2024-25 L&T Scholars announced
Congratulations to the colleagues below who have joined the 2024-25 SICSA L&T Scholar’s cohort! Imene Mitiche Glasgow Caledonian University Martins Olaleye University of the West of Scotland Joseph El Gemayel University of Strathclyde Shahid Mahmood Awan University of the West of Scotland Alistair Morrison University of Glasgow Verda Munir Robert Gordon University Marc Kydd Abertay …
Microbits on the Move
Microbits on the Move is a volunteering scheme in which Computer Science university students visit rural Scottish primary schools to teach children about computing using low-cost Micro:bit hardware.
Pedagogical Impacts of ChatGPT and Other LLMs
As we approach the anniversary of our workshop on the “Pedagogical Implications of ChatGPT and other LLMs,” hosted by RGU’s School of Computing and sponsored by SICSA Education, I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on a day of exciting discussions and perspectives. The event drew a full house of 40 attendees, and included …
Teams were “Up up and away” at Moray Game Jam
By UHI Moray 28 March 2024 Moray Game Jam returned for its seventh year in March with teams from across Scotland creating board and video games to the theme of Up Up and Away. The annual game jam which started in 2014 by UHI Moray aims brings together gaming enthusiasts from across the …
SICSA Research Scholar funding supported PhD student, Andrew, to attend the SoRAIM Winter School in France this month.
My name is Andrew Blair, and I am a first year PhD Student in Computing Science at the University ofGlasgow. My research seeks to explore how we can facilitate human-robot interaction throughdialogue in public spaces. More specifically, I seek to overcome the limitations of speech recognitionin noisy environments, by using …
With SICSA Research Scholar funding, PhD Student Bilyana, joined a Research Workshop collaboration on the theme of content in Berlin.
During the last days of January and the first week of February 2024, I had the absolute pleasure of starting off my year by participating in the annual research workshop organised by the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London Southbank University, the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre at Aarhus University and the …
SICSA PhD Conference 2024
Our 2024 SICSA PhD Conference will run from 9th to 11th of July this year at the University of Aberdeen. If you are a PhD student, please complete our Workshop Topics form to help us choose the most relevant workshops and key speakers for you. You can also join our organising committee. We look forward …
‘It has been invaluable in my academic journey’, With SICSA Research Scholar funding, Jiawei attended and presented at HICSS in Hawaii.
6 February 2024 I am a final year PhD student from School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. I was delighted to share and present my work on Alignment-based Conformance Checking over Probabilistic Events in 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) from the 2nd to 6th …