Dr Robert Leek MMath DPhil PGCHE

School of Mathematics
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Director of Years 3 & 4
PGTA Lead

Contact details

Email: r.leek@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Mathematics
Watson Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Robert Leek is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, where his roles include Director of Years 3 & 4 and PGTA Lead. His research interests revolve around topology, and in more recent years topological dynamics, as well as pedagogical research in computer-aided assessments.

Qualifications

PGCHE, University of Birmingham, 2020
DPhil in Mathematics, University of Oxford, 2015
MMath, University of Oxford, 2011

Teaching

Semester 1

LC Mathematical Workshops

Semester 2

LM Advanced Mathematical Finance

Research

My current research interests are primarily in topological dynamics, but I am also interested more broadly in topology, logic, and infinitary combinatorics, and computer-aided assessments.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Leek, R, Jones, D & Meyer, JC 2025, 'Reflections on 6 years of computer-aided assessment at the Jinan–Birmingham Joint Institute', Teaching Mathematics and its Applications. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hraf001

Good, C, Leek, R & Mitchell, J 2020, 'Equicontinuity, transitivity and sensitivity: the Auslander-Yorke dichotomy revisited', Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 2441-2474. https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2020121

Leek, R 2014, 'An internal characterisation of radiality', Topology and its Applications, vol. 177, pp. 10-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2014.08.002, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2014.08.002

Doctoral Thesis

Leek, R 2016, 'Radiality and spokes: a structural theory of convergence', ???thesis.qualification.phd???, University of Oxford . <https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:26e43290-2477-467d-b288-a4c0eb7ed719>

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Paseau, AC & Leek, R 2022, The Compactness Theorem. in Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

Working paper

Leek, R 2015 'Convergence properties and compactifications' arXiv, pp. 1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8701>

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