Doctor Rosanne English
Principal Teaching Fellow
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I am a Principal Teaching Fellow in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. My job focuses on teaching and learning in computer science, in particular my role currently involves the development and delivery of departmental strategy relating to learning and teaching, leadership of teaching committee, and cyber security teaching. In teaching computer science my primary goal is to develop students' ability to be computational thinkers. I believe this can be achieved by encouraging deep learning of the subject material and developing students as independent learners. To help develop students as independent learners I adopt a student-centred approach. To achieve this I use a number of mechanisms. One example is "interactive windows" as defined by Huxham (2005) where at most 10 minutes of content is delivered followed by activities such as paired discussions, problem solving, and quiz questions. As well as my day to day teaching and learning activities, I am also interested in the pedagogy of computer science. I am eager to explore how we can achieve more effective and efficient assessment and feedback and my work has covered aspects such as blended learning, plagiarism and continuous assessment.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 18/7/2024
- Recipient
- 1/10/2019
Publications
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- INTED2026 Proceedings 20th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference INTED Proceedings (2025)
- Bradley Steven, , Fincher Sally, Hull Duncan, Zarb Mark
- Proceedings of Koli Calling 25th International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling 鈥�25) Koli Calling (2025)
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- (2025)
- Maguire Joseph, , Cao Qi, Kiat Seow Chee
- Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computing Education Practice (CEP 2025) Computing Eduction Practice 2025, pp. 17-20 (2025)
- , Maguire Joseph, Wilde Adriana
- Advances in Teaching and Learning for Cyber Security Education Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pp. 192-212 (2024)
Professional Activities
- Organiser
- 7/1/2026
- Advisor
- 1/2026
- Advisor
- 12/2025
- Peer reviewer
- 9/2025
- Speaker
- 19/6/2025
- Recipient
- 27/5/2025
Projects
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator)
- 05-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator) Ciocarlan, Cristian (Co-investigator) Miller, Ainsley (Co-investigator) Stewart, Ryan (Co-investigator) Vaughan, Helen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator)
- This project is the result of the e3 Tech Grant awarded by Echo360. In it, we are exploring the use of echo learning software to support students from a range of backgrounds in reacclimatising to higher education.
Two years with software equivalent funding ($5000 USD each year), totalling $10000 equivalent. - 28-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2025
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator) Willison, Debra (Co-investigator)
- 拢720 internally competitive funding. This QAA Enhancement Theme Funded Project reviewed the resilience toolkit from a previously funded project to identify any inclusion and equality concerns not addressed in the original project.
- 05-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator) Weir, Catriona (Post Grad Student)
- 03-Jan-2022
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator) Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator)
- This project explored best practice in assessment and feedback in the Faculty of Science, and identified how it aligned with research in the field.
- 06-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Doctor
Rosanne
English
Principal Teaching Fellow
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: rosanne.english@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4301