Dr Rosanne English

Senior Teaching Fellow

Computer and Information Sciences

Personal statement

I am a Senior 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.

Prizes and awards

Associate Dean of Learning Enhancement, Faculty of Science: Recipient; 1/10/2019

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Publications

Engaging students in threat thinking with the cyber security cinema: Maguire Joseph, English Rosanne, Draper Steve; CEP '23 Computing Education Practice 2023 Computing Education Practice, pp. 13-16 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1145/3573260.3573264
Exploring student perceptions and expectations of cyber security: English Rosanne, Maguire Joseph; CEP '23 Computing Education Practice 2023 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 25-28 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1145/3573260.3573267
Research-led active learning sessions in cyber security through research paper reading: Maguire Joseph, English Rosanne, Draper Steve; CEP '23 7th Conference on Computing Education Practice, CEP 2023 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 33-36 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1145/3573260.3573269
Towards integrated graduate skills for UK computing science students: English Rosanne, Hayes Alan; Proceedings of the United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Conference UKICER 2022 (2022) (2022)
Enhancing UK computing education research infrastructure with doctoral consortia: Maguire Joseph, Fincher Sally, Cutts Quintin, English Rosanne; UKICER 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research 4th Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research, UKICER 2022 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 1-2 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1145/3555009.3555011
Challenges and opportunities of teaching cybersecurity in mainstream computing programmes in the U.K.: Prickett Tom, Yang Longzhi, Irons Alastair, Miller Keith, Brooke Phil, Crick Tom, Hayes Alan, Davenport James H, English Rosanne, Maguire Joseph, Bechkoum Kamal, Jones Andrew; Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education (2022) (2022)

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Professional activities

Advance HE Learning and Teaching Conference 2022: Speaker; 5/7/2022
Building a Student Resilience Toolkit: Speaker; 5/7/2022
Strathclyde Student Resilience Toolkit: Speaker; 9/6/2022
Computing Education Practice 2022: Chair; 2022
Flipping the Classroom: Speaker; 1/7/2020
Designing Multiple Choice Questions to assess Higher Level Cognitive Abilities: Speaker; 7/2020

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Projects

A Success Infrastructure for a Diverse Student Community: Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator); QAA funded research project for 2 student interns (£1000); 03-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
Building Student Resilience in HE: A Strathclyde Toolkit: Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator); £2000 QAA Enhancement Theme funding on Student Resilience will support the employment of 4 student interns to develop a toolkit of resources for students and staff at Strathclyde.; 07-Jan-2021 - 06-Jan-2022
Science Study Skills: English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator); This project is developing resource to support Science students in science specific aspects of study skills. For example, this includes scientific writing.; 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021

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Address

Computer and Information Sciences
Livingstone Tower

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