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Name: Cordelia Webb, Chair
Name: Cordelia Webb, Chair
Institution: Imperial College London
Institution: Imperial College London
Role: Teaching Fellow
Role: Teaching Fellow
I first got into digital accessibility while working as a specialised maths and science disability support worker. Lots of my work involved adapting existing content which introduced me to the world of accessible maths. Since moving into lecturing and curriculum design, I have further explored the challenges and solutions of digital mathematics, particularly from a student perspective. I am very interested in how students use digital tools in STEMM subjects and how they can be further supported.
Contact information: c.g.webb@imperial.ac.uk
Name: Lillian Joy, Founder Chair
Name: Lillian Joy, Founder Chair
Institution: University of York
Institution: University of York
Role: Digital Education Manager
Role: Digital Education Manager
For my back story on how I got involved in making maths accessible, read How a learning technologist came to work on accessible maths. I've been exploring this area since 2018 with disabled students at York and continue to do user research with them. The biggest challenge I'm facing with accessible maths right now is trying to make the maze of solutions easier to understand!
Contact information : lilian.joy@york.ac.uk
Name: Jenny Hughes/Steel, Founder Chair
Name: Jenny Hughes/Steel, Founder Chair
Institution: University of Sheffield
Institution: University of Sheffield
Role: Digital Learning Advisor (Faculty of Science)
Role: Digital Learning Advisor (Faculty of Science)
Previously I was a 6th form maths teacher and now I'm a digital learning advisor working with the Faculty of Science. I'm trying to bring together staff from across the university to work on guidance and support for staff to improve the digital accessibility of maths and stats resources.
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Name: Emma Cliffe
Name: Emma Cliffe
Institution: University of Bath
Institution: University of Bath
Role: Head of the Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
Role: Head of the Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
Interested in access to programmes of study which contain substantial quantities of mathematics and see MASH Mathematics Accessibility
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Name: Andrew Gilbert
Name: Andrew Gilbert
Institution: University of Exeter
Institution: University of Exeter
Role: Professor
Role: Professor
I lecture in mathematics and am interested in making resources more accessible. I have no particular expertise but am making use of bookML to put lecture notes and similar into html. I am interested in following developments through this very friendly JISC community.
Contact information: A.D.Gilbert@exeter.ac.uk
Name: Gavin Henrick
Name: Gavin Henrick
Institution: Brickfield Education Labs
Institution: Brickfield Education Labs
Role: Co-Founder
Role: Co-Founder
Interested in Digital Accessibility, Moodle Accessibility, Helping fix issues not just find them. We develop the Moodle Accessibility Toolkit - which is in Moodle 3.11 and available as a subscription for Moodle 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11.
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Name: Paul Hewson
Name: Paul Hewson
Institution: University of Exeter
Institution: University of Exeter
Role: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics
Role: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics
I've spent parts of career in industry and the public sector, and other parts in academia. I'm keen to ensure that our academic practice is accessible.
Contact information: p.hewson2@exeter.ac.uk
Name: David Hodge
Name: David Hodge
Institution: University of Glasgow
Institution: University of Glasgow
Role: Mathematics Lecturer and Tutor
Role: Mathematics Lecturer and Tutor
I've been developing learning resources for modules I teach for 5+ years now, so have worked with a fairly large range of development environments. Recently for accessible resources I've been primarily working with how to generate high quality HTML outputs from LaTeX (with PDF simultaneously available). So I've been working with Markdown in various forms, like Bookdown/RMarkdown/Quarto.
Contact information: contact@djhodge.com
Name: Christian Lawson-Perfect
Name: Christian Lawson-Perfect
Institution: Newcastle University
Institution: Newcastle University
Role: Senior learning software developer
Role: Senior learning software developer
As the lead developer of Numbas and Chirun, I need to ensure they're accessible by all of our users. I'm also disabled myself - a long list including autism, dyspraxia, colourblindness and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - so I was affected by inaccessible material during my studies. I'm working to provide tools to improve accessibility of digital maths, and to help lecturers make their material more accessible.
Contact information: christian.perfect@ncl.ac.uk
Name: Josh Lim
Name: Josh Lim
Institution: University of Bath
Institution: University of Bath
Role: Learning Technologist
Role: Learning Technologist
I aim to promote and support staff engagement with tools for STEM, including digital accessibility and inclusion. I maintain/write the University of Bath's Writing Accessibility Technical Content resources.
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Name: Tucker MacNeill
Name: Tucker MacNeill
Institution: University of Brighton
Institution: University of Brighton
Role: Learning Technologist
Role: Learning Technologist
I've been a digital accessibility champion for years, in my role as a Learning Technologist. For the first 20 years of my working life I didn't spend much time thinking about accessible maths. But in the last five years, I've been supporting the School of Applied Sciences, and suddenly I found the need to contemplate accessibility in a whole new light. This group has been very helpful on my journey towards being supportive of all things 'accessible' in our learning materials.
Contact information: t.macneill@brighton.ac.uk
Name: Vayia Malamidou
Name: Vayia Malamidou
Institution: University of Birmingham
Institution: University of Birmingham
Role: Digital Accessibility Manager
Role: Digital Accessibility Manager
The University of Birmingham is strongly committed to eliminating digital barriers for our students and staff. Through this work, I have become increasingly interested in accessible maths and in finding practical ways to prevent mathematical content from excluding people who rely on assistive technology. Recently, my focus has been on improving accessibility within LaTeX workflows, including a project to produce tagged PDFs. I am keen to learn more about effective end‑to‑end workflows and how different screen readers interpret maths so we can give staff clear, practical guidance that helps them create accessible materials for their students.
Contact information: v.malamidou.1@bham.ac.uk
Name: Vincenzo Mantova
Name: Vincenzo Mantova
Institution: University of Leeds
Institution: University of Leeds
Role: Associate Professor
Role: Associate Professor
I got interested in accessible maths in 2020 and started working on solutions to make maths accessible, focusing on making the content strictly better for every student (for instance mobile friendliness, dark mode, animations, hidden solutions), while simultaneously reducing the additional workload on staff to the bare minimum. I develop and maintain BookML, a tool that tries to do all of the above, based on LaTeXML.
Contact information: v.l.mantova@leeds.ac.uk
Name: Luke Searle
Name: Luke Searle
Institution: University of Southampton
Institution: University of Southampton
Role: Learning Designer
Role: Learning Designer
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Contact information : l.searle@southampton.ac.uk
Name: Jill Shacklock
Name: Jill Shacklock
Institution: University of Brighton
Institution: University of Brighton
Role: Information Officer (Information Services)
Role: Information Officer (Information Services)
Interested in digital accessibility, digital communication, digital skills development. I am keen to raise awareness of accessibility issues and solutions. I have worked for an IT department in HE for 36 years and have in the past taught maths at various levels from primary to undergraduate on a part time, and sometimes voluntary, basis.
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Name: Ben Watson
Name: Ben Watson
Institution: UCL
Institution: UCL
Role: Head of Digital Accessibility
Role: Head of Digital Accessibility
I am interested in finding ways to make the creation of accessible Maths easier for everyone so that we can begin to expect it by design and as part of a standard baseline, not just for higher education, but for education generally. Currently there is a perception of a great deal of potential complexity related to the creation of accessible maths which may inhibit wider collective progress. As part of this brilliant group I'd love to help to demystify some of these processes and create a baseline that gives everyone confidence in the basic building blocks and principles that can be applied across the education sector building, for example, on the Accessible STEMM introdcution created by Dr Jim Tyson and the Thomas Poicklington Trust.
Contact information: b-watson@ucl.ac.uk
Name: Konstantina Zerva
Name: Konstantina Zerva
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Role: Facilitator of Technology Enhanced Learning
Role: Facilitator of Technology Enhanced Learning
Interested in e-assessment of Mathematics and Sciences; interactive graphs.
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