproofingthecurriculum.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Watch out for two workshops being run by the Teaching Maths for Social Justice Network #TMSJN at the Joint Conference of Maths Subject Associations on 15th April: futureproofingthecurriculum.org.uk
Our Very Local Maths project has been bringing art and maths together in the community workshops to address the question: what is a community mathematician?
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Our Very Local Maths project has been bringing art and maths together in the community workshops to address the question: what is a community mathematician?
Are you within 4 years of your PhD award? UoM bicentenary fellowships (3 years) are currently open for applications. Take a look 👇
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
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January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Are you within 4 years of your PhD award? UoM bicentenary fellowships (3 years) are currently open for applications. Take a look 👇
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New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...
University Reimagined - Manchester University Press
The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...
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Great to hear from so many colleagues @university of Manchester in the Manchester Institute of Education speaking on research and scholarship in a forum to celebrate so many successes in research
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Great to hear from so many colleagues @university of Manchester in the Manchester Institute of Education speaking on research and scholarship in a forum to celebrate so many successes in research
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Free open access article published today @tandfresearch.bsky.social about the challenges faced by Ukrainian refugee students learning mathematics in UK schools: doi.org/10.1080/0305... @colinfoster77.bsky.social
Challenges faced by Ukrainian students learning mathematics in UK schools
Previous research on how UK schools can meet the needs of refugee students has not focused on Ukrainian refugee students’ learning of mathematics. This group faces specific challenges, simultaneous...
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January 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Free open access article published today @tandfresearch.bsky.social about the challenges faced by Ukrainian refugee students learning mathematics in UK schools: doi.org/10.1080/0305... @colinfoster77.bsky.social
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If you haven't submitted your abstract for the Gender & Education Conference 2025, there is still time! The deadline has been extended to the 20th of January. You can submit your abstract here ---> www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
Re-Routing and Re-Imagining abstract submission
Complete the form to submit your abstract for the 21st Gender in Education Association conference, hosted by Manchester Met.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If you haven't submitted your abstract for the Gender & Education Conference 2025, there is still time! The deadline has been extended to the 20th of January. You can submit your abstract here ---> www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
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Delighted to announce that the wonderful @janmcarthur.bsky.social will run a workshop on using theory in educational research for @uomseed.bsky.social PGRs whilst visiting the Manchester Institute of Education. 16th January, 3-5pm. PGRs can book a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-theo...
Using theory in empirical research - Jan McArthur PGR workshop
Join us for a workshop led by Professor Jan McArthur, where PGRs can explore ways to use theory in their PhD research
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December 19, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Delighted to announce that the wonderful @janmcarthur.bsky.social will run a workshop on using theory in educational research for @uomseed.bsky.social PGRs whilst visiting the Manchester Institute of Education. 16th January, 3-5pm. PGRs can book a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-theo...
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We're inviting proposals for an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) feasibility study into the barriers that underrepresented engineers encounter in their careers.
We're looking for experienced researchers and organisations with longitudinal study experience: raeng.org.uk/about-us/wor...
We're looking for experienced researchers and organisations with longitudinal study experience: raeng.org.uk/about-us/wor...
December 16, 2024 at 12:06 PM
We're inviting proposals for an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) feasibility study into the barriers that underrepresented engineers encounter in their careers.
We're looking for experienced researchers and organisations with longitudinal study experience: raeng.org.uk/about-us/wor...
We're looking for experienced researchers and organisations with longitudinal study experience: raeng.org.uk/about-us/wor...
What a great little collection of articles social justice in maths education. Look forward to discussing these with our students.
The Social Justice special issue of ATM’s Mathematics Teaching Journal is now available online and has been made ‘open access’ to all, so please do share with colleagues. It includes articles by Alf Coles, Pete Wright, Rose Griffiths and many more. atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
What a great little collection of articles social justice in maths education. Look forward to discussing these with our students.
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Interested in the #Environment & #Education? Join our supportive @beranews.bsky.social virtual writing retreat on 24th Jan & make connections. www.bera.ac.uk/event/writin...
Writing Retreat and Coffee hour
This writing retreat is aimed at providing a friendly space for writing and networking and in particular ECRs, organised by the Education for Environmental Sustainability SIG. From feedback...
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December 12, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Interested in the #Environment & #Education? Join our supportive @beranews.bsky.social virtual writing retreat on 24th Jan & make connections. www.bera.ac.uk/event/writin...
Congrats all
🌟 We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award is the initiative, #BeeWell: Making Young People’s Wellbeing Everybody’s Business, led by the University of Manchester.
Find out more: www.bera.ac.uk/news/bera-an...
Find out more: www.bera.ac.uk/news/bera-an...
December 10, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Congrats all
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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A bit of #maths #history at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social makes the news!
Making mistakes in maths is not a new thing, by a long, long way, and is an essential part of learning.
🏛️🎓 #MathsInMuseums #MathsToday
Making mistakes in maths is not a new thing, by a long, long way, and is an essential part of learning.
🏛️🎓 #MathsInMuseums #MathsToday
Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.
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December 4, 2024 at 8:14 AM
A bit of #maths #history at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social makes the news!
Making mistakes in maths is not a new thing, by a long, long way, and is an essential part of learning.
🏛️🎓 #MathsInMuseums #MathsToday
Making mistakes in maths is not a new thing, by a long, long way, and is an essential part of learning.
🏛️🎓 #MathsInMuseums #MathsToday
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Enjoyed a super inaugural lecture by the indomitable Prof Laura Black on maths education. Great job congrats on becoming a professor!
November 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Enjoyed a super inaugural lecture by the indomitable Prof Laura Black on maths education. Great job congrats on becoming a professor!
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GEA Conference 2025 | May 27–30 | Manchester Metropolitan Uni
Join us to explore re-routing, diversifying & trans*forming routes to, through and within gender & education. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20th Dec 2024. For further info: www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
GEA Conference 2025 | May 27–30 | Manchester Metropolitan Uni
Join us to explore re-routing, diversifying & trans*forming routes to, through and within gender & education. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20th Dec 2024. For further info: www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
November 28, 2024 at 1:48 PM
🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨
GEA Conference 2025 | May 27–30 | Manchester Metropolitan Uni
Join us to explore re-routing, diversifying & trans*forming routes to, through and within gender & education. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20th Dec 2024. For further info: www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
GEA Conference 2025 | May 27–30 | Manchester Metropolitan Uni
Join us to explore re-routing, diversifying & trans*forming routes to, through and within gender & education. Call for abstracts is now open, deadline 20th Dec 2024. For further info: www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
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Have you seen these short videos? Aimed at researchers who are keen to involve young people in their research as advisors/project partners, we coproduced this series of supportive HOW TO videos. digitalyouth.ac.uk/resources/wa... #copro #youthinvolvement
Watch & listen - Digital Youth
Explore our video and podcast library What is genuine collaboration? What does good involvement look like?
digitalyouth.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Have you seen these short videos? Aimed at researchers who are keen to involve young people in their research as advisors/project partners, we coproduced this series of supportive HOW TO videos. digitalyouth.ac.uk/resources/wa... #copro #youthinvolvement
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
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**Tell Everyone**
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Reprofessionalising teaching - authority, accountability and attrition - UoM blog
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Re-professionalising teaching: addressing authorisation, accountability and attrition
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November 22, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Reprofessionalising teaching - authority, accountability and attrition - UoM blog
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