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Rehana Bari

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Lecturer and Module convenor for Core Mathematics and Quantitative Methods.  

Academic tutor for International Foundation Programme students

Areas of interest

Interests lie in the following areas of pure Mathematics and Statistics:

Bifurcation Theory, Non-linear Analysis, Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis,

Data Analysis

Teaching

Mathematics for Finance, Economics and Business (MFEB) Module

Background

I joined the University of Reading in 2015 as a Mathematics and Statistics Tutor (part-time) in the Mathematics Support Centre before moving to the Global Academy in 2021 as a Lecturer in Foundation Mathematics.

Before joining at Reading University, I taught undergraduate Mathematics modules at various universities in the UK such as Oxford Brookes University, Brunel University London, and Middlesex University London. I also have several years of experience in teaching A-level Mathematics to international students in the UK.

After completing MSc in Pure Maths from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where I am originally from. I started my career as lecturer there in 1991 and became a professor of Mathematics in 2006. I obtained a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh in 1996.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Mathematics
  • MSc in Mathematics
  • BSc in Mathematics

Professional bodies/affiliations

Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK 2019

Selected publications

Bari, R., Appleby, JF. (2024 ). A case study in the Transformative journey of assessment in Foundation Maths from 2019 to 2023. InForm (23). https://web.archive.org/web/20240618015945/https://static.reading.ac.uk/content/P DFs/files/Inform/InForm-Issue23.pdf

 Floyd, A., Baxter, J., Morales, A. & Bari, R. (2023). Leading online learning during a pandemic and beyond: challenges and opportunities for school leaders in England. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, ISSN 1741-1440. https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/112619/

Grasso, S., Rondoni, A., Bari, R., Smith, R. & Mansilla, N. (2022). Effect of information on consumers’ sensory evaluation of beef, plant-based and hybrid beef burgers. Food and Quality Preference (96). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104417

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations

Exploring Factors that Impact Students Attainment’. InForm Conference, King’s Foundations, King’s College London, June 2025

A case study in the Transformative journey of Assessment in Foundation Maths from 2019 to 2023. InForm Conference, University of Leeds, June 2024

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