Sue Sentance

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Sue Sentance
Born
Susan Sentance
Alma mater University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Awards Suffrage Science award (2020)
Scientific career
Fields Computer science education [1]
Institutions Raspberry Pi Foundation
University of Cambridge
National Centre for Computing Education
King's College London
Anglia Ruskin University [2]
Thesis Recognising and responding to English article usage errors : an ICALL based approach  (1993)
Doctoral advisor Elisabet Engdahl
Helen Pain [3]
Website suesentance.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Susan Sentance is a British computer scientist, educator and director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Computing Education Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. [4] [5] [1] [6] [7] Her research investigates a wide range of issues computer science education, teacher education and the professional development of those teaching computing. [8] [2] In 2020 Sentance was awarded a Suffrage Science award for her work on computing education. [9] [10]

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Early life and education

Sentance studied artificial intelligence (AI) and information technology (IT) at the University of Edinburgh [10] where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1989 [11] followed by a PhD in 1993 investigating intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) supervised by Helen Pain and Elisabet Engdahl. [3]

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. [12] Sentance was involved with the evaluation of .NET Gadgeteer and the Micro Bit. [13] [14]

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). [15] [16] Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Microsoft. [17] She collaborates with the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) [18] and joined the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge in 2021. [4]

With Erik Barendsen and Carsten Schulte, she edited the book Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School. [19]

Awards and honours

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References

  1. 1 2 Sue Sentance publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Brown, Neil Christopher Charles; Kölling, Michael; Crick, Tom; Peyton Jones, Simon; Humphreys, Simon; Sentance, Sue (2013). "Bringing computer science back into schools" (PDF). SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education: 269–274. doi:10.1145/2445196.2445277. ISBN   9781450318686. S2CID   13376671.
  3. 1 2 Sentance, Susan (1993). Recognising and responding to English article usage errors : an ICALL based approach. ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/20176. OCLC   605993412. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.661745. Lock-green.svg
  4. 1 2 Anon (2021). "Dr Sue Sentance: Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre". cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021.
  5. ↑ Sue Sentance on Twitter OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. ↑ Sue Sentance at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  7. ↑ Sue Sentance author profile page at the ACM Digital Library OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  8. ↑ Sentance, Sue; Csizmadia, Andrew (2016). "Computing in the curriculum: Challenges and strategies from a teacher's perspective". Education and Information Technologies. 22 (2): 469–495. doi: 10.1007/s10639-016-9482-0 . ISSN   1360-2357. S2CID   345581.
  9. 1 2 Ander, Janina (2020). "Sue Sentance recognised with Suffrage Science award". raspberrypi.org. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  10. 1 2 3 Pallister, Katy (2020). "Maths and Computing Awardee 2020: Dr Sue Sentance". suffragescience.org. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021.
  11. ↑ Sentance, Susan (1989). Improved responses from an English language front end (MSc thesis). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. OCLC   606177034.
  12. ↑ Neil C. C. Brown; Sue Sentance; Tom Crick; Simon Humphreys (2014). "Restart: The Resurgence of Computer Science in UK Schools" (PDF). ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 14 (2): 1–22. doi:10.1145/2602484. OCLC   5622555331. S2CID   207213634.
  13. ↑ Anon (2017). "Dr Sue Sentance". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  14. ↑ Sentance, Sue; Waite, Jane; Hodges, Steve; MacLeod, Emily; Yeomans, Lucy (2017). "Creating Cool Stuff: Pupils' Experience of the BBC micro:bit". SIGCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education: 531–536. doi:10.1145/3017680.3017749. S2CID   18976762.
  15. ↑ Anon (2018). "Meet our team". computingatschool.org.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  16. ↑ Anon (2014). "Dr Sue Sentance: Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science Education". kcl.ac.uk. King's College London. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  17. ↑ Anon (2019). "UK government grants awarded to Sue Sentance". ukri.org. Swindon: UK Research and Innovation. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  18. ↑ suesentance.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  19. ↑ Sentance, Sue; Barendsen, Erik; Schulte, Carsten, eds. (2018). Computer science education: perspectives on teaching and learning in school. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   9781350057104. OCLC   1113298221.
  20. ↑ Anon (2017). "BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award". bera.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  21. ↑ Anon (2020). "Suffrage Science Awards". suffragescience.org. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
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