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Richard is a senior lecturer and qualified teacher. His career has spanned primary school teaching, school leadership and Initial Teacher Education. He currently teaches undergraduate initial teacher education and postgraduate courses the University of Brighton.
He is also seconded part-time the University of Brighton Multiacademy Trust as professional development, research and partnerships coordinator and in this role he is responsible for designing and evaluating programmes of teacher professional development.
Richard is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Chartered College of Teaching, the British Society for Research into Learning of Mathematics, and the Association of Teachers of Mathematics.
Richard is passionate about making mathematics accessible and stimulating, and enabling practitioners to foster curiosity and richly connected understanding for the children they teach. Drawing on 10 years of experience as a primary school teacher and leader, his approach to teaching is rooted in developing practitioners’ subject knowledge as well as their personal beliefs about learning through collaborative activity, coaching and critical engagement with research literature.
Richard’s research interests include teacher professional development, particularly in a cross-school context and the development of teachers' expertise which best enables them to support children's mathematical fluency and flexibility.
Richard’s research outputs include:
Master, MA Education (Dist), University of Brighton
1 Sept 2015 → 1 Oct 2018
Award Date: 1 Oct 2018
Master, Mathematics Specialist Teaching (MaST), University of Brighton
1 Sept 2015 → 1 Jul 2016
Award Date: 1 Jul 2017
Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Warwick
1 Sept 2006 → 1 Jul 2007
Award Date: 1 Jul 2007
Bachelor, BSc (Hons) Biomedical Chemistry, University of Warwick
1 Sept 2003 → 1 Jul 2006
Award Date: 1 Jul 2006
School Governor
1 Jan 2019 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Harvey-Swanston, R. (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting position › Visiting an external academic institution
Harvey-Swanston, R. (Member)
Activity: External boards and professional/academic bodies › Personal board membership of professional/academic bodies
Harvey-Swanston, R. (Consultant) & Hope, L. (Consultant)
Activity: Consultancy