Professor Camilla Gilmore is a developmental psychologist. She is interested in understanding how we think about mathematical ideas and what this means for mathematics education.

She completed her doctorate in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford before working as Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University. She then spent five years as a Research Fellow in the Learning Sciences Research Institute at The University of Nottingham before joining Loughborough in 2011.

Before being promoted to Professor in 2020, Camilla held a Research Fellowship from the British Academy and a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship from the Royal Society. She is now Co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Cognition – funded by Research England – and leads the ESRC-funded Centre for Early Mathematics Learning.

A Chartered Psychologist, she has received awards from the Experimental Psychology Society, the British Psychological Society and the British Society for Research in Learning Mathematics.

Her research explores how we acquire mathematics skills – with a particular focus on early years development. Her aim is to identify cognitive and environmental factors that influence mathematics learning and to understand why some children have difficulties.