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We are pleased to announce the launch of a new SICSA KE Short-Theme in “Defining the Future of Video Game Accessibility”.  The new Short-Theme will run from April 2016 to April 2017 and will be led by Dr Michael Crabb and Dr Michael Heron from Robert Gordon University, in partnership with the BBC. If you would ...

The SICSA PhD Conference has become one of the highlights of the SICSA events calendar, bringing together Computing Science and Informatics PhD students, leading academics, and industry practitioners for 2 days of workshops, keynote presentations and social events. The conference is an event aimed specifically at Informatics and Computer Science PhD students and is organised ...

However big, however small your ideas, Research Ventures is about finding out how you can develop them into something that matters for you. SICSA has 10 fully-funded places for research students in Computer Science to attend the next Research Ventures event, which will take place at the University of Glasgow on 16 & 17 May 2016. Introduction We’ll cover ...

The SICSA Directors are keen to invite proposals from researchers working within SICSA institutions for specific Research Challenges. The SICSA Research Challenges will complement the already established Research Themes and are expected to have the following characteristics: They are driven by a problem or issue whose resolution will have impact on the world outside Informatics and ...

SICSA Education Induction Day 16th February 2016, University of Glasgow This SICSA Induction Day is oriented to recently appointed Higher Education academics in Computing and related disciplines.  Established academics, school teachers, and research students and staff are also welcome.  We will cover discipline specific matters in regards to teaching computing such as: • Teaching and Assessing Programming • ...

Call for speakers: SICSA Induction Day Tuesday 16th February 2016 We will be holding our annual SICSA education induction day on the 16th of February between 10am and 3pm in Room 423, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. We are looking for people who are interested in leading a session at this ...

The SICSA Directors are keen to invite proposals from researchers working within SICSA institutions for specific Research Challenges. The SICSA Research Challenges will complement the already established Research Themes and are expected to have the following characteristics: • They are driven by a problem or issue whose resolution will have impact on the world outside Informatics ...

Introduction:  The SICSA Directors would like to invite proposals from researchers working within SICSA institutions for new KE short-themes that will complement the existing Research Themes and Challenges. We are looking to support themes of 12-months duration with up to £4k of SICSA funding (industry funding or other sources of funding from outside of SICSA can supplement ...

Researchers and students are invited to attend the Glasgow Social Robotics Seminar Series organised by the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology & School of Computing Science. The first seminar of the series will be held on 9th October 2015 at University of Glasgow’s School of Psychology and will feature Professor James Russell from Boston College. For full ...

Deadline extended  SICSA Education Call for Workshops Proposals in 2015/16 SICSA Education would like to invite the community to apply for funds to host a SICSA Education workshops.  At the education all hands meeting earlier in the year several potential topics for workshops were suggested including: Teaching 1st year programming What makes a good honours project? How to articulate successfully ...