Dr Stephen Lynch National Teaching Fellow and FIMA SFHEA

Personal web pages: https://drstephenlynch.github.io/webpages/

I am a National Teaching Fellow (NTF) with Advance HE (Higher Education). I won the award for my work in Widening Participation (WP), programming in the Maths curriculum, and my interdisciplinary research feeding into teaching.

https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/ntfs/dr-stephen-lynch

I am a Reader, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). I am Chair of the North-West Branch of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). I was concurrently an Associate Lecturer with the Open University (2008-2012). In 2010, I volunteered as a STEM Ambassador and in 2014 I became a Speaker for Schools. I am a Public Engagement Champion at MMU. My research area is in Dynamical Systems and I am a world leader in the use of Maths packages in teaching, learning, assessment, research and employability. I am the co-inventor of binary oscillator computing. I am the author of eight books. Note that all of my Springer books have accompanying working programs that can be downloaded from the web. According to Springer, chapters for my books have been downloaded over 700,000 times. Working with the IMA, I deliver one-day national workshops in the UK on “Python for A-Level Mathematics and Beyond.” I also deliver 5-day international workshops on “Python for Scientfic Computation and TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence.” 

Academic and professional qualifications

1985: BSc Single Honours in Pure Mathematics (UCW Aberystwyth)

1988: PhD Bifurcation of Limit Cycles of Lienard Systems (UCW Aberystwyth)

Other academic service (administration and management)

Deputy Head of Department of Computing & Mathematics (2019-2020)

Chair of the North West Branch of the Institute of Maths & its Applications (IMA)

Programme Leader Mathematics (2005-present)

Schools Liaison Coordinator (2000-present)

Languages

Spanish Castillian

External examiner roles

External Reviewer at University of Salford (2022)

External Adviser for the Maths Septennial Review at Plymouth University (2016)

External Examiner at Coventry University (2008-2013)

Expert reviewer

Mathematical Reviews

The Institute of Physics

The London Mathematical Society

Book reviewer for Springer and CRC Press

Consultancy and advisory roles

Python for A-Level Maths and Beyond

Python for Scientific Computing and TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence

Membership of professional associations

2022: National Teaching Fellow

2016: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2015: Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications

1990-2015: Member of the London Mathematical Society