Mr Christopher Stone
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Job title: Lecturer
Email: c.p.stone@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: www.chris-stone.co.uk
Phone No: 01332 591335
Room: S212 Kedleston Road
I'm a media friendly expert
Recent publications
- The Use of Linear Fractional Transformations to Produce Building Plans. Network Nexus Journal, Birkhauser Basel, October 2008
School: Access and Further Education Centre
Subject Area: Mathematics
I deliver Level 3 and Level 2 mathematics for the Access Diploma and Foundation Joint Honours Degree Programme and sessional maths lecturing for the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law.
Teaching responsibilities
Devising and delivering Level 3 and Level 2 maths programmes.
Professional interests
I combine lecturing with architectural practice and am interested in links between mathematics and architectural design. This has led to running maths and architecture summer schools for Aimhigher Derbyshire and Derby City Council. I am also interested in the difference between the public perception of mathematics and mathematics in the real world. I devised the Check it Out Maths DVD which shows interviews I had with maths graduates at their place of work. The interviews are on the University website.
Research interests
- Mathematics and architecture; particularly the geometry of building plans.
- Perceptions and problems in the learning of mathematics.
- I am a member of the University's Built Environment Research Group
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- Member of Royal Institute of British Architects
- Member of the Nexus Association for Architecture and Mathematics
- Affiliate of the Institute for Learning
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Recent Conferences
- How to Talk Maths in Public a conference on the public engagement of mathematics held by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Invited delegate. Manchester. 2010
- The Use of Linear Fractional Transformations to Investigate Building Plans. Poster for the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry Conference. London 2008
Media experience
Launch of Check it Out Maths DVD
I was filmed for the television show Homes under the Hammer as the architect for the conversion of the Masons Arms pub to housing for Derby University students. The programme went out in July 2010.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Architecture, University of London (UCL)
- BA (Hons) , Open University
- M.Math , Open University
Postgraduate qualifications
- MSc Architecture, University of London (UCL)
- PGPLT, University of Derby
