Liz Woodham
Primary Coordinator
Liz was a primary school teacher in north London before joining the NRICH team. Liz's role as Primary Coordinator involves working as part of a team to develop primary-level materials for the website and to run associated teacher professional development. Liz is a member of the joint MA ATM primary expert group.
Charlie Gilderdale
Secondary Coordinator
Charlie has taught mathematics in three local secondary schools, including a stint as a Head of Department. During the last 35 years he has worked at the University of Cambridge, initially in the Faculty of Education training new secondary mathematics teachers, and more recently as a member of the Millennium Mathematics Project, contributing to the NRICH website and working in schools with students and teachers. His recent work has focussed on problem solving and on creating opportunities for learning mathematics through exploration and discussion. He has developed resources for secondary teachers which aim to enrich the secondary school curriculum and resources for secondary students which challenge them to think mathematically.
Oscar Gillespie
Web Application Developer
Oscar joined NRICH in 2018 and builds HTML5 interactives for this website. He worked for Douglas Adams in his first job, spent 16 years in the games industry, worked in solar energy and served as a local politician for a while, and worked in technology for chemistry education, then literature education, before landing very happily in the world of maths. He is particularly interested in accessibility, cellular automata and board games.
Dane Rossenrode
Website Developer
Dane is our newest member of the team. He's been running his own small website design and development agency for the past few years, though has always wanted to work with a team like MMP. Dane's from beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, and loves playing sports like squash, judo, and climbing. He studied Business Science at the University of Cape Town, and has been in the UK since Autumn 2022. If you ever have a question about websites, he'll be very keen to answer it and chat further.
Claire Metcalfe
Claire runs the STEP Support Programme and provides support through online resources and webinars to students applying to study Maths at university. She is also a Bye-Fellow at Lucy Cavendish college where she supervises first year students,
In addition to the above, Claire edits and develops new NRICH Post-16 problems.
In her spare time Claire spends as much time outdoors as possible and enjoys cani-cross, dog agility training and horseriding.
Jenny Gallagher
Jenny joined NRICH in 2012 when she was a maths undergraduate at Cambridge University, and she spent a few summers working with the primary team while she finished her degree and PGCE, and during her work as a primary school teacher. Since leaving teaching, Jenny has worked for NRICH part-time alongside private tutoring and alternative provision tutoring, where she teaches children who are currently out of school. Jenny writes and edits NRICH tasks, as well as publishing the primary student solutions.
Julia Hawkins is the Head of Operations of the MMP. Before joining the MMP, Julia taught in secondary schools and was a GCSE examiner, and then worked in the commercial sector developing international training workshops and conferences on development and infrastructure finance for clients including the EBRD and World Bank.
Since joining the MMP in 1999 to help set up and develop the project, she has played a central role in strategic planning, management, fundraising, evaluation, and external liaison, with the project growing to become one of the University of Cambridge's flagship outreach initiatives. She sits on a number of committees and working groups concerned with outreach, access, online communication and community engagement, has been a school governor for two UK secondary schools, and in 2008 was seconded to the post of Interim Head of Widening Participation in the University of Cambridge’s Admissions Office.
She has managed a wide range of external collaborations, including our Maths and Sport project as an official partner in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games education programme, and projects with Arsenal FC and the BBC. Her work with policy makers has included leading a study commissioned by the Royal Society’s Advisory Committee for Mathematics Education evaluating the national provision and take-up of mathematics enrichment activity, from which the recommendations were adopted by the UK Government's Department for Education, and she has advised several other departments, universities and institutions, nationally and internationally, on public engagement, outreach and social impact strategies and practice.
Lizzie Kimber
Lizzie has taught maths at schools and universities and has also worked on several curriculum projects, including Underground Mathematics. She has been involved in mathematics outreach for many years, including Ri Mathematics Masterclasses and running summer schools for the UK Mathematics Trust. Lizzie combines working for NRICH with researching mathematics classroom language at University of Oxford, where she has also taught on the Secondary Mathematics PGCE. Lizzie develops NRICH tasks and resources and publishes secondary students' solutions.
Clare Fanthorpe
Clare taught Maths and Further Maths A-levels for two years before joining NRICH in 2015. She continued to teach part-time, initially maths to sixth formers in London, and then English to adults in Portugal and Italy. She also learnt to code and turned her hand to data science, allowing her to contribute to some research into agriculture and to work in medical imaging. Now, when she's not editing and publishing student solutions, Clare teaches data science to apprentices and other adult learners. She is also the treasurer of the housing cooperative she lives in, where she looks after the garden and the trees.