Staff Profile

Background

Having successfully studied for an MMath degree followed by a PhD (Thesis title: The Neolithic of Europe: Mathematical Modelling and Radiocarbon Dates) in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Newcastle University I went on to train as a Secondary School Mathematics Teacher. I taught GCSE Mathematics and A-Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics in local secondary schools for 7 years and in March 2016 returned to the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University to take up the role of Lecturer and Transition Officer.

As Transition Officer my roles and responsibilities include:

• Stage 1 pastoral and academic support
• Monitoring Stage 1 attendance and academic performance
• Stage 1 induction (extended for 2020-21)
• Providing Stage 1 generic drop-ins 
• Tutorial delivery and assistance
• Teaching (although not in Stage 1 Maths programmes).

Other roles and responsibilities:

• Academic lead for Outreach (including Further Maths at Newcastle University)
• Stage 1 Degree Programme Director
• Deputy Senior Tutor
• Student-Staff Committee Member
• Mathematics and Statistics Learning, Teaching, Student Experience Committee
• Board of Studies Member
• Member of the Education Resilience Framework Group

Undergraduate Teaching

(2020/21)

• SFY0018: Foundation Mathematics

(2019/20)

• PHY1031: Introductory Calculus
• SFY0004: Foundation Mathematics

(2018/19)

• On Maternity Leave

(2017/18)

• CEG2705: Survey Mathematics. Module Leader (since 2016).
• SFY0004: Foundation Mathematics. Jointly taught with Dr John Appleby (since 2016).
• MAS1601: Introductory Calculus. Small Group Tutorial Leader (since 2016).
• PARTNERS Assessed Summer School. Academic Lead (since 2016).

• Articles

  • Shukurov A, Sarson G, Videiko M, Henderson K, Shiel R, Dolukhanov P, Pashkevich G. Productivity of Premodern Agriculture in the Cucuteni-Trypillia Area. Human Biology 2015, 87(3), 235-282.
  • Shukurov A, Sarson G, Videiko M, Henderson K, Shiel R, Dolukhanov P, Pashkevich G. Productivity of Premodern agriculture in the Cucuteni–Trypillia area. Human Biology 2015, 87(3), 235-238.
  • Davison K, Dolukhanov PM, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Zaitseva GI. Multiple sources of the European Neolithic: Mathematical modelling constrained by radiocarbon dates. Quaternary International 2009, 203(1-2), 10-18.
  • Davison K, Dolukhanov PM, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Zaitseva GI. A pan-European model of the Neolithic. Documenta Praehistorica 2007, 34, 139-154.
  • Davison K, Dolukhanov P, Sarson GR, Shukurov A. The role of waterways in the spread of the Neolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 2006, 33(5), 641-652.

• Book Chapter

  • Davison K, Dolukhanov PM, Sarson GR, Shukurov A, Zaitseva GI. Multiple sources of the European Neolithic: mathematical modelling constrained by radiocarbon dates. In: Dolukhanov, PM; Sarson, GR; Shukurov, A, ed. The East European Plain on the Eve of Agriculture. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009, pp.246.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Dolukhanov PM, Shukurov A, Davison K, Sarson G, Gerasimenko NP, Pashkevich GA, Vybornov AA, Kovalyukh NN, Skripkin VV, Zaitseva GI, Sapelko TV. The Spread of the Neolithic in the South East European Plain: Radiocarbon Chronology, Subsistence, and Environment. In: Radiocarbon: 5th International Symposium on Radiocarbon and Archaeology. 2009, Zurich, Switzerland: University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences.