I enjoy writing about mathematics as something created by people, with a history and a wider cultural context. I am also interested in how mathematics is taught, communicated and experienced by students. Much of my work sits somewhere between those interests.
Co-authored with Professor Louise Walker and Sophie Marshall, this article explores student partnership in mathematics education.
Read in MSOR Connections →Written for Chalkdust, this piece looks at Noether’s mathematics alongside the barriers she faced.
Read in Chalkdust →An article for The Mancunion about the historical development of Fermat’s little theorem and the mathematical conversations that eventually led to the result we know today.
Read the article →My reflections on my LMS-funded mathematics education project and the LMS Undergraduate Summer School. The piece first appeared on Dr Vahagn Aslanyan’s blog and was later published in the December 2025 issue of the LMS Newsletter.
Read the reflection →I spoke about student–staff partnership in mathematics, drawing on my abstract algebra education project and the collaborative work that grew from it.
IMA/LMS/RSS-funded national workshop, I contributed a student perspective to a keynote on developing scholarship with students as partners.
I presented a poster on co-creating teaching resources with students, developed with the University of Manchester Library Student Team using EducateMCR survey data.
I co-presented a lightning talk with Kai Prince and Neil Morrison about recurring administrative problems affecting the student experience and how institutions might respond more effectively.
Alongside mathematical writing, I maintain a more personal writing practice focused on identity and transformation. I mostly write creative nonfiction, often influenced by existentialist and absurdist ideas, and I am interested in how voice and form change in response to lived experience.
Some of this work is unpublished and intentionally personal. I have also written book reviews for the University of Manchester Library Student Team and use my personal blog as a space to experiment. This writing is quite different from my mathematical work, but it is necessary in the sense that it helps me not lose my head.
If you read these, you would probably understand me a little better:
A few albums that have shaped me:
Outside academic work, I enjoy volunteering, reading, creative-writing workshops and parkrun—sometimes. I also volunteer at the Manchester Literature Festival, where I heard spoken word performed over reggae beats, met Marcus du Sautoy and listened to readings of Seamus Heaney’s poetry.
At the Manchester Literature Festival.