We are delighted to announce Dr Matthew Barr, University of Glasgow is joining us as the new Director of Education. Dr Barr (Matt) commenced in post this week taking over from Dr Mark Zarb, Robert Gordon University who stepped down following 2 years in the role. Matt is well known to SICSA due to his … Read more
The SICSA PhD Conference will take place in June 2022 at Glasgow Caledonian University and remotely online. As we have in previous years, we are calling for PhD students who wish to join the PhD student organising committee. Being a part of this committee can be immensely rewarding and you will have the opportunity to … Read more
SICSA Data Science Research Theme…. recruiting a new theme co-leader Applications are invited for any suitable member of academic staff within a SICSA Institution to co-lead the SICSA Data Science Research Theme. The role of the SICSA Theme Leaders is to coordinate activities within each of the defined SICSA themes and further develop coherent communities in these … Read more
SICSA is now recruiting a new Director of Education SICSA Education has a focus on enhancing collaboration across the core activities of Undergraduate and Postgraduate education provision in Scotland. The group represents common interests to government; employers; professional and practitioner organisations; and the wider education sectors. These include resourcing for University Computing programmes, secondary school … Read more
We invite once again participation to the Coffee Break @ RIS, an on- going opportunity to participate in short, informal online conversations with researchers from across disciplines and geographical locations within Scotland. We are joined this month by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, the UK’s largest facilitator of funding, training and support for … Read more
We are pleased to confirm that Dr Jacques Ophoff, University of Abertay will be taking over as the SICSA Cyber Security Research Theme Co-Leader as Dr Deepayan Bhowmik is stepping down from the role. Dr Ophoff will work alongside Professor Karen Renaud and continue to steer the Cyber Security Research Theme forward. A huge thank … Read more
Visit our Conference web-site: https://sicsaconf.org/ 16.00 – 16.30, Plenary Session: Keeping Mentally Healthy Doing a PhD can be lonely at times, but COVID has intensified the isolation and uncertainty experienced by PhD students. The SICSA Universities provide support through counselling, mentoring and other mental health services. But, at the moment these services are in heavy … Read more
We are delighted to let you know that we have appointed our new SICSA Graduate Academy (SGA) Director. Dr Andrei Perovski, Robert Gordon University commenced the role as SGA Director of 1 August 2021 taking over from Dr Susmit Sarkar. Andrei is a Reader in Computation Systems and holds the role of Research Student Coordinator … Read more
We are running a New Lecturers Event as part of SICSA Conference 2021. The Event itself (13th September, 4pm, online) will consist of a panel aiming to answer FAQs from new staff, as well as a session inviting all new lecturers introduce themselves to the wider community (3-5 minutes), and then end in an informal … Read more
Registration is now open for the SICSA Conference 2021! The event will be taking place virtually on 13th & 14th September (notionally based at the University of Dundee) using the online platform Ohyay. The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Conference has been an annual event since SICSA began in 2008. This year the … Read more