We’re especially proud of our STEM events and tours. We're excited to offer you the chance to meet Bobby Seagull of University Challenge fame and pick his brains about what opportunities there are for you at university and beyond.
To express an interest in attending LSE with your STEM students, please click on the Save My Spot Button above. The provisional date is Wednesday 24 February 2027.
The idea is for Bobby to share some of his incredible experience and insight so that students attending the workshop get more of an idea of what’s possible for them after school at university and beyond. There are so many opportunities but it’s not always easy to appreciate what you’re working towards, whilst you have homework to do and exams to pass.
This is an opportunity to look towards to horizon and make sense of all the hard work. Bobby has done such a remarkable range of jobs, he is the perfect person to highlight some of the options open to maths students. And it’s not only to become a maths teacher, although why not? We can’t all be Bobby Seagulls but we can take something useful from his experiences.
Here’s a short bio of Bobby, taken from his website (with his permission!):
I’m a school maths teacher and Cambridge University Doctorate student. Before moving into education, I was an investment banking trader at Lehman Brothers & Nomura, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant from PwC.
I’m an ambassador for the charity National Numeracy, a presenter for an Open University course on personal finance for young adults, a regular contributor to Radio Four’s Puzzle For Today and a columnist for the Financial Times.
I’m author of The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers (which reached #50 Amazon UK best sellers over Christmas 2018) and co-presenter of the podcast Maths Appeal. With my University Challenge friend, I co-wrote The Monkman & Seagull Quiz and co-presented a BBC TV series Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain. Outside of maths, I’m a long-suffering West ham fan!
We want this workshop to be fun so please submit any problems you want solving, maths related quiz questions or subjects covered.
Ask fiendish questions.
We want to make this affordable so we have priced the workshop at £95 per person. If you would like to expand on this opportunity, we are also able to offer a tour of the LSE Campus with a current student, a tour of The City of London, overnight accommodation and lunch or dinner in central London.
If you would like to pre-register for the workshop, please fill in this form: