Dr Steve Humble MBE, is a Reader in Global Development and acting Director of Research in ECLS. He carries out research in sub Saharan Africa and India and teaches Global Development at UG, PGT and PhD levels.
He is an expert around analysing data from large samples using advanced statistical techniques using both STATA and SPSS. His most recent book "Quantitative Analysis of Questionnaires: Techniques to Explore Structures and Relationships" published by Routledge. The book provides an ideal textbook for students looking to improve statistical interpretation of choice decisions.
Humble is currently the Co-Investigator on grants totalling £1 million being carried out in India. First, funded by the Rising Tide Foundation "Identifying Best Practice for Empowerment Through Entrepreneurial Freedom" and second funded by the British Academy a project that is researching employment skills and empowerment for young women from rural and marginalised communities in Delhi, India.
His present research also includes phonics in government schools in northern Nigeria, HIV stigma in Zimbabwe, Gender Based Violence (GBV) in South Africa and coping strategies around COVID 19 in the UK and Asia.
One of two REF 2021 Impact Case Studies submitted in Education (UoA23) featured Steve's work in Africa and India. The ICS "Improving Primary and Secondary Schooling for the Marginalised in East and West Africa and India" shows how research at Newcastle University has been instrumental in changing education policy and practice internationally and has enabled grassroots awareness and knowledge transfer amongst communities, philanthropists, governments and NGOs.
Experience
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2012–presentReader in Global Development, Newcastle University
Education
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2015Newcastle University, PhD
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2003Open University, Msc Mathematics
Publications
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2016How children living in poor areas of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, perceive their own Multiple Intelligences, Oxford Review of Education
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2015How to be Inventive when Teaching Primary Mathematics, Routledge
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2015In Search of Human Capital - Identifying Gifted Children in Poor Areas of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Edward Elgar
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2015Slum Super Stars, TEDx Newcastle
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2013Triangle Mysteries, The Mathematical Intelligencer
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2006Skimming and Skipping Stones, Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
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2002The Experimenter's A-Z of Mathematics, Routledge
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2001Rolling and spinning coin: a level gyroscopic processional motion, Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Honours
MBE for services to education 2016, Guinness World Record for 1001 children on a Maths Treasure Hunt Walk
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