[1][2] Alcock won the Selden Prize for her research in mathematics education[3] and the inaugural John Blake University Teaching Medal in 2021.
[2][3] Her PhD research on Categories, definitions and mathematics: Student reasoning about objects in analysis, was supervised by Adrian Simpson.
[2][7][8][9][3] Alcock's publications[1] include: Alcock is the 2012 winner of the Annie and John Selden Prize for research in undergraduate mathematics education, given by the Mathematical Association of America.
[3] She was named a National Teaching Fellow by the Higher Education Academy in 2015.
[5] Alcock was the inaugural winner of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications John Blake University Teaching Medal in 2021.