Dr Charis Voutsina DEA, PhD
Lecturer in Mathematics Education

Dr Charis Voutsina is Lecturer in Mathematics Education within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.
Charis Voutsina has taught in primary schools and early years settings in Greece and England. She studied for a Postgraduate degree (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) in Systems of Learning and Systems of Evaluation at the University of Aix-Marseille I in France and for a PhD in Mathematics Education at the University of Southampton. In 2004 she was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship which allowed her to further extend her PhD research on young children’s problem solving approaches in mathematics and the processes of procedural and conceptual change that underpin the development of children’s problem solving strategies. Charis is a doctorate supervisor and teaches on masters and postgraduate initial teacher training programmes. She is a member of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM) and the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI).
Charis Voutsina is a member of the Editorial Board for the academic journal Research in Mathematics Education (RME).
Funded research projects have included work funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and The Leverhulme Trust.