Responsibilities

Director:  Longitudinal Proof Project (ESRC) 1999-2003

Co- Director:

• Techno-Mathematical Literacies in the Workplace  (ESRC/TLRP) 2003- 2007
• Workplace personalised learning environments for the development of employees' technical communicative skills (Development Grant EPSRC/ESRC-TLRP)  2006-7
• Enhancing and Assessing Complex Reasoning through Models and Modeling:  UK-US Collaborative Research  (NSF/ESRC) 2006-7

Chair:  London Mathematics Centre, 2004 -

New project:   Intelligent support for Mathematical Generalisation (EPSRC/ESRC) 2007 - 2011

Interests

I studied honours mathematics at the University of Manchester and have a masters and doctorate in mathematics education. I have been a Professor of Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education, University of London since 1984 and have directed over a dozen research projects concerned with mathematics at all levels and in a variety of contexts.

I co-authored Windows on Mathematical Meanings: Learning Cultures and Computers, and co-edited Computers and Exploratory Learning, and Rethinking the Mathematics Curriculum. I have been an editor for the International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning. I have served on the UK ESRC Research Grants Board, advised the National Science Foundation in US on research proposals in mathematics and science. I was Chair of the Joint Mathematical Council of the U.K. 1999-2003 and a member of the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) that speaks for the mathematics community to Government on policy matters. 1999-2003.

I was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list (January 2004) for services to mathematics education. Also in 2004, I was chosen as the first recipient of a new International medal, the Hans Freudenthal medal, in recognition of my cumulative programme of research.
www.mathunion.org/ICMI/Awards/2003/ HoylesCitation.html

In Dec 2004 I took up the position of the Government's Chief Adviser for Mathematics for 75% of my time. I am co-Chair of ongoing Seventeenth ICMI Study "Technology Revisited": Digital technologies and mathematics teaching and learning: rethinking the terrain, with the Study Conference held in Vietnam in Dec 2006.

I was awarded an honary doctorate by the Open University in 2006.

I was elected as member of the 2007-2009 Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), summer 2006.

Major research interests

mathematics used in the work place

design of computational environments for learning and sharing mathematics

students' conceptions of proof in secondary school mathematics and strategies for teaching proof