Publications

This page gathers reports, media contributions and academic publications related to the Very Local Maths project. Click on the titles in bold to access to full publications.

Reports

Very Local Maths : A Festival Review

Media and Public engagement

Thompson, K., Black, L. (2025) in Interdisciplinary research – “absolute heaven”. Creative Manchester.

Papers and presentations

Mégrourèche, C. Black, L. O’Brien, K., Thompson, K. (2026). What does it mean to employ young people as co-researchers? Paper proposal submitted to the European Conference on Educational Research.

Mégrourèche, C. Black, L. O’Brien, K., Thompson, K. (2026). Community mathematics: reworking mathematical participation and inclusion beyond school. Paper proposal submitted to the European Conference on Educational Research.

Mégrourèche, C., Black, L., Herington, S., Vincente Colmenares, A., O’Brien, K., Thompson, K., Sant, E. (2025, June). Sketching community mathematics: A mapping of informal and situated practices, British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Summer Day Conference, Glasgow.

Mégrourèche, C. (2025, May). Transforming mathematics through an ungrounded locality: Imagining mathematical “abclusion”, 21st Gender in Education Association Conference, Manchester.

O’Brien, K., Mégrourèche, C. Black, L., Sant, E. (2025, January). What can a community mathematician do? Preparing to create mathematics outside the certainty of the classroom. Presentation at the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2025. Edinburgh.