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Schedule

8th January 2026

9:30 Arrival and registration

10:00 Welcome (Steven Bradley)

10:10 Paper Session 1

  • Tom Prickett and Carly Foster. The Summative Assessment of Generative AI Usage within Academic Writing in a Computing Foundation Year
  • Joseph Maguire, Steve Draper and Adriana Wilde. Limited Choices, Greater Engagement: Involving Cyber Security Students in Inclusive Assessment Design
  • Sam Kitson, Adriana Wilde and Richard Gomer. Supporting Group Coursework Assessment in Large Computing Classes through an Open-Source Web Application
  • Tony Gurney and Paul Keir. Scaling Assessment Innovation: From Immediate Feedback MCQs to Automated Question Generation with LLMs

11:15 Coffee

11:45 Paper Session 2

  • William Grey and Sue Sentance. Supporting Transfer of Learning from Block to Text Programming using a Hybrid Drag-and-Drop IDE
  • Joanne Hodge, Claire Hawkins and Sue Sentance. Adapting PRIMM to a primary (K-5) computing setting
  • Faron Moller, Megan Venn-Wycherley and Luke Clement. (Physical) computing in schools: The ongoing case for practitioner support

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Paper Session 3

  • Duncan Hull, Suzanne Embury, Ben Possible, Christopher Page and Tom Carroll. Improving practical software engineering teaching with industrial mentoring of open source team projects
  • Olga Petrovska and Casey Hopkins. Propaganda or Exposure? A Video-Based Group Assessment Exploring Ethics in a Fictional Technological Society
  • Vincent Danys, Agam Cohen, Elisa Fracticelli, Lewis Simpson, Anastasia Trainor and Fiona McNeill. Building belonging: evaluating a student-led peer-support scheme in Computer Science

14:15 Announcements

14:20 Coffee / UK SIGCSE AGM

14:50 Workshops (in parallel)

  • Julian Brooks, Candice Eleanor Moore, Justine Nasejje, Jo Stansfield, Pierre-Philippe Dechant, Rukia Nuermaimaiti and Samson Fabiyi. “Everyone’s quite similar despite being different”: COIL, Sustainability and Decolonisation in Computing Science Education
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    Zoe Tompkins, Amaninder Singh, Lee Clift, Brent Cunningham and Atm Alam. A Practical Guide to Decolonisation: Using the Diverse Computing Pioneers Repository in Teaching Practice
  • Muddasser Alam, Alan Hayes and Ioannis Benardis. Teaching Computer Science Technical Competencies in the Modern Era
  • Gennaro Imperatore, Eleni Karagiannidou, Aurora Constantin, Muhammad Irfan and Mohamed Elawady. Accessibility in Computer Science Education: Shifting Practice through Dialogic Pedagogy
  • Debbie Meharg, Fiona Stewart, Dimitrios Darzentas, Suzi Cathro and Tatiana Tungli. Workshop: Reimagining Libraries as Gateways to Computing Science

16:00 Finish