Sue Sentance Explained
Susan Sentance is a British computer scientist, educator and director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Computing Education Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.[1] Her research investigates a wide range of issues computer science education, teacher education and the professional development of those teaching computing.[2] [3] In 2020 Sentance was awarded a Suffrage Science award for her work on computing education.[4]
Early life and education
Sentance studied artificial intelligence (AI) and information technology (IT) at the University of Edinburgh[4] where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1989[5] followed by a PhD in 1993 investigating intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) supervised by Helen Pain and Elisabet Engdahl.[6]
Career and research
In 2014 Sentance joined King's College London as a lecturer in computing education. Sentance served on the Royal Society computing education advisory group in 2016, with whom she investigated computer science education in the United Kingdom.[7] Sentance was involved with the evaluation of .NET Gadgeteer and the Micro Bit.[8] [9]
Sentance joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2018 as Chief Learning Officer where she oversees a gender disparity in computing program that seeks to improve the representation of girls in computer science classes. She has served on the board of Computing at School (CAS).[10] [11] Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Microsoft.[12] She collaborates with the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) and joined the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge in 2021.[1]
With Erik Barendsen and Carsten Schulte, she edited the book Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School.[13]
Awards and honours
Notes and References
- Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20211102111518/https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/ss2600. 2021-11-02. Dr Sue Sentance: Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre. 2021. cam.ac.uk. Anon. University of Cambridge.
- Sentance. Sue. Csizmadia. Andrew. Computing in the curriculum: Challenges and strategies from a teacher's perspective. Education and Information Technologies. 22. 2. 2016. 469–495. 1360-2357. 10.1007/s10639-016-9482-0. 345581. free.
- Book: Brown. Neil Christopher Charles. Kölling. Michael. Michael Kölling. Crick. Tom. Peyton Jones. Simon. Simon Peyton Jones. Humphreys. Simon. Sentance. Sue. Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education . Bringing computer science back into schools . 2013 . 269–274. 10.1145/2445196.2445277. 9781450318686. 13376671. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43394/Download/0043394-11092018070141.pdf.
- Web site: Maths and Computing Awardee 2020: Dr Sue Sentance. Katy . Pallister. 2020. suffragescience.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20210517143705/https://www.suffragescience.org/post/sue-sentance. 2021-05-17.
- Improved responses from an English language front end. University of Edinburgh. 1989. Edinburgh. English. Susan. Sentance. MSc. 606177034.
- PhD. University of Edinburgh. Recognising and responding to English article usage errors : an ICALL based approach. Susan. Sentance. 1993. 605993412. . ed.ac.uk. 1842/20176.
- Neil C. C. Brown. Sue Sentance. Tom Crick. Simon Humphreys. 2014. Restart: The Resurgence of Computer Science in UK Schools. 10.1145/2602484. ACM Transactions on Computing Education . 14. 2. 1–22. 207213634. 5622555331.
- Web site: Dr Sue Sentance . Royal Society. Anon. 2017. 2020-11-09. royalsociety.org. London. en-gb. https://web.archive.org/web/20171027224901/https://royalsociety.org/people/sue-sentance-12908/. 2017-10-27.
- Sentance. Sue. Waite. Jane. Hodges. Steve. MacLeod. Emily. Yeomans. Lucy. Creating Cool Stuff: Pupils' Experience of the BBC micro:bit. SIGCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 2017. 531–536. 10.1145/3017680.3017749. 18976762.
- Web site: Meet our team. Anon. 2018. 2020-11-09. computingatschool.org.uk.
- Web site: Dr Sue Sentance: Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science Education. Anon. 2014. 2020-11-09. kcl.ac.uk. King's College London.
- Web site: UK government grants awarded to Sue Sentance. UK Research and Innovation. Anon. 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20201111112349/https://gtr.ukri.org/person/E94BE67C-CE28-4CD4-A0D0-504E6E5ABF65. 2020-11-11. ukri.org. 2020-11-11. Swindon.
- Book: Computer science education: perspectives on teaching and learning in school. 9781350057104. 2018. Sue. Sentance. Erik. Barendsen. Carsten. Schulte. 1113298221. Bloomsbury Publishing. London.
- Web site: BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award. 2020-11-09. bera.ac.uk. en-GB. Anon. 2017.
- Web site: Suffrage Science Awards. 2020-11-09. suffragescience.org. en. Anon. 2020.
- Web site: Sue Sentance recognised with Suffrage Science award. 2020-11-09. raspberrypi.org. en-GB. Janina. Ander. 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201124192308/https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/sue-sentance-suffrage-science-award/. 2020-11-24.