Our UK ACM SIGCSE journal club meets on the first Monday of the month online at 2pm UK time to discuss the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) with a focus on Computing and AI. We meet most months with the exception of UK bank holidays and the occasional month off. You can get involved by:
- Joining our next meeting online on Monday 5th October at 2pm BST (UTC+1)
- Inviting an author to present their paper by picking a free slot from our upcoming journal club meetings. You can even invite yourself to present a paper that you have authored or co-authored, in a short 5-10 minute lightning talk
- Catching-up on meetings you’ve missed. In order to allow free-flowing discussion, we DO NOT record the sessions, but selected meetings are turned into follow-up audio podcast interviews with authors. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Meetings in 2026
- Meeting № 61: Comedy in the Classroom with Hannah Robinson, DOI:10.59350/fferh-6kj29
- Meeting № 60: Reimagining Scholarship with Rose Gann, DOI:10.59350/es0k7-6m273
- Meeting № 59: Developing Computational Thinking through Dance with Fiona Fairlie, DOI:10.59350/8mzq8-d3r97
- Meeting № 58: Developing Abstraction Skills with Marjahan Begum and Julia Crossley, DOI:10.59350/836pd-hgv13
- Meeting № 57: Semantic Waves with Jane Waite and Paul Curzon, DOI:10.59350/82yy6-r9a02
Meetings in 2025
- Meeting № 56: The role of Generative AI in student-software collaboration, DOI:10.59350/c26zw-0tm88
- Meeting № 55: How consistent are humans when grading, DOI:10.59350/gt87p-h7295
- Meeting № 54: Knowledge, Skills and Attributes (KSA) with arm.com, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.3050
- Meeting № 53: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2966
- Meeting № 52: Why do we teach Computing at School? DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2928
- Meeting № 51: Team-based capstone projects, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2887
Meetings in 2024
- Meeting № 50: why LLM-enhanced Programming Error Messages are Ineffective in Practice, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2856
- Meeting № 49: The use of AI in undergraduate programming, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2780
- Meeting № 48: The broken software engineering pipeline, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2706
- Meeting № 47: Teaching team collaboration to engineers, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2666
- Meeting № 46: Using agile group projects to develop more employable graduates, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2633
- Meeting № 45: Developing professional competencies in software engineering, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2591
- Meeting № 44: Women’s elective choices in Computing, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2568
- Meeting № 43: Ten things about engineers should learn about learning, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2493
Meetings in 2023
- Meeting № 42: The ability of generative AI to pass exams, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2409
- Meeting № 41: The role of storytelling and drama in the lecture theatre, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2383
- Meeting № 40: Goals and self-efficacy of students, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2346
- Meeting № 39: Micro-credentials in Higher Education, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2324
- Meeting № 38: The most dangerous course in Computing, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2298
- Meeting № 37: How theory is used in feedback and assessment, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2261
- Meeting № 36: Diving into online interactive textbook publishing, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.2055
- Meeting № 35: The implications of programming getting easier, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1775
- Meeting № 34: Using AI to solve simple problems, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1743
- Meeting № 33: Code Comprehension, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1698
Meetings in 2022
- Meeting № 32: Collaborative Coding in the Cloud, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1655
- Meeting № 31: Computing in School, UK & Ireland, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1606
- Meeting № 30: Novice use of Java, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1590
- Meeting № 29: Graduate skills for Computer Science students, DOI:10.59350/sigcse.1572
- An archive of meetings № 1 to № 28 can be found at sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk
References
- David Bowie and Iggy Pop (1977) Nightclubbing in The Idiot, produced by David Bowie, for RCA Records