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
- A practical guide to decolonisation : using the diverse computing pioneers repository in teaching practice (workshop)
- Tompkins Zoe, Singh Amaninder, Clift Lee, Cunningham Brent, Alam Atm
- CEP '26: Proceedings of the 10th Computing Education Practice , pp. 43-43 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3772338.3772339
- Planly : Teaching AI planning through block-based programming and robotics
- Clift Lee, Anderson Damien, Weir Catriona, Rodgers Phil, El Gemayel Joseph
- ACM Digital Library with its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) Human-Centered AI Education & Practice Conference (2025)
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
Professional Activities
- Smile! Your Being (Video) Assessed
- Speaker
- 26/11/2025
- Video in Assessments for Soft Skill Development and Evaluation
- Speaker
- 24/11/2025
- Living Lab CPD Session for Education Academy
- Speaker
- 21/11/2025
- Technocamps Scotland: AI on the Assembly Line Priamry School Workshops
- Recipient
- 10/2025
- Living Lab School Visit by St Mungo’s Academy
- Recipient
- 25/9/2025
- Personalised Assessment Feedback Through the Use of GenAI
- Speaker
- 1/9/2025
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
- Technocamps Scotland: Coimpiutaireachd sa Ghàidhlig
- Clift, Lee (Principal Investigator) Birnie, Inge (Co-investigator)
- 28-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2026
- 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