Team

Dr Zhenzhen Miao (苗侦桢, 苗偵楨) is Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education at the School of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, China (PhD, Southampton). Her teaching spans mathematics and mathematics education, including advanced mathematics courses in Analytic Geometry, Probability & Statistics and Elementary Number Theory, alongside courses in mathematics education and teacher education.

Her research broadly concerns the quality, equity and improvement of mathematics education. She is particularly interested in mathematics teaching and learning, teacher professional learning and development, curriculum and assessment as well as international and comparative education. A substantial strand of her current research focuses on the analysis of large-scale educational assessment and survey data, including TIMSS, PISA and TALIS.

Methodologically, she combines classroom-based and video research with advanced quantitative approaches to the analysis of complex educational data. Her interests also extend to the wider field of STEM education. Her scholarship spans two Routledge monographs, journal articles and book chapters, alongside papers and presentations at international conferences. She also contributes to mathematics and STEM education through research, teacher development and professional service.

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.