Stephen is a National Teaching Fellow (NTF), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He is an Associate Professor with Manchester Metropolitan University and was concurrently an Associate Lecturer with the Open University (2008-2012). In 2000, he was instrumental in establishing a Schools Liaison forum in the North West of England. In 2010, Stephen volunteered as a STEM Ambassador, in 2012, he won an award as a Public Engagement Champion and in 2014, he became a Speaker for Schools. His research area is in Dynamical Systems and he is a world leader in the use of Maths packages in teaching, learning, assessment, research and employability having written Python, MATLAB, Maple and Mathematica books. Note that all books have accompanying working programs that can be downloaded from the web. Stephen is the co-inventor of binary oscillator computing. He runs national workshops with the Institute of Maths and its Applications: Python for A-Level Maths and Beyond. He also runs international workshops on: Python for Scientific Computing and TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence.Read more about this authorRead less about this author