Inside the mathematics class: sociological perspectives on participation, inclusion, and enhancement

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Notes on contributor

Heather Mendick works as a freelance academic focusing on science, mathematics and technology; equity issues; youth aspirations and choices; and the relationship between learning and popular culture. Her main current collaborative research explores how changing ideas about geeks are impacting on who studies and works in technology. She is the author or co-author of three books: Masculinities in Mathematics, Urban Youth and Schooling and Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth. She has published widely, blogs irregularly on education and politics, and tweets from @helensclegel. She still does a bit of maths teaching, is trying to learn Spanish, is excited by the growing popularity of veganism and spends most of her free time trying to secure a Corbyn-led Labour government.