Lecturer in Mathematical Cognition

Overview

Job Title: Lecturer in Mathematical Cognition
Job Reference: REQ250681
Date Posted: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Application Closing Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Location: Loughborough
Package: Research Teaching and Enterprise grade 7 from £46735 to £55755 per annum. Subject to annual pay award.

School of
Science

 

The Centre for Mathematical
Cognition (CMC) is one of the largest groups of mathematical
cognition researchers in the world.  Established in 2020, we used
a £7.2m ‘Expanding Excellence in England’ grant from Research
England to recruit a team of high-quality academics and invest in
world-class
facilities. In 2022, we led a successful £9.8m application to
host the five-year ESRC Centre for Early Mathematics Learning
(CEML). The CEML is the largest research project on early
mathematics learning ever funded by UK Research and Innovation:
it involves 19 academics (10 based in the CMC) and 14 research
and professional services staff (all based in the CMC). The CMC
also has a vibrant community of doctoral researchers, funded via
a range of sources including the Midlands Graduate School ESRC
Doctoral Training Partnership.

 

The CMC views mathematical cognition as a
fundamentally interdisciplinary endeavour. Colleagues
bring expertise in cognitive psychology, developmental
psychology, mathematics education, educational design,
neuroscience, mathematics, educational evaluation, metascience
and the philosophy of mathematical practice. To influence
educational practice, we partner with a wide range of regional,
national and international organisations. We coordinate the
Loughborough University Mathematics Education Network (LUMEN) – a
regional collaboration of schools and teachers – and in 2024 we
launched the LUMEN
mathematics curriculum, a fully resourced and evidence-based
curriculum for secondary. This and other examples of our work can
be found on the Centre’s
website.

 

Organisationally, the CMC sits within
Loughborough’s Department of Mathematics Education. Colleagues
develop and teach core and specialised modules on the
university’s successful undergraduate programmes in psychology
and mathematics; we also contribute to teaching statistics across
the campus, and to an interdisciplinary masters programme.

 

The CMC’s current strategic priorities are
to increase our capacity for research on:

• The cognitive foundations of early
  mathematics;
• Individual differences in mathematics
  learning, particularly dyscalculia, mathematics anxiety and
  health and clinical factors such as premature birth and
  ageing;
• Mathematical thinking and reasoning
  across development;
• Translation to practice and policy,
  using insights from basic science to improve education;
• Educational evaluation and the
  communication of research findings.

 

We seek to appoint excellent Lecturers or
Senior Lecturers (equivalent to Assistant Professor or Associate
Professor) who share our interdisciplinary view of mathematical
cognition, who are able to advance our teaching activities, and
who wish to contribute to our vibrant research culture.

 

To find out more about our work and
facilities, please visit the CMC website or the
CEML
website, or contact Ian Jones.

 

For more
information refer to the Job Description and Person
Specification.