About Lara Alcock
Lara Alcock was a mathematician and university teacher.
Career and research After working as an assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, she returned to the UK as a teaching fellow at Essex University. She moved to Loughborough in 2007.
Publications Alcock's publications How to Think about Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2014) Mathematics Rebooted: A Fresh Approach to Understanding (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Awards and honours Alcock is the 2012 winner of the Annie and John Selden Prize for research in undergraduate mathematics education, given by the Mathematical Association of America.
Alcock was the inaugural winner of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications John Blake University Teaching Medal in 2021.
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