Research group or individual?

This page links to Computer Science Education research groups only. Personal pages of members can be found at github.com/uk-sigcse/members/blob/main/everyone.md.

Some of the research groups below are well-established, others are new. They all:

  • Accept PhD students
  • Have a dedicated research group web page

If you want to add:



The University of Cambridge: Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre

  • Established 2022, Computing based
  • The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre is a joint initiative between the University of Cambridge and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The primary aim of the Centre is to investigate how to engage all young people in computing, computer science, and associated subjects. Our focus is on collaborative work with schools and educators to ensure that research can readily inform practice.
  • Contact Sue Sentance

The University of Central Lancashire: Research Centre for Digital Life

  • We work across the University with colleagues who are focussed on finding answers to the big questions of how to design, create and use digital technologies for the benefit of people.
  • Our goal is to use research as a way to enhance people’s lives, and to do this we work across four strands: Digital Governance and Security Digital Health and Wellbeing Digital Innovation and Creativity Digital Learning and Education
  • Contact Janet Read

University College Dublin: Computing Education Research Group cerg.ucd.ie

  • The Computing Education Research Group at UCD. CERG is pronounced /sɛɹʤ/ (like “surge”).
  • Contact Brett Becker

Durham University Pedagogical Innovations in Computer Science (PICS)

  • Pedagogical Innovations in Computer Sience
  • Contact group members

Edinburgh Napier University: Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)

  • Established 2023, CHER grew out of ENU’s previous Centre for Computing Education Research (est. 2014).
  • Current CS/ STEM areas of interest: curriculum; transitions from school/ college; graduate employability; student and graduate identity; access to placement and placement outcomes; gender imbalance; learning management systems; interactive learning environments; work-based learning (including graduate level apprenticeships and executive education).
  • Contact: Sally Smith

The University of Glasgow: Centre for Computing Science Education (CCSE)

  • Established 2017, Computing and Psychology
  • Current areas of interest: Curriculum design, teacher CPD, Early developmental factors for CT, Spatial skills, Degree-level apprenticeships, CS for all, Evolving CS education as CS understanding becomes a societal imperative
  • Contact: Quintin Cutts

The University of Hull: Pedagogy and Education group

  • Established 2012
  • Investigating ways to apply Computer Science to improve education and computer science education.
  • Contact Neil Gordon

King’s College London: Computing Education Research Centre (CERC)

  • Established 2018, Interdisciplinary
  • Current areas of interest: Programming & Robotics; Digital Equity; Data & Education
  • Contact: Michael Kolling

Newcastle University: Educational Practice in Computing (EPIC)

  • Established 2015, Computing-based
  • Current areas of interest: Assessment and feedback, curriculum design, equality and diversity, student experience, teacher CPD, working with schools.
  • Contact: Marie Devlin

Northumbria University: Digital Learning Laboratory (NUDLL)

  • Established 2018, Computing-based
  • Current areas of interest: Current areas of interest: Game based learning, Digital Making and Tinkering, Digital and Information Literacy and Fluency, and Computer Science and wider STEM Education, with a particular emphasis on widening participation, equality, diversity and inclusion, employability and graduate outcomes, retention and professional practice and its teaching. We are also closely linked to NUSTEM which is working with young people from primary to sixth form.
  • Contact: Becky Strachan

The Open University: Technology Education Research Group (TERG)

  • The group is hosted in the School of Computing and Communications, at the Open University (UK). Members of the group are interested in the use of technology for learning, the teaching and learning of computing, communications and technology. Our research is informed by our own practice at The Open University. It draws on our strong record of teaching innovation and the substantial expertise that we have established in this area. The increasing prevalence of elearning and social approaches to learning mean that our work is central to current educational debates.
  • Contact Michel Wermelinger and Karen Kear

Robert Gordon University, Computing Education Group

The University of Southampton: teachingaccessibility.ac.uk 

  • Established 2019

  • Digital technologies have transformed daily life. Yet capacity for producing accessible digital tools and services has not kept pace with demand, exacerbating digital exclusion for disabled people and older people. To address this, ‘Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set’ is a 5 year research study (2019-2024) funded by UK Research and Innovation that seeks to build understanding of accessibility pedagogy, so that teachers of accessibility, trainers and peer-educators in academia and industry have empirical research and evidence-based resources to call upon when developing their teaching.

  • Contact: Sarah Lewthwaite

Swansea University: Education, History and Philosophy 

  • The influence of data, software and computation on the world is intensifying. The emergence of a dazzling range of digital technologies has transformed fundamentally many aspects of our political, economic, social and personal lives. Computer scientists are at the heart of these technologies and can have deep insight into how they affect and change the world – from theory to policy and practice.
  • Contact Faron Muller and John Tucker

Technological University Dublin: csinc.ie

  • CSinc activities are focused on improving the teaching and learning of Computer Science through student camps and workshops, research as well as Teacher CPD sessions on Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge.
  • Contact Keith Quille

The University of the West of Scotland: Creative Computing Technologies (CCT)

  • To advance the understanding and technical applications of creative computing technologies to address societal and industrial challenges in a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, education and training, cultural heritage, entertainment, e-sports, and health and wellbeing.  
  • Contact Marco Gilardi

The University of Zoom: ACM SIGCSE journal club sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk

  • Established during lockdown in 2020, SIGCSE journal club meets at 2pm on the first Monday of every month (on Zoom) to discuss a paper relevant to Computer Science education picked by our community. All welcome! Nominate a paper and join us at sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/join-us/
  • Contact Steven Bradley or Duncan Hull