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Lucy Rycroft-Smith

Lucy Rycroft-Smith

Research Associate/Course Assistant

Qualifications

BSc (Hons, Open) PGCE Mathematics (Open) MEd (Cambridge) PhD (Cambridge)

Memberships/Professional Bodies

Personal profile

Lucy Rycroft-Smith is a writer, researcher, speaker and designer in mathematics education, with particular expertise as a creative knowledge broker. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge in knowledge brokering – investigating ways in which education research may be transformed for policy and practice. She is the author of The Equal Classroom: Life-Changing Thinking About Gender (2019) and Flip the System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto (2017), The Primary Teacher's Maths Journeybook : A Year of Professional Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and forthcoming Springer volume on the use of the arts in mathematics education. She also writes and researches around issues of AI in education and society; gender and sexuality in education; intersections between mathematics (including statistics) and the arts; and infographic, diagram and graphical abstract design.

Academic Groups/Areas/Links:
MERG

PACES (PPD Master's course) May be supervising on the Tripos again this year Teaching several CARM courses

education; mathematics education; arts-based research; creative research methods; mathematics communication; research dissemination and translations; AI in education; music and mathematics

Current Research Project(s):
Oracy Progression Framework Tappy Math(s) (PI)