GEORGE GADANIDIS
PhD, Professor, Faculty of Education, Western University
Email: ggadanid@uwo.ca
I spend a lot of time in classrooms, collaborating with teachers to design cool ways of engaging young children with big math ideas. My work is often at the intersection of mathematics, technology and the arts.
PARTNERS
I am currently collaborating with Immaculate Namukasa (Western), Janette Hughes (Ontario Tech), Siri Krogh-Nordby (OsloMet), and Ricardo Scucuglia (UNESP, Brazil).
RECENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
- Carla Piedad Iñiguez Ayala (MA in progress)
- Shuang He (MA 2025)
- Lisa Floyd (PhD 2025)
- Li, Li (PhD 2025)
- Steve Floyd (PhD 2022)
- Erin Clements (PhD 2020)
- Rosa Cendros Araujo (PhD 2019)
- Maryam Koozehkanani (MA 2019)
RECENT AWARDS
- 2025 (co-investigator) Education 2050: Futures Literacy for a Polycrisis (SSHRC PDG grant, $200,000 — led by Janette Hughes (Ontario Tech University)
- 2022 (co-Lead) Leading AI Education (Western University Strategic Priority Fund, $250,000) — led by Mike Katchabaw (Computer Science), George Gadanidis (Education), Immaculate Namukasa (Education) & Jodie Williams (FNMIEAO)
- 2022 (PI) Computer programming in mathematics education (SSHRC Insight Grant, $98,000)
- 2021 (co-investigator) Improving Children’s Mathematics Learning through Computational Participation (SSHRC Insight Grant, $225,000) — led by Immaculate Namukasa (Western Education)
- 2017-2022 (co-PI) There’s an App for That (ORF Research Excellence Grant, $1,175,000) — led by Janette Hughes (Ontario Tech University)