Team

Dr Zhenzhen Miao (苗侦桢, 苗偵楨) is Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education at Jiangxi Normal University, China. A recipient of the university’s Outstanding Returnee Scholar scheme, she delivers a teaching portfolio spanning advanced mathematics—such as Analytic Geometry and Probability—alongside maths teacher education courses. Her expertise stems fundamentally from the synergy between mathematical subject matter and extensive teaching observation, providing a holistic foundation for cultivating cognitive, metacognitive and affective excellence in learners and future educators.

Dr Miao earned her PhD from the University of Southampton (2016). Her doctoral research, which utilised a synchronous tri-camera protocol to investigate teaching effectiveness in China and England, gained significant international attention; findings were released at the BERA 2014 conference and subsequently cited by UK policymakers.

Currently, she leads the MasterMT project, a large-scale study of 70 master teachers and 3,000 students, while conducting multiverse analyses of international datasets. A National Excellent Mentor Award (2023) recipient, her work focuses on scaling masterly maths teaching and the ethical, safe and strategic integration of AI to enhance teacher noticing, pedagogical reasoning and teaching practices. To date, her research has been published in peer reviewed journals and two Routledge monographs. She’s a contributor to international research conferences (such as AERA, BERA and ICME) and various teacher PD events.

Dr Christian Bokhove is Professor in Mathematics Education at the Southampton Education School. From 1998 to 2012 he was secondary mathematics and computer science teacher in a secondary school in the Netherlands. In 2012 he took up a post at the University of Southampton. In his work, he specialises in mathematics teaching, textbook and technology use, international comparisons, and computational research methods. His work is collaborative in nature; rather than just look at mathematics education from a distance, he likes to collaborate with practitioners, so they can benefit from research, and researcher can benefit from being rooted in classroom practices.

Professor David Reynolds, CBE, was Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Head of Department and Professor of Education at Swansea University, United Kingdom. From 2021, he was Distinguished Professor of Education at Hangzhou Normal University, China. He has published extensively in the areas of educational effectiveness, comparative education and educational policy (over 20 books, 150 articles) and has lectured, consulted and/or researched in over 70 countries.