Professor Jenny Field MA Bed (Hons) NTF SFHEA DfE QTS DfE Higher Threshold Standards for Teachers

Jenny Field is a Professor of Mathematics Education.  She works in the School of Education and ILD Centre for Thinking and Learning within the Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Jenny was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in 2017 by the Higher Education Academy for her "excellent reputation for inspirational approaches, which have improved teaching in the primary classroom, both locally and nationally, over the past three decades."

As a primary school teacher, she was one of the first government 'National Leading Mathematics Teachers', providing demonstration lessons for hundreds of teachers over a five-year period, as well as supporting the Numeracy Consultant for Bexley. Ofsted graded her teaching as 'outstanding'.

Jenny joined the University of Greenwich as senior lecturer in the Primary department in 2002. In 2005 she became Curriculum Lead for Primary Maths for the BA Hons (QTS) and Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Programmes, delivered to circa 400 students each year.

In 2012, she was promoted to Principal Lecturer for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and in 2014 she became Programme Lead for the PGCE Primary Maths Specialist Programme (QTS). Since then, she has been involved in various university wide initiatives, which extend her work beyond primary education, including co-writing the University Assessment Policy. After undertaking a 2-year training programme at Oxford University, she also gained a ‘Mindfulness in the Workplace’ qualification and went on to co-lead a pan faculty project, focussing on resilience, for all undergraduate students.

In 2018 she was promoted to Professor of Mathematics, in recognition of her national and international impact on Primary Mathematics. She is now recognised as a national expert in multiplicative reasoning, having designed a year-long CPD Programme 'Whole School Approaches to Teaching and Learning Times Tables', focussed on supporting schools after the introduction of the government’s statutory Multiplication Tables Check (MTC). Articles she has published around this subject reached almost 18,000 downloads and 25,000 hits by 2026, ranking her 9th for ‘most popular work’ accessible through the Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA).

In 2021, the two largest Professional Subject Associations for Mathematics (MA and ATM) invited her to co-write a ‘National Position Statement’ in response to the new statutory MTC Assessment, on their behalf. By 2025, she had delivered her year-long CPD Programme to circa 400 schools across 16 Local Authorities in England, including large Teaching Alliances, Mathematics Associations and five National Maths Hubs. More recently this has included an International School in Switzerland and 60 schools in South Africa. In 2025, the government agency, the NCETM, appointed her as an Expert Advisor for a national programme on Multiplicative Reasoning, and they have also cited her work on their website.

Jenny spent three years delivering this year-long CPD to almost 50 schools in the Barnsley Local Authority; they had reached out to her as almost all their schools were performing below average in the statutory MTC. The long-term impact of her programme has been extraordinary. In the 2025 MTC National Results, published by the government, Barnsley was ranked 2nd out of 156 Local Authorities in England, just 0.1 points behind Richmond upon Thames, one of the country’s most affluent areas.

‘This success is a testament to the hard work of schools across our borough and the impact of the ‘Whole School Approaches to Teaching and Learning Times Tables’ programme, designed and led by Professor Jenny Field from Greenwich University. A huge thank you to Jenny Field – her work with Barnsley schools has been a key contributing factor in the borough’s success.' - Barnsley Borough Social Media Release.

In 2021 she won the annual Faculty (ILD) ‘Impact Award’ and in 2023 she won the annual University ‘Impactful Knowledge Exchange Award’. She is currently developing a REF 2029 Impact Case Study and designing and leading a project on multiplicative reasoning with Khula Education, a charity with King Charles as their Patron, working with hard-to-reach communities in rural South Africa, reaching around 3000 children in extreme poverty.

Professional Associations include:

• Association of National Teaching Fellows
• Association of the International Federation of NTFs
• Professional Subject Associations for Mathematic

Professional Affiliations/Partnerships

• NCETM (Government Agency)
• Five National Maths Hubs (Kent & Medway, London Thames, London Southeast Plus, Sussex, South Yorkshire)
• Tykes Teaching Academy; Every Child Matters Academy Trust, United Learning, Pioneer Academy, HCAT
• Maths Fundi, South Africa
• International School Rheintal, Switzerland
• Khula Education, South Africa

Posts held previously:

1987-2002 Bedonwell Junior School, Teacher and Senior Leader

2002-2013  Senior Lecturer University of Greenwich

2013-2018  Principal Lecturer University of Greenwich

2018-current  Professor of Mathematics Education University of Greenwich