Vacancy: SICSA SGA Director
We are pleased to announce that we are now recruiting for a new Director of the SICSA Graduate Academy. Applications are welcome from any suitable member of academic staff working at a SICSA member institution. The SICSA Graduate Academy (SGA) is an international graduate school in Informatics and Computer Science. All Informatics and Computer Science …
SICSA Heads to AiTLCE 2026
I’m looking forward to representing SICSA at the Advances in Teaching and Learning for Cyber Security Education (AiTLCE) conference in Dundee; this is an annual event organised by CSE Connect. Bringing together educators, researchers, and practitioners from across the UK, AiTLCE provides an excellent opportunity to share ideas, explore emerging approaches to cybersecurity education, and strengthen collaboration across …
Nominees for Supervisor of the Year
Scottish institutions deliver world-class researcher training and the SICSA Supervisor of the Year award recognises the outstanding guidance, mentorship and advising that underpins not only the success of individual PhD students but the health and advancement of our discipline as whole. PhD students from any Scottish university were invited to nominate their supervisor for recognition …
Recap: Scottish Argumentation Day 2026
Scottish Argumentation Day 2026 took place on the 29th of May at the University of Dundee. SAD 2026 was organised by Eimear Maguire, Kamila Górska, and Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, and we were delighted to welcome 22 participants representing 8 academic institutions across Scotland and beyond, and an industry visitor. Many thanks to everyone who made it …
Conference blog: Fuzzing Workshop @ NDSS 2026
Thanks to SICSA Cybersecurity theme, I had the opportunity to attend the Usenix Network and Distributed Systems Security conference (NDSS) and present my paper Hardfuzz: DataFlow-Guided On-Device Fuzzing for Microcontrollers, which was accepted to the International Fuzzing Workshop. The journey did not get off to a great start. My flight was repeatedly cancelled because of …
Pre-CHI 2026 Programme
Hello CHI community! This short note is an open invitation to any and all of you HCI researchers, practitioners, students, and teachers, to join us for our annual Pre-CHI mini-conference on April 1st, 2026. No fooling! This hybrid event will be at the Stirling Court Hotel, on the campus of the University of Stirling, from …
Getting Started in Computing Education Research Through ITiCSE Working Groups
Getting started in computer science education research can feel daunting. The field is broad, the community is large, and for those coming from a more technical background, it’s not always obvious where to begin – or how to build a network and a research identity in the area. For me, conference working groups – in …
SPLV ’26: Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School
Registration for SPLV 2026 at University of Glasgow is now open. The Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School is a collaborative effort between the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde and St Andrews. This summer school provides core and advanced classes that cover foundational as well as state of the art knowledge on the underlying principles needed to use or design new languages and verifying program correctness. The school is aimed at PhD students in programming languages, verification and related areas. Researchers and practitioners are welcome, as are strong undergraduate and masters students with the support of a supervisor.
SICSA Seminar – From Large to Small Building Affordable Language Models with Limited Resources
This talk aims to question the limitations and harms of Large Language Models, followed by a review of Small Language Models, covering prominent examples, their key techniques, and their capabilities. It will also give an overview of even smaller ‘baby’ language models. Finally, the talk will conclude by presenting some recent studies in which we …
Scoping CS Education Research in Scotland
SICSA’s Education Champions are conducting a short survey to map current engagement with Computing Science Education research across Scottish universities, with an aim to better understand who is involved, where this work is taking place, what areas are being explored and what support is needed. SICSA colleagues are invited to complete the survey below, which …