Dr Elizabeth Dombi
Senior Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
Positions:
Director of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Faculty of Science)
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Background:
I completed a PhD in Pure mathematics at the Unviersity of St Andrews. After a career break, I joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde in 2013 as a Teaching Associate. Since then, I have taken on a variety of roles within the department and Faculty, reflecting my commitment to inclusive teaching, equality, diversity and inclusion and academic leadership.
I am currently Director of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, overseeing the provision, development and delivery of both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. I also serve as Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Faculty of Science, where I work to ensure that the Faculty promotes an inclusive and supportive environment for all students and staff. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and acts as the London Mathematical Society's representative.
Previously, I served as second year co-ordinator from 2017 to 2023, chaired the Department's Equality and Diversity Committee from 2019, and led our successful application for a Bronze Award in 2024.
Beyond my departmental and Faculty responsibilities, I work closely with colleagues through networks such as the Senior Fellows at Strathclyde, the University's Leadership in Teaching and Learning network, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Collaborative Writing Groups. This work focuses on:
- Embedding inclusive learning and teaching practices
- Working with students as partners
- Breaking down barriers to participation in higher education
- Contextualising the curriculum
- Embedding Education for Sustainable Development
Collarboration with students and collegaues is central to my approach, ensuring that teaching, learning and assessment along with research are inclusive, innovative and impactful.
Publications
- Identifying Intersectional Barriers to Collaborations with External Organisations within the Faculty of Science
- Bell William Hamish, Burns Nathan Patrick, Dennany Lynn, Dombi Elizabeth, McLaughlin Annie, Spesyvtseva Susan
- (2025)
- A time-capsule for Students as Partners 2034 : What we left behind, what we've taken with us and what we hope will be
- Dombi Elizabeth, Iftikhar Fatima, Cox Glenda
- International Journal of Students as Partners Vol 9, pp. 321-336 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v9i1.6116
- Are we really working with students? : Working with students as partners to explore and enhance feedback practices with undergraduate students, a freestanding narrative review.
- Faulkner Suzanne, Dombi Elizabeth, Jones Lynne, McMichan Lauren, Melville Gillian Carol
- (2024)
- How did you come to engage in students-as-partners work?
- Reid Felix, Hunt Jem, Chow Marissa, Henry Tanya, Matthews Kelly, Faulkner Suzanne, Dombi Elizabeth, Jones Lynne, McMichan Lauren, Melville Gillian Carol
- International Journal of Students as Partners Vol 8, pp. 241-259 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v8i2.5872
- Changes in engineering students' surface and deep approaches to learning in first and second-year university courses
- Mio Cristina, Dombi Erzsebet
- Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Vol 2, pp. 115-137 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.56230/osotl.50
- Closed trail decompositions on grid graphs
- Dombi Erzsébet
- Pure Mathematics and Applications Vol 28, pp. 1-14 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1515/puma-2015-0040
Teaching
Teaching responsibilities in 2025/26:
First semester
MM117 Mathematics 1M
MM201 Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Second semester
MM303 Applicable Analysis 2
Project supervision
I supervised fourth year projects in the following areas:
- Cryptography
- Shortest Path Algorithms
- Game Theory
- Automata and Formal Language Theory
- Conformal Mappings
- Riemann zeta function
- Inverse semigroup theory
- Epidemiology
- Ramsey Theory
Research Interests
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
- Learning environments fostering deep approaches to learning
- Assessment and feedback practices enhancing student engagement and success
- Student as Partners in the feedback process
- Contextualising the curriculum
- Automated Theorem Proving using LEAN
Mahtematical research:
- inverse semigroups, automata and formal language theory
- combinatorial optimization
- word-representable graphs
Professional Activities
- SEEN: Reaching the Market
- Organiser
- 16/6/2026
- DataFest 2026
- Participant
- 28/5/2026
- Neuroinclusive approaches: Insights Across Disciplines and Sectors
- Organiser
- 22/5/2026
- Mathematics Outreach: String art, origami and statistics
- Contributor
- 18/5/2026
- How can feedback help develop student partnerships?
- Invited speaker
- 8/4/2026
- Mathematics Partnership Seed Grant Project, Session 3 – St Roch's Secondary School
- Recipient
- 31/3/2026
Projects
- Creative Knowledge Exchange: Engagement Between Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering and the Creative Arts
- Dombi, Erzsebet (Principal Investigator) Banas, Neil (Co-investigator) Davidson, Peter (Co-investigator) Devlin, Jon (Co-investigator) Kelly, Louise (Co-investigator) Kleczkowski, Adam (Co-investigator) McLeay, Alan (Co-investigator) Witte, Kimia (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2026
- Constraint Made Visible
- Witte, Kimia (Co-investigator) Dombi, Erzsebet (Co-investigator) Banas, Neil (Academic) Davidson, Peter (Academic) McLeay, Alan (Academic)
- Think Wild Pilot Fund (£5k) via Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences + Transmission gallery (£1k)
- 10-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2026
- 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) Kirkpatrick, Ryan (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
- Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University / R230557-204
- Dombi, Erzsebet (Co-investigator) Bell, William (Research Co-investigator) Dennany, Lynn (Research Co-investigator) Spesyvtseva, Susan (Research Co-investigator) Whoriskey, Suzy (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2026
Contact
Dr
Elizabeth
Dombi
Senior Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: e.dombi@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3804