Lara Alcock
Lara Alcock is a British mathematics educator. She is a reader in mathematics education at Loughborough University, head of the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough, and the author of several books on mathematics.
Alcock won the Selden Prize for her research in mathematics education, and is a National Teaching Fellow.Alcock earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Warwick, and in 2001 completed a PhD in mathematics education at Warwick. Her dissertation, Categories, definitions and mathematics: Student reasoning about objects in analysis, was supervised by Adrian Simpson. After working as an assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, she returned to the UK as a teaching fellow at Essex University. She moved to Loughborough in 2007.Recognition
Alcock is the 2012 winner of the Annie and John Selden Prize for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, given by the Mathematical Association of America.
She was named a National Teaching Fellow by the Higher Education Academy in 2015.Books
Alcock is the author of:
- Ideas from Mathematics Education: An Introduction for Mathematicians
- How to Study for a Mathematics Degree / How to Study as a Mathematics Major ; Wie man erfolgreich Mathematik studiert
- How to Think about Analysis
- Mathematics Rebooted: A Fresh Approach to Understanding
