Outputs (8)

Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli (2025)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. H., Watson, D. J. G., Skelhorn, J., Bell, D., Burdett, S., Codyre, A., Cooley, K., Davies, J. R., Dawson, J. J., D’Cruz, T., Gandhi, S. R., Jackson, H. J., Lowe, R., Ogilvie, E., Pond, A. L., Rees, H., Richardson, J., Sains, J., Short, F., Brignell, C., …Reader, T. (2025). Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09216-3

In a classic example of adaptation, harmless Batesian mimics gain protection from predators through resemblance to one or more unpalatable models. Mimics vary greatly in accuracy, and explaining the persistence of inaccurate mimics is an ongoing chal... Read More about Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli.

The mathematics pipeline in England: inclusion and the excellence stream (2024)
Journal Article
Brignell, C., Noyes, A., & Jacques, L. (2025). The mathematics pipeline in England: inclusion and the excellence stream. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 44(1), 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrae005

In England, there is currently heightened political interest in increasing mathematics attainment and maximizing post-16 participation. The latter is not merely an issue for upper secondary but requires a long-view of students’ mathematical progress.... Read More about The mathematics pipeline in England: inclusion and the excellence stream.

The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance (2023)
Journal Article
Shaker, A. J., Brignell, C., & Pugh, M. (2023). The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 56(2), 258-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2214562

A commonly-held belief is that many university students are ‘assessment-driven’; that is, students engage more with activities that are assessed compared with those that are not. ‘Incentivised engagement’ includes the practice of providing incentives... Read More about The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance.

The mathematics pipeline in England: Patterns, interventions and excellence (2023)
Report
Noyes, A., Brignell, C., Jacques, L., Powell, J., & Adkins, M. (2023). The mathematics pipeline in England: Patterns, interventions and excellence. Centre for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME)

Fostering purposeful engagement by building staff-student communities (2022)
Journal Article
Brignell, C., Brady, C., Mott, L., & Wicks, T. (2022). Fostering purposeful engagement by building staff-student communities. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 4(2), 52–62

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many universities moved to a blended delivery of online and in-person teaching. While necessary for public health, this significant disruption to education risked greater isolation and anxiety for students with... Read More about Fostering purposeful engagement by building staff-student communities.

Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus Genepool (2017)
Journal Article
Bennett, E. J., Brignell, C. J., Carion, P. W., Cook, S. M., Eastmond, P. J., Teakle, G. R., Hammond, J. P., Love, C., King, G. J., Roberts, J. A., & Wagstaff, C. (2017). Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus Genepool. Agronomy, 7(2), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy7020031

Plants are extremely versatile organisms that respond to the environment in which they find themselves, but a large part of their development is under genetic regulation. The links between developmental parameters and yield are poorly understood in o... Read More about Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus Genepool.

Covariance Weighted Procrustes Analysis (2016)
Book Chapter
Brignell, C. J., Dryden, I. L., & Browne, W. J. (2016). Covariance Weighted Procrustes Analysis. In P. K. Turaga, & A. Srivastava (Eds.), Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision (189-209). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22957-7_9

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. We revisit the popular Procrustes matching procedure of landmark shape analysis and consider the situation where the landmark coordinates have a completely general covariance matrix, extending pre... Read More about Covariance Weighted Procrustes Analysis.

Bayesian alignment of continuous molecular shapes using random fields (2008)
Journal Article
Czogiel, I., Dryden, I. L., & Brignell, C. J. Bayesian alignment of continuous molecular shapes using random fields. Manuscript submitted for publication

Statistical methodology is proposed for comparing
molecular shapes. In order to account for the continuous nature of molecules, classical shape analysis methods are combined with techniques used for predicting random fields in spatial statistics. Ap... Read More about Bayesian alignment of continuous molecular shapes using random fields.