Sonya joined Tutor Trust in September 2024. She wasn’t always a maths nerd! In fact, she got entirely bored with the subject in secondary school, and only took it to A-Level to please her father. She went on to do a B.A. degree in English Literature and Theatre at University of Leeds, and to study Theology to PhD and post-doc level at the University of Manchester and the University of Oxford. With this background, she often gets asked: why Maths?! Answer: she rediscovered her passion for the subject through helping her own children during Lockdown.
She is grateful to now have the opportunity through her work with the Tutor Trust to help other children and young adults, and loves finding new ways to understand and explain mathematical concepts so as to help her tutees gain the skills and qualifications that will help them achieve success in whatever they choose to do.