Dr. Coreen J. Leacock currently serves as Project Coordinator for the RISE Caribbean research team. Dr. Leacock is known for her work in the areas of literacy and numeracy, including the teaching and learning of mathematics, student achievement, technology use in education, democratizing classrooms, and literacy across the curriculum. She has served in the field of education for over 35 years, with 15 years experience as a secondary mathematics and reading teacher, 15 years as a university lecturer in Mathematics Education and Research Methods in the School of Education at The University of West Indies Cave Hill.
Through her research, she seeks to identify best practices for teaching and learning mathematics in early childhood, primary and secondary classrooms in the region, with special interest in the use of technology to enhance classroom experiences. She shares her knowledge and expertise through research publications, conference presentations, workshops and seminars in schools and other forums across the Eastern Caribbean region. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Open Praxis, the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, her co-authored book titled Research Methods for Inexperienced Researchers: Guidelines for Investigating the Social World, as well as other venues.
Coreen received her Bachelor’s degree and Teaching Certificate from the Erdiston Teachers’ College in Barbados. Her Masters degree in Educational Research and her Ph.D. in Education with a focus on Educational Technology, Educational Change, and Mathematics Education are from the University of Cambridge in the UK. Dr. Coreen J. Leacock is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education and Research Methods in the School of Education at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, the Academic Coordinator for the Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education, and currently serves as Project Coordinator for the RISE Caribbean initiative.