Matthew Craven

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Dr Matthew Craven

Associate Head of School (UG Education)
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

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The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Matthew's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality EducationGoal 07: SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean EnergyGoal 08: SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic GrowthGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Matthew

Roles

  • Associate Head for Undergraduate Education (SECaM).
  • Lecturer in Applied Mathematics.
  • Awarded the University SSTAR Award for "Inspirational Teacher of the Year" (June 2021) and nominated a further six times. This includes "Programme Leader of the Year" and "The Big Thank You Award" in 2022.
  • Co-leads the Plymouth Optimisation Group and the Big Data research group .
  • Member of the University Senate (until June 2024).
  • Applied Mathematics seminar joint organiser - if you wish to give a seminar then please contact me.

Supervised Research Degrees

  • Dr T. Alotaibi: Portfolio Optimisation Using Genetic Algorithms and Copula Financial Models (Director of Studies), 2022
  • Dr M. Walter: Understanding Optimisation Processes with Biologically-Inspired Visualisations (2nd Supervisor), 2023
  • Dr F. Ben Salamah: Adaptive Awareness Raising and Cyber Security Training for Social Media Users (2nd Supervisor), 2023

Teaching

Undergraduate 2024-25:

  • MATH051 Mathematical Methods I (Module Leader)
  • COMP0001 Topics in Computer Science (Guest Lecturer)
  • MATH3709 Optimisation, Networks and Graphs (Module Leader)
  • MATH3628 Final Year Mathematics Projects (Supervisor)

Postgraduate 2024-25:

  • GS19 Introduction to R for research staff and PhD students - Doctoral College (Module Leader) 
  • PROJ518 MSc Dissertation and Research Skills (Supervisor)

External CPD Courses:

  • Big Data (April 2019)
  • Introduction to RStudio (January 2020)
  • Lunchtime Course on Inference (August 2021)
  • Algorithms and Algebra: A Journey Into Group-Theoretic Cryptology, Pakistan Virtual University (May 2022)

the majority in conjunction with the Environmental Futures and Big Data Impact Labat the University of Plymouth.
I also have many years of teaching experience in many different venues and levels, from foundation year to MSc levels and PhD workshops. I was awarded the University SSTAR Award for "Inspirational Teacher of the Year" (June 2021), and was nominated for the SSTAR Award "Programme Leader of the Year" and "The Big Thank You Award" (May 2022). I was also the Programme Manager for the SECaM foundation years from September 2015 to January 2023.
I have a proven track record of taking student research to publication, with articles in LNCS, Studies in Economics and Finance, and the Plymouth Student Scientist.

Contact Matthew

Room 111, 2 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 586329