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SUMMARY:SICSA Education Event: "Evaluating the Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students in the UK and Ireland - an invitation to collaborate".
DESCRIPTION:SICSA Education is delighted to be supporting the launch of the University of Edinburgh Computer Science Education (CSE) group. There will also be a keynote talk on “Evaluating the Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students in the UK and Ireland – an invitation to collaborate”.  \nBoth the keynote and the event as a whole is open to anyone in Scotland and beyond with an interest in the intersection of education and computer science. \nFor more information and registration details\, please see https://www.tickettailor.com/events/computerscienceeducation/1012242.  If you choose to attend remotely a link to be sent upon registration \nKeynote Session Abstract:\nDuring this presentation\, we will introduce our plans for our forthcoming collaborative project – which we are running as a RIPPA (Research in Practice Project Activity)\, a year-long multi-institute research project\, part of the UKICER (UK and Ireland Computing Education Research) programme. As well as sharing our plans with the community\, we are looking to engage those interested in collaborating as part of this project from institutions across the country. \nSense of Belonging\, or belongingness\, is an individual’s personal conviction regarding their acceptance as a valued member within an academic community. The significance of student belongingness lies in its correlation with various outcomes including motivation\, persistence\, mental health and well-being. However\, the experience of belongingness is subject to variations influenced by factors such as race/ethnicity and gender. Previous research has demonstrated notable statistical differences in the belongingness experienced by computing students who identify as women or as part of other minoritized groups. \nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic\, we observed a decline in belongingness among male and female students who do not identify as minoritised\, while an increase was observed among women who identify as minoritised. Although students have returned to campus\, current surveys reveal that the belongingness levels among men and women who do not identify as minoritised have not fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Additionally\, a statistically significant decrease in belongingness is observed among men who identify as minoritised. This emphasizes the necessity for continued efforts to restore student belongingness to its pre-pandemic state and shed light on the positive impact that moving to a virtual environment appeared to have on sense of belonging of minoritised women. \nWe have been studying the sense of belonging of undergraduate students in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin since 2017\, and at the University of Edinburgh since 2021. We have recently extended this work across Ireland and Northern Ireland\, and would now like to expand further across Scotland and into Wales and England. We invite interested parties to participate in our RIPPA (Research in Practice Project Activity)\, a year long project starting in Autumn 2023.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/sicsa-education-event-evaluating-the-sense-of-belonging-of-undergraduate-computing-students-in-the-uk-and-ireland-an-invitation-to-collaborate/
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DESCRIPTION:The SICSA PhD Conference will take place on 11th & 12th September 2023 at the Stirling Court Hotel\, University of Stirling \n\n\nThis year\, the focus of the SICSA Conference will be on building research programmes to address interdisciplinary challenges. Increasingly\, research focus and funding is led by societal challenges that are of international concern. \n\n\n\n\nAlthough computing science research will be fundamental to addressing these challenges\, they will also need to collaborate across disciplines and a wide range of stakeholders.  The aim of this conference is to expose research students to the opportunities of interdisciplinary research as well as the skills and tools they will need to work effectively in this context. \nThe conference will include keynotes from high-profile speakers on the challenge-led research landscape\, as well as workshops on research programme road mapping and interdisciplinary collaboration. Students will have opportunities to practice these skills in small teams drawn from the diverse fields of our discipline\, in order to develop their own collective research visions resulting in a Pitching Session on day two of the conference with prizes to be won! \nIf you are a PhD student studying Informatics and Computing Science or an Early Career Researcher within a SICSA institution then you are eligible to register for the event. \nFor more information on the Conference and details of registration please visit the Conference Website
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