Dr Rehan Shah
BEng (UCL), MSc (Oxf), PhD (UCL), SFHEA, MIMA
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Mathematics and Engineering Education
CAISE School Lead for Inclusive Scholarship
School EDI Education Champion
QMUL Public Engagement Champion
QMUL Academic Representative for IMA and LMS
QMUL Academic Lead for Levelling Up: Maths for Engineering
Engineering 229, Mile End
| Feedback/ support hours: |
Tuesdays 2pm-3pm (in-person) or Fridays 2pm-3pm (online) or arrange by email |
| 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, university-industry partnerships, community-based learning, history of mathematics and physics) |
| Research Centre: | Research in Engineering and Materials Education |
| Affiliations: |
Advance HE - Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) - Member (MIMA), QMUL Academic Representative, Member of the IMA London Branch Committee, Research Committee and Early Career Mathematicians Committee, Reviewer for the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics London Mathematical Society (LMS) - Member and QMUL Academic Representative British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM) - Member and part of HE Mathematics Education Working Group Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - Member UK History for Diversity in Mathematics Network - Member and part of History for Diversity Repository Working Group Engineering Professors Council (EPC) - Institutional Member European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) - Institutional Member and Reviewer for the European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE) Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) - Institutional Member Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) - Institutional Member Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) - Institutional Member |
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 (diversification of STEM curricula, threshold concepts and concept inventories, university-industry and community partnerships, ethics and sustainability in mathematics, history of mathematics and physics). He specialises in education research methods including systematic literature reviews, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and survey design.
An accredited Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of Advance HE, he is also the School Lead for Inclusive Scholarship for the Centre for Academic Inclusion in Science and Engineering (CAISE) at QMUL, the School EDI Education Champion and a QMUL Public Engagement Champion. In addition to being awarded several internal and external funding grants, his work in these areas has also been nominated for the QMUL Education Excellence Award and QMSU Teacher of the Year and Sustainability Champion Awards.
He has also been the Research Seminars Coordinator for the Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education (CREME). In addition to this, he also serves as the current QMUL Academic Representative for both the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and London Mathematics Society (LMS). He is also the QMUL Academic Lead for the Levelling Up Maths for Engineering programme, in addition to being a member of the IMA's London Branch Committee, Research Committee and the Early Career Mathematicians Committee.
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 multiple UCL Teaching Excellence Awards. He 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.
An accredited Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of Advance HE, he is also the School Lead for Inclusive Scholarship for the Centre for Academic Inclusion in Science and Engineering (CAISE) at QMUL, the School EDI Education Champion and a QMUL Public Engagement Champion. In addition to being awarded several internal and external funding grants, his work in these areas has also been nominated for the QMUL Education Excellence Award and QMSU Teacher of the Year and Sustainability Champion Awards.
He has also been the Research Seminars Coordinator for the Centre for Research in Engineering and Materials Education (CREME). In addition to this, he also serves as the current QMUL Academic Representative for both the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and London Mathematics Society (LMS). He is also the QMUL Academic Lead for the Levelling Up Maths for Engineering programme, in addition to being a member of the IMA's London Branch Committee, Research Committee and the Early Career Mathematicians Committee.
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 multiple UCL Teaching Excellence Awards. He 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.