Dr Jon Devlin
Teaching Fellow & Outreach Officer
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
I am a Teaching Fellow and Outreach Officer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. I started my post in February 2022 after having completed both my Honours and PhD degrees also at Strathclyde.
As a Teaching Fellow, I mainly teach first and second year mathematics classes. This includes mathematics service classes, GA classes for engineering mathematics, and the Mathematics STEM Summer School. I also supervise final year Honours and MSc Data Analytics projects.
As the Outreach Officer, I actively deliver workshops at primary and secondary schools, colleges and within the university. These focus on showcasing the real world applications of mathematics and statistics, with the aim of encouraging students to pursue studying a science subject at university. A link to the Department outreach webpage is given here: https://www.strath.ac.uk/science/mathematicsstatistics/departmentoutreachactivities/
Prize And Awards
- Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA)
- Recipient
- 1/11/2024
- Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award – Team Award
- Recipient
- 12/9/2024
- Strathclyde Medal – Team Award
- Recipient
- 5/9/2024
- Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award – Early Career Impact
- Recipient
- 30/8/2023
Publications
- Approximate Bayesian inference in a model for self-generated gradient collective cell movement
- Devlin Jon, Borowska Agnieszka, Husmeier Dirk, MacKenzie John
- Computational Statistics Vol 40, pp. 3399-3452 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-025-01606-5
- Optimal estimation of drift and diffusion coefficients in the presence of static localization error
- Devlin J, Husmeier D, MacKenzie J A
- Physical Review E Vol 100 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022134
Teaching
In the Academic Year 2025/26, I am teaching:
Lecturing
- MM203: Applicable Anaylsis 1
- MM145/MM147: Introduction to Geometry and Algebra
- MfE: Mathematics for Engineering (Early Spring)
- MM125: Mathematics Summer School
Tutorials
- MM145/MM147: Introduction to Geometry and Algebra
- MM203: Applicable Analysis 1
Other
I supervise Honours projects and support students on our Pre-Sessional Mathematics Courses.
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Previous teaching:
Lecturing
- MM103/MM123: Introduction to Geometry and Algebra
- MM111: Mathematics 1B
- MM125: Mathematics Summer School
- MM134 (MfE): Mathematics for Engineering (Early Spring)
- MM139: Pre-Sessional MSc Mathematics
- MM203: Applicable Analysis 1
Tutorials
- MM101: Introduction to Calculus
- MM111: Mathematics 1B
- MM112: Mathematics 2B
- MM113: Mathematics 1E
- MM114: Mathematics 2E
- MM115: Mathematics 1D
- MM116: Mathematics 1C
- MM203: Applicable Analysis 1
- MM215: Mathematics 2D
- MM217: Mathematics 2M
Other
I supervised Honours and Data Analytics projects and support students on our Pre-Sessional Mathematics Courses.
Professional Activities
- Mathematics Partnership Seed Grant Project, Session 1 - St Roch's Secondary School
- Organiser
- 30/1/2026
- Outreach Workshop – Jordanhill School
- Recipient
- 22/1/2026
- Outreach Workshop – Jordanhill School
- Recipient
- 19/1/2026
- Outreach Workshop – Eastbank Academy 2
- Recipient
- 7/1/2026
- Outreach Workshop – Eastbank Academy 1
- Recipient
- 7/1/2026
- Outreach Workshop – Parkhill Secondary School
- Recipient
- 24/11/2025
Projects
- Partnership Seed Grant Application
- Devlin, Jon (Principal Investigator) Clift, Lee (Co-investigator) Dombi, Erzsebet (Co-investigator) Goodfellow, Martin (Co-investigator) Humphrey, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Huq, Molly (Co-investigator) Murphy, Fiona (Co-investigator) Neves, Karla (Co-investigator) Sprick, Seb (Co-investigator) Wu, Yue (Co-investigator) Young, David (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
Contact
Dr
Jon
Devlin
Teaching Fellow & Outreach Officer
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: jon.devlin@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3804