Dr Lee Clift
Teaching Associate
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
A Teaching Associate in Computing and Information Technology with over a decade of experience in different education sectors. A track record of scholarly publication within Higher Education, targeting computing education.
My interests lie within higher education teaching, both inside and outside institutions. Specifically, they fall into two broad categories: the use of emerging, adopted technology to create authentic assessments for learners and effective outreach within STEM for compulsory education.
Regarding emerging technology, my current research focuses on adapting Generative AI into authentic assessments within computing and computer science. The software industry has requested that more graduates be trained directly and indirectly in the appropriate usage of Generative AI within computing, but with such an emerging and rapidly changing technology, it is important that it is implemented in the correct and responsible way.
Outreach can be a very powerful tool for empowering young members of communities and inspiring them into careers they never considered - computer science has long been thought of as a way for many to gain social mobility. The major issue is how outreach is commonly used as a tool for marketing, not for its primary goal of empowerment, inspiration, and social good. I aim to investigate how this can be done more responsibly and ensure all the benefits of Outreach can be used to aid those who need it.
Publications
- Enhancing student engagement through a gamified feedback loop in computer science
- Anderson Damien, Clift Lee, Chan Warren
- UKICER '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER 2025: UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, pp. 1-1 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3754508.3754527
- Video in assessments for soft skill development and evaluation
- Petrovska Olga, Clift Lee, Pantekis Filippos
- UKICER '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER 2025: UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, pp. 1-1 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3754508.3754531
- Enhancing degree apprentice engagement in hybrid programmes through interactive videos
- Chan Warren, Clift Lee, Anderson Damien
- UKICER '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER 2025: UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, pp. 1-1 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3754508.3754539
- Learning without limits : analysing the usage of generative AI in a summative assessment
- Clift Lee, Petrovska Olga
- CEP '25: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computing Education Practice , pp. 5-8 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3702212.3702214
- Assessing software engineering students' analytical skills in the era of generative AI
- Petrovska Olga, Pearsall Rebecca, Clift Lee
- CEP '25: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computing Education Practice , pp. 34-34 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3702212.3702223
- Incorporating Generative AI into Software Development Education
- Petrovska Olga, Clift Lee, Moller Faron, Pearsall Rebecca
- CEP '24: Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computing Education Practice 8th Conference on Computing Education Practice, CEP 2024, pp. 37-40 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3633053.3633057
Professional Activities
- Personalised Assessment Feedback Through the Use of GenAI
- Speaker
- 1/9/2025
- Generative AI in Assessment: Before, During and After
- Speaker
- 19/6/2025
- Accelerate Schools Programme Computer Science Challenge
- Contributor
- 16/6/2025
Projects
- Partnership Seed Grant Application
- Devlin, Jon (Principal Investigator) Clift, Lee (Co-investigator) Dombi, Erzsebet (Co-investigator) Goodfellow, Martin (Co-investigator) Humphrey, Suzanne (Co-investigator) Huq, Molly (Co-investigator) Murphy, Fiona (Co-investigator) Neves, Karla (Co-investigator) Sprick, Seb (Co-investigator) Wu, Yue (Co-investigator) Young, David (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
- Computer Scientists: Beyond the Spotlight
- Clift, Lee (Co-investigator) Tompkins, Zoe (Principal Investigator) Singh, Amaninder (Co-investigator) Alam, Atm (Co-investigator)
- This project focused on creating a decolonisation collective and exploring the viability of an online repository of lesser-known, non-Western-centric computer scientists, which could be used to create teaching resources.
This was the result of a CPHC special funding grant awarded to the lead institution for 6 months, totalling a value of £5,000. - 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
Contact
Dr
Lee
Clift
Teaching Associate
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: lee.clift@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted