Following unanimous agreement at the AGM in November 2024, BSRLM has established a Solidarity Fund. The purpose of this fund is to support mathematics educators in the UK who have been affected by war, forced migration or other forms of threat or discrimination. This fund offers 2 years free membership and will cover the registration costs for all BSRLM conferences in that … [Read more...]
New Researcher Award 2024: Despoina Boli
BSRLM is happy to announce our New Researcher Award (Leone Burton Prize ) (2024). The awardee is Despoina Boli from University College London. Her submission titled as “Mathematics GCSE resit students: heterogeneous patterns of affect, participation and attainment”. The BSRLM Executive … [Read more...]
Welcoming visiting academics to our Day Conferences
BSRLM welcomes mathematics researchers and educators belonging to other mathematics associations to consider presenting and/or attending our day conferences. This might be particularly opportunistic for those who are visiting colleagues in the United Kingdom. The next conference is in person at the University of Southampton on Saturday 2nd November 2024 and the Saturday 1st … [Read more...]
Winner of the Janet Duffin award 2023 is Jennifer Norris
Following a membership vote, BSRLM is delighted to announce the winner of the Janet Duffin award 2023, Jennifer Norris, for her paper “The positioning of GCSE and Functional Skills in Further Education: how do vocational students make sense of post-16 mathematics pathways?”. Jennifer is invited to give a plenary talk at the next day conference. Congratulations to Jennifer and … [Read more...]
Alf Coles, responds to questions about his first year as Chair of BSRLM
It is now one year into your term as Chair of BSRLM: Could you outline activities that you feel are important for the organisation during this time? What are you and the committee hoping to achieve in the next two years? The year has certainly gone quickly! We have had 3 successful conferences in the last year (in Manchester, Bristol and online), and three fantastic issues … [Read more...]