I am actively involved with making mathematics accessible to both underprivileged and underrepresented groups.
Recent outreach events
In 2026, I gave a public talk at the Cambridge Alumni Festival about How to Bake a Black Hole (thanks to photographer Chris Loades)
In 2025, I co-organised a `Maths Explorers Morning' in collaboration with staff from MMP.
In 2024 I co-organised a 'Snapshots of Research in the CMS' with Amelia Drew. I also gave a webinar, called 'Baking a Black Hole' for the She Talks Science series run by Murray Edwards College.
Recent outreach talks
- December 2025: a talk about studying maths at Cambridge for the African Olympiad Academy in Kigali, Rwanda.
- June 2025: a talk about studying maths at university for the Girls Enjoy Maths Summer School, run by the Cambridge Maths School.
- February 2025: a talk about How to track your cat: the maths behind GPS, for the Murray Edwards Maths Society.
- April 2024: a talk about the Monster Function of Weierstrass, given to high-school students at an Open Day in Cambridge.
African Institutes for Mathematical Sciences
For the past 5 academic years I have taught a 3-week M.Sc. course on 'Partial Differential Equations' to students completing Masters degrees in mathematics & data science at AIMS Rwanda. Additionally from August 2014 to July 2015 I was a tutor at AIMS South Africa.
The Edinburgh Maths Circle
During my graduate studies in Edinburgh, I started the Edinburgh Maths Circle. These are popular and highly successful events, with on average 200 children (aged 5-15) and parents attending each Maths Circle. I helped organise 13 Maths Circle events and 3 teaching training events and I was awarded the University of Edinburgh's Sir William Darling Memorial Prize for my efforts with the Edinburgh Maths Circle.
Bright Club
Bright Club is a concept that aims to promote public engagement by scientists. I have given three stand-up comedy performances through Bright Club. The first of these was about Black Holes (and my poor culinary skills) at the 43rd Edinburgh Bright Club in 2017. You can find the video below:
I also gave a stand-up comedy routine about the electroweak theory of particle physics at the Glasgow Bright Club in 2019 and at the 49th Edinburgh Bright Club. The video from Edinburgh is below:
The Emmy Noether Society
In 2012 I co-founded with Anna Seigal the Emmy Noether Society for female and non-binary mathematicians at Cambridge University. I was very proud to be in Cambridge to celebrate the society's 10 year anniversary in March 2022 (picture below).
