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Sue Sentance

British computer scientist and educator

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About Sue Sentance

Sue Sentance was a British computer scientist and university teacher.

Early life and education Sentance studied artificial intelligence (AI) and information technology (IT) at the University of Edinburgh followed by a PhD in 1993 investigating intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) supervised by Helen Pain and Elisabet Engdahl.

Career and research In 2014 Sentance joined King's College London as a lecturer in computing education. Sentance served on the Royal Society computing education advisory group in 2016, with whom she investigated computer science education in the United Kingdom. Sentance was involved with the evaluation of .NET Gadgeteer and the Micro Bit.

Sentance joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2018 as Chief Learning Officer where she oversees a gender disparity in computing program that seeks to improve the representation of girls in computer science classes. She has served on the board of Computing at School (CAS). Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Microsoft. She collaborates with the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) and joined the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge in 2021.

Awards and honours

2017: British Educational Research Association (BERA) public engagement and impact award 2020: Suffrage Science award for her work on computing education.

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Important facts

Nationality
Education
University of Edinburgh, University of Warwick, Oxford Brookes University, Anglia Ruskin University
Employers
King's College London, Raspberry Pi Foundation, University of Cambridge
Awards
Lovelace Medal; Suffrage Science awards
Also known as
Susan Sentance

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Sue Sentance

· Wikidata: Q64829651

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