Julie Alderton is an associate professor in mathematics education at the University of Cambridge. She began her career as a primary teacher in London schools before moving into higher education where she specialises in mathematics education. She teaches and supervises students across initial teacher education, master’s and doctoral programmes. Her research interests focus on mathematics education within social and political contexts and systems, in particular educators’ and students’ subjectivities and pedagogical practices, power relations and issues of inclusion and inequalities.