Pete Wright joined the University of Dundee in September 2022 as Senior Lecturer (Education & Society). He teaches on the PGDE Mathematics programme and various education programmes at PhD, Masters and undeergraduate level. He is currently module leader for the MEd Research Methods and BACP Action Research modules.

Pete is currently Ethics Lead for the Division of Education & Society and also Deputy Ethics Convenor for the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.

Pete was previously a Lecturer and then Associate Professor at UCL Institute of Education from 2011 to 2022. During that time, he was the programme leader for the Teach First Mathematics, PGCE Mathematics, and MA in Mathematics Education programmes, as well as Book Reviews Editor, then Assistant Editor, for the London Review of Education journal.

Prior to that, Pete taught mathematics for twelve years in secondary comprehensive schools in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Brighton, including a year as an advanced skills teacher and three years as head of mathematics. He also taught for three years in a rural school in Kenya with Voluntary Services Overseas.

Other posts in education include five years as a mathematics consultant, then software development manager, for the SMILE Mathematics curriculum development project, and two years as a local authority secondary mathematics consultant in Brighton and Hove.

Pete’s research interests include curriculum change, equity and social justice, mathematics education and participatory action research. He is currently Principal Investigator on the Promoting Socially Just Mathematics Teaching research project (funded by BERA Small Grant). He is the International Cooperation Partner for Project MathConnect (based in Austria). He was Principal Investigator on the following research projects, which are the focus for many of his publications:

• Teaching Maths for Social Justice (his doctoral studies at the University of Sussex)
• Visible Maths Pedagogy
• Primary Maths and Social Justice

Pete is currently Convenor of the Teaching Maths for Social Justice Network, Coordinator of BSRLM’s Critical Mathematics Education Working Group, and an Editorial Board member for The Curriculum Journal (BERA) and Research in Mathematics Education journal (BSRLM).

Pete was awarded the 2024 Bell Burkhardt Daro Shell Centre Award for Aspiring Educational Designers in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics by the ISDDE.

Wright, P. (2015): Teaching mathematics for social justice: translating theories into practice. Doctoral thesis published by University of Sussex (Sussex Research Online)