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Dr Helen Martin

Dr Helen Martin
Dr Helen Martin
Dr Helen Martin

BSc (Hons), PGCE, PhD

Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

51cg
Email Address
h.martin@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 274769
Office Address
MR610 MacRobert Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
581 King Street
AB24 5UA

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School/Department
School of Education




Biography

Helen Martin is a Lecturer in Mathematics Education where she specialises in developing pedagogical design capacity and supporting professionally informed ethical decision-making. Her research and teaching are based on the design principles ‘valuing diversity, developing flexibility and making connections’ with an emphasis on how others make sense of doing mathematics, becoming and being mathematicians within a community. Helen has led collaborative projects across universities around E-Formative Assessment, online study sessions for primary pre-service teachers and Multiplicative and Algebraic Reasoning across Scottish schools as well as continuing to work at a National level with the Scottish Government, , and the .

An important part of encouraging more young people to recognise themselves as mathematicians involves supporting enrichment opportunities for children and young people including the Royal Institution Maths Masterclasses from way back as a tutor with Prof. Edward Patterson, Stem in the Pipeline, UKMT Team Maths challenges, (now in its 50th year) and the Primary Enterprising Maths Challenge (nearing it's 25th anniversary) started here in Aberdeen with events now running across Scotland.

She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the international open access Education in the North journal (now in its 60th year) which supports researchers at every stage of their careers across the Arctic and beyond where she works closely with thematic network and The Centre for the North. The design principles 'valuing diversity, developing flexibility and making connections' are now used alongside the extensive editorial expertise to support early career researchers as programme director of the MEd Professional Education, EdD course coordinator and REF impact lead. 

Qualifications

  • PhD Mathematics Education 
    2014 - 51cg 
  • PGCE Secondary Mathematics 
    1990 - University of Edinburgh 
  • BSc (Hons) Mathematics 
    1989 - University of St Andrews 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

University Court elected member Nov 2020 - present

Finance and Resource Committee (FRC) Sept 2023 - present

Govenance and Nominations Committee (GNN) Feb 2021 - Sept 2023

Leadership & Governance workstream (ACS) Feb 2026 - present

Senate elected member Oct 2017 - Sept 2020 

Senate Business Committee (SBC) member Sept 2018 - Sept 2020

Senate Effectiveness Review group elected member 2019/20, 2020/21

UOA Ref Impact Leads School REF Impact Lead Sept 2024 - present

School Research Committee Sept 2021- present

School EDI Committee Chair (Feb 2023 - Oct 2025); member 2023 - present

Education in the North Chair and Editor-in-chief May 2020 - Present; Book Review Editor 2015-2020

The Centre for the North board member

External Memberships

Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Joint Chair of the Education Committee and member of Council, Sept 25 - present

Joint Mathematical Council of the UK, member Apr 2026 - present

British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM) member of Higher Education Mathematics Group

PRIMES: Pedagogy and Practice in Mathematics Education Scotland Member

Scottish Mathematical Challenge (MC) Committee

Scottish Mathematical Council (SMC) Member Sept 2015- 2018 and trustee Nov 2016 - Sept 2018 

Education Scotland member of Curriculum Improvement Cycle Mathematics Collaboration Group and National Numeracy Network

UArctic Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity in Education

New Northern Pedagogies Group Sept 23 - present

Prizes and Awards

Senior Fellow, Advance HE (formerly HEA) 2021

First Scottish Academic journal to gain the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) seal 2021

Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Education.

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Education

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Current Research

Assessment in Higher Education Mathematics

Learning and Teaching Mathematics in Higher Education

How choice might be actualised within classrooms

Collaborations

UK Prosperity Funded ‘Multiply’ project with Aberdeen City Council

UK Prosperity Funded ‘Multiply’ project with Aberdeenshire Council

Dyscalculia Working Group with Aberdeen City Council

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Education.

Current supervisions

PhD: Transitions from Secondary to Post-Secondary Mathematics in Malta

EdD: Ethical Leadership

Previous supervisions

PhD: Teaching mathematics with Saudi Arabian English Language Learners

PhD: Vulnerable young people in Scotland: tacking food and health inequalities

Funding and Grants

New Northern Pedagogies Group (NNPG): Co-PI funded by Scottish Government Arctic Connections (£7795) with co-investigators from Universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Highlands & Islands, and Lapland.

Improving Children’s Mathematical Reasoning (ICMR): Principal Investigator funded by The Carnegie Trust Larger Collaborative Grant (£40000) with co-investigators from Universities of Glasgow and King’s College London alongside Education Scotland and Scottish Government.

Online Mathematics Assessment for Primary Teachers (MAPT): Principal Investigator funded by Education Scotland (£12000) with co-investigators from Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow alongside Education Scotland and HMIE.

Teaching

Programmes

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Current Teaching

Programme Director

Masters in Professional Education

Course Coordinator

ED6002 EdD Identifying and Articulating Issues in Professional Practice

ED506A(2025-26): Master Project/Dissertation

ED556A(2025-26): Master Project/Dissertation

PGDE(S) Mathematics Education

ED1008 Radical Reconstructions of Mathematics

Publications

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  • Disrupting marginality through educational research: A wayfinding conversation to reorient normative power relations within Indigenous contexts

    Heppner, R., Heppner, D., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 27-46
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  • Elders' Room

    Huysman, A., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 191-193
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
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  • How do teachers of mother tongue tuition in Austria perceive their role? Migration specific perspectives on teachers of migration languages within the Austrian public sector education system

    Hawlik, R., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 99-112
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  • Opportunity for Aajiiqatigiingniq with Qamanittuaq youth: an examination of the factors impacting identity development and wellness

    Snow, K., Tootoo, B., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 8-26
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Playful constraints: the dilemmas of early years classrooms in Bangladesh

    Cross, B., Islam, N., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 113-134
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  • Primary and early childhood education teachers education in Higher Education in Brazil: quality in balance between the ideal and the possible, favoured and disadvantaged teachers

    Rabelo, A., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 153-171
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  • Recognition and equal educational opportunities

    Kristiansen, A., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 82-98
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Wayfinding Conversations: rethinking education to disrupt marginality (Editorial as House Ceilidh)

    Markides, J., Cross, B., Chowdhury, S. A., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1-7
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  • Wayfinding Through Disrupting Controversies in the Religious Education Classroom: Teachers’ Views

    Lindström, N., Sullivan, K. P., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 68-81
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  • What does subject-integrated teaching on key global issues in the social studies subjects in Swedish upper primary school look like, and what does it imply for teachers and students?

    Olovsson, T. G., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 47-67
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  • Multiplicative reasoning task design in teacher education with student teachers in Scottish schools: valuing diversity, developing flexibility and making connections

    Martin, H.
    Teacher Development, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 317-339
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  • Challenges and opportunities in the education of students with immigrant background in Iceland

    Gunnthórsdóttir, H., Ragnarsdóttir, H., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 106-117
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  • Crisis, austerity, and new frameworks for teaching and learning: A pedagogy of hope for contemporary Greek education

    Chatzitheodorou, N., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 267-268
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  • Cross-school collaboration in the Finnish archipelago through Virtual Learning Environments

    Hilli, C., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Contributions to Journals: Features
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  • Defying distance, ameliorating access: school education for remote Australian students

    Downes, N., Roberts, P., Barbour, M., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
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  • Digitalization and digital transformation in schools: a challenge to educational theory?

    Siljebo, J., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 24-37
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  • Discursive gaps as spaces for Sami educational self-governance: A Bernsteinian analysis of classification and framing

    Koskinen, K. P., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 136-151
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  • Educational research: An unorthodox introduction

    Gray, C., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 269-271
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  • Finnish upper secondary school students' experiences with online courses

    Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 73-91
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  • "I had no idea what online lessons were": experiencing the lockdown as a student of a rural school

    Jafar, J., Alizade, H., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 196-213
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  • Itinerant encounters beyond the metropolis: expanding sedentary perspectives on teaching through pop-up community classrooms

    Hanser, C. H., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
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  • New-arrivals challenged by remote teaching: creating solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Busic, V., Hansson, N., Sullivan, K. P. H., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 214-228
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  • Online learning in a time of COVID disruption? The experiences of principals from New South Wales rural and disadvantaged primary schools

    Paredes, J., Chaseling, M., Boyd, W. E., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 175-195
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  • Redesigning distance courses to support social and teaching presence in adult and upper secondary education

    Hilli, C., Åkerfeldt, A., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 38-55
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  • Regional perspectives on remote teaching in Sweden

    Stark, K. ?., From, J., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 7-23
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  • Remote consultation between special educators and teachers in rural schools in Sweden

    Pettersson, G., Ström, K., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 56-72
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  • Remote teaching to ensure equal access to education in rural schools

    Billmayer, J., From, J., Lindberg, J. O., Pettersson, F., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1-6
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  • Researching and developing remote teaching in mother tongue tuition

    Pettersson, F., Hjelm, P., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
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  • Researching school practices with a complementary and symmetrical approach: the case of remote teaching in the rural north of Sweden

    Lindberg, J. O., From, J., Holmgren, T., Lundberg, P., Pettersson, G., Pettersson, F., Rudolfsson, L., Thomson, T., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
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  • Schooling in a time of disruption: the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of five New South Wales (Australia) secondary principals

    Chaseling, M., Paredes, J., Boyd, W. E., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 152-174
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  • Seeing Sense: Visual Literacy as a Tool for Libraries, Learning and Reader Development

    Johnston, D., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 272-273
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
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  • University studies in the adjacent tab: dimensions of students' agency and everyday life in the rural north of Finland

    Peltola, M., Suorsa, T., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 92-105
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  • Educational design research in collaboration with students: using digital tools to learn about reindeer herding within a vocational Sámi pedagogical context

    Keskitalo, P., Frangou, S., Chohan, I., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 58-77
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  • Examining opportunities for children to participate in formal early childhood music education

    Hietanen, L., Sepp, A., Ruismäki, H., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 21-38
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  • Participation, diversity, involvement and engagement in local and global contexts

    Cross, B., Shanks, R., Turunen, T., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1-4
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  • A Becoming, Humanist Child: An analysis of Learning and Care in the Swedish Curriculum for the Preschool (Lpfö 18)

    Billmayer, J., Pastorek Gripson, M., Bergnehr, D., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 42-55
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  • A meditation on what a post-human education might look like: Touching something beyond myself and my time

    Boyd, W. E., Horstmanshof, L., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 56-70
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  • Conducting Research with Pedagogues: A Case Study Conceptualizing the Playground as an Informal Learning Environment

    Blomgreen, C. B., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
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  • Education in a Posthuman Age

    Darling-McQuistan, K., Gray, D., Colucci-Gray, L., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1-5
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  • How to embed performative Theatre of the Oppressed in Higher Education systems

    Romano, A., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 26-41
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  • Posthumanism and Higher Education: Reimagining Pedagogy, Practice and Research

    McCune, V., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 89-90
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  • Posthumanism and Literacy Education: Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies

    Cross, B., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 91-94
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  • Sustainability for Whom? The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education

    Francis, C., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 95-96
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  • Teaching and learning with Canadian art students in North Iceland: towards the Posthuman

    Vaughan, K., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 6-25
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  • Towards a posthuman theory of educational relationality

    Mackie, C., Education in the North, Martin, H. (ed.)
    Education in the North, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 86-88
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  • Task Design: Multiplicative Reasoning

    Martin, H.
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • Multiplicative reasoning task design with student teachers in Scottish schools: valuing diversity, developing flexibility and making connections

    Martin, H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • A significant moment . . .?: University Television, Aberdeen

    Steele, M., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
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  • Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: International Perspectives

    Stelfox, K., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 151
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  • Embodied Knowledge Construction inWriting

    Frangou, S., Martin, H. (ed.), Education in the North
    Education in the North, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 89-105
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