Dr Steve Tobias
Adjunct Professor - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education
Email: stobias@une.edu.au
Biography
Steve Tobias is now an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education at UNE. He is a qualified secondary mathematics and science teacher with a decade of teaching experience prior to entering teacher education as a mathematics lecturer at La Trobe University in 1989. He has also taught at James Cook University in Townsville and moved to the University New England at the beginning of 2009.
His research interests have focused predominantly on teaching and learning mathematics at the school and university levels with a particular emphasis on the factors that affect learning. He is an active member of the SIMERR research centre located at UNE
Current Faculty and SOE roles:
- Faculty representative UNE SSP committee
- Chair of the SOE Board of Examiners
- Academic Staffing Coordinator
- SOE Executive member
- Member of Head of School's Research committee
- Member of the National executive of SiMERR
- Mathematics Education Team Leader