The Southampton Mathematics, Science and Health Education (MSHE) Research Centre is committed to building on its reputation for research in STEM subjects through expanding interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitating student training, and designing curriculum resources while evaluating teachers' professional development and students' conceptual understanding in mathematics, science, and health education. The Centre hosts numerous projects exploring topics like empowering students' health choices through science, revitalizing mathematics textbooks, and using digital technologies for teaching and learning.

3. Our research centre
Southampton's Mathematics,
Science and Health Education
(MSHE) Research Centre is
committed to building on its
internationally excellent and
world-leading reputation for
research in the areas of
Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) subjects. For our most
up-to-date events and
activities, visit our
blog: http://is.gd/mshesoton

4. The Centre is committed to…
• Expanding interdisciplinary research collaboration.
• Facilitating the training of MSHE students.
• Designing, developing and evaluating curriculum resources for classroom
teaching and learning in mathematics, science and health education.
• Evaluating teachers' professional development, its effectiveness and
impact on students and teachers in mathematics, science and health
education.
• Exploring students’ conceptual understanding of early mathematics,
reasoning skills, computational thinking, and emotional and social
development.
• Exploring STEM engagement including the links between science and
health literacy.
• Investigating the use of digital technologies as pedagogical tools and new
technologies for teaching and learning in mathematics, science and health
education.

5. • 6 centre meetings a year
• Of course, research the focus
• But we like to include researchers,
practitioners, teacher training, PGR students…
Bagust L.J. Galbraith D.W. Hyde R.M. Selby C.
Bokhove C. Garrett C. Jones D.K. Voutsina C.
Byrne J. Grace M.M. Lovelock D.M. Woods-Townsend K.
Campton I. Griffiths J.B. Perks M. Woollard W.J.
Christodoulou A. Hoyes L.A. Reynolds J.
Davey H. Hughes C.F.

6. Numerous projects, for example…
• LifeLab is a novel educational intervention designed to empower
secondary school pupils through science enquiry to understand the
consequences of lifestyle choices on their own health.
• Breathing new life in the School Mathematics Project, a
mathematics textbook series for KS3 and KS4.
• PriSciNet was an EU funded FP7 Supporting and coordinating action
(Call SiS-2010-2.2.1.1) on innovative methods in science education,
focusing on teacher training on inquiry based teaching methods on
a large scale in Europe
• The Southampton Education School has developed two online
courses (MOOCs) on Asian Mathematics with MacMillan on the
Futurelearn platform: World Class Maths: Asian Teaching Methods
and World Class Maths: Asian Teaching Practice.

7. Selection of recent publications
• Christodoulou, Antri and Grace, Marcus (2019) Argumentation within societal contexts in chemistry education. In,
Erduran, Sibel (ed.) Argumentation in Chemistry Education: Research, Policy and Practice. (Advances in Chemistry
Education Series, , (doi:10.1039/9781788012645-00197)) Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 197-227.
(doi:10.1039/9781788012645-00197).
• Ding, Liping, Jones, Keith and Sikko, Svein Arne (2019) Interconnectedness and differences between action
research and a lesson design study in Shanghai, China. Educational Action Research.
(doi:10.1080/09650792.2019.1579745).
• Campbell, Ryan and Bokhove, Christian (2019) Building learning culture through effective uses of groupwork.
Impact. (In Press)
• Woods-Townsend, K., Leat, H., Bay, J., Bagust, L., Davey, H., Lovelock, D., Christodoulou, A., Griffiths, J., Grace, M.,
Godfrey, K., Hanson, M. and Inskip, H. (2018) LifeLab Southampton: a programme to engage adolescents with
DOHaD concepts as a tool for increasing health literacy in teenagers -a pilot cluster-randomized control trial.
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 9 (5), 475-480. (doi:10.1017/S2040174418000429).
• Galbraith, David and Baaijen, Veerle (2019) Aligning keystrokes with cognitive processes in writing. In, Lindgren,
Eva and Sullivan, Kirk (eds.) Observing writing: Insights from keystroke logging and handwriting. (Studies in
Writing, , (doi:10.1163/9789004392526_015), 38) Brill, pp. 306-325. (doi:10.1163/9789004392526_015).
• Mindetbay, Yerkhan, Amankeldiuly, Bokhove, Christian and Woollard, John (2019) What is the relationship
between students’ computational thinking performance and school achievement? International Journal of
Computer Science Education in Schools. (In Press)
• Voutsina, Chronoula, George, Lois and Jones, Keith (2019) Microgenetic analysis of young children’s shifts of
attention in arithmetic tasks: underlying dynamics of change in phases of seemingly stable task performance.
Educational Studies in Mathematics. (doi:10.1007/s10649-019-09883-w).
https://is.gd/msheresearch for our latest publications

8. Ideas?
Get in touch with our centre
members or heads, Marcus Grace and
me.
C.Bokhove@soton.ac.uk
M.M.Grace@soton.ac.uk