Dr. Mary Kingston

Dr Mary Kingston is an Assistant Professor in the School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies, lecturing in the area of mathematics education. She has responsibility for teaching across a range of modules in the school relating to mathematics education.

Mary received her Bachelor of Education degree from St. Patrick’s College and began her teaching career in a primary school in North Dublin. In 2019, she completed the Master of Education programme in Dublin City University, specialising in mathematics education. Her PhD, which she completed in 2024, focused on the topic of young children’s probabilistic thinking and this study was supervised by Dr Aisling Twohill (DCU), Dr Siún Nic Mhuirí (DCU) and Professor Aisling Leavy (MIC). She developed frameworks of growth points that describe the development of probabilistic thinking in relation to the constructs of probability of an event, probability comparison and sample space. Mary is a member of the Centre for the Advancement STEM Teaching and Learning (CASTeL).