Dr Rehan Shah
BEng (UCL), MSc (Oxf), PhD (UCL), FHEA, MIMA, MInstP

 
Dr Rehan Shah

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Mathematics and Engineering Education
School Lead for Inclusive Scholarship - Centre for Academic Inclusion in Science and Engineering
Research Seminars Coordinator - Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education
QMUL IMA Academic Representative and Research Integrity Champion

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Expertise: Applied mathematics (nonlinear dynamics, analytical mechanics and mathematical modelling); Mathematics and engineering education pedagogy (diversification of STEM curricula, threshold concepts, concept inventories, embedding ethics and sustainability, authentic learning, active and experiential learning approaches, university partnerships with industries, community-based learning, history of mathematics and physics)
Research Centre:
Affiliations: Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)
Member and QMUL Academic Representative of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP)
Member of the London Mathematical Society (LMS)
Member of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM)
Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
Associate Member of the UCL Centre for Engineering Education (CEE)
Academic Member and Co-Chair of the Ethics Ambassador Community of the Engineering Professors Council (EPC)

Institutional Member of:
European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)
Advance HE
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA)

Brief Biography

Dr. Shah is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Mathematics and Engineering Education at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) with research interests in applied mathematics (nonlinear dynamics, analytical mechanics and mathematical modelling) as well as mathematics and engineering education pedagogy.

He is also the School Lead for Inclusive Scholarship for the Centre for Academic Inclusion in Science and Engineering (CAISE) at QMUL, the Research Seminars Coordinator, Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education (CREME)and Queen Mary Research Integrity Champion.

In addition to this, he is also an Associate Member of the UCL Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) and serves as the Co-Chair of the Ethics Ambassador Community for the Engineering Professors Council (EPC). He also serves as the Institute of Mathematics (IMA) Academic Representative for QMUL.

He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics (Nonlinear Dynamics) at University College London (UCL), where he also taught on a wide range of courses in mathematics, physics and engineering for which he received several teaching excellence awards. In addition to this, he is an accredited Fellow (FHEA) of the UK Higher Education Academy and has also been a Guest Mathematics Teacher at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Prior to this, he taught GCSE and A-Level Mathematics as a full-time secondary school teacher at several independent schools across London. He also has an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing from the University of Oxford (St. Anne's College) and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering with Business Finance from UCL.