Dr Elizabeth Dombi
Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
I am Director of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 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. Some of the Strathclyde-led events I was involved in are:
- LMS Women in Mathematics Day, June 2021
- Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics, January 2023
I am also a member of the Senior Fellows at Strathclye and the University's Learderhip in Teaching and Learning networks, as well as the SoTL Collarborative Wriring Groups. My pedagogical interests include the following areas:
- exploring deep and surface approahces to learning
- engaging students as partners in relation to feedback
- contextulalising the curriculum
- embedding Education for Sustainable Development
My mathematical research interests include:
- inverse semigroup theory
- formal language theory in algebra
- combinatorial optimisation problems related to edge covering of graphs with restricted length Eulerian circuits
- word-representable graphs
Publications
- 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 (2024)
- Are we really working with students? Working with students as partners to explore and enhance feedback practice with undergraduate students, a freestanding narrative review.
- Faulkner Suzanne, Dombi Elizabeth, Jones Lynne, McMichan Lauren, Melville Gillian Carol
- (2024)
- 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
- Automatic semigroup acts
- Dombi Erzsébet R, Hartmann Miklós
- Journal of Algebra Vol 435, pp. 286–307 (2015)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2015.03.032
- A note on automatic semigroups
- Dombi Erzsebet
- Semigroup Forum Vol 86, pp. 555-570 (2013)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00233-012-9446-7
Teaching
Teaching responsibilities in 2023/24:
First semester
MM117 Mathematics 1M
Second semester
MM303 Applicable Analysis 2
MM117 Mathematics 1M
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
- Are we really working with students as partners when we develop feedback literacies with our undergraduate students and staff?
- Speaker
- 9/9/2024
- How do we identify and break down barriers to effective and genuine partnership working in Higher Education?
- Contributor
- 24/7/2024
- Are we working with students as partners?
- Speaker
- 6/6/2024
- Mathematics & Statistics Teaching Away Day
- Participant
- 22/5/2024
- London Mathematical Society (External organisation)
- Member
- 17/11/2023
- Enhancing Skills in Educational Research in the Mathematical Sciences Workshop
- Participant
- 15/6/2023
Contact
Dr
Elizabeth
Dombi
Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: e.dombi@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3816