DoctorJeanette McLeod

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Finalist for the 2019 Science Communicators Association of New Zealand Excellence in Science Communication Award for our work with Maths Craft New Zealand. This award is celebrated biennially by the Science Communicators Association of New Zealand to recognise outstanding communication of science to a non-scientific audience.

Awarded the 2019 Cranwell Medal for Science Communication for our work with Maths Craft New Zealand. The Cranwell Medal is awarded to a practising scientist for excellence in communicating science to the general public in any area of science or technology. In 2017 this medal was renamed from the Science Communicator Medal to honour the botanist Dr Lucy Cranwell, a remarkable communicator of science – in a time when this was essentially unheard of.

Invited speaker in the Algebra & Discrete Mathematics special session at the AustMS Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group conference “WIMSIG Conference 2017: Celebration of Women in Australian Mathematical Sciences”, held at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, September 24-26, 2017.

SCANZ provides a community for science communicators to discuss and debate their craft with others, and they host science communication events throughout New Zealand.

A TV interview conducted at the Christchurch Maths Craft day, explaining the purpose of our event and the links between mathematics and craft.

UC mathematicians get crafty around New Zealand (Maths Craft NZ)

Maths & crafts: Using crochet and origami to teach mathematics.

Bringing maths to the masses through craft sounds like a mission, maths isn't known to be one of the favourite subjects but combine it with craft and it comes to life...Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson are touring the country this year with the intention of raising interest in maths through their quirky brand of maths outreach, where you can learn how to knit a mathematical knot, crochet a Möbius strip, fold an origami tetrahedron, or colour a Latin square, and experience mathematics in a whole new way, Luke talked with Dr Jeanette Mcleod.

Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

Invited speaker at New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate Conference, Nov 2013.