John has, in some form, been in the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham since commencing studies as an undergraduate student in 2005.
Following completion of his EPSRC-funded PhD studies in 2013, John transferred to an EPSRC-funded postdoctoral research position, followed by a teaching fellowship, which was followed by a fixed-term lecturer position in Applied Mathematics.
Following these fixed-term positions, John was appointed to his current position as a flying-faculty lecturer within the School of Mathematics. He has now manged to temporarily leave the School of Mathematics, as a visiting lecturer at Jinan University, specifically, in his role at the Jinan University - University of Birmingham joint institute.
John’s research interests primarily concern well-posedness and qualitative behaviour of solutions to boundary value problems for partial differential equations. Ideally in situations close to, or being, ill-posed, so the results are somewhat counter-intuitive, and consequently, awkward to obtain.
John has given a variety of lecture courses at levels: F (Introductory Mathematics); C (Jinan Vectors, Geometry and Linear Algebra); I (Introduction to C++); and H and M (Chaos / Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems). He has supervised numerous dissertations at levels H and M.
John has been involved in delivery and administration of various widening participation schemes including: Access to Birmingham (A2B), Realising Opportunities (RO), and Nuffield placements.