Matthew Barr

New journal paper published with @ellatasm.bsky.social and our colleages at Edinburgh Napier University: 'What training do workplace mentors receive to support degree apprentices? An activity theory analysis, focusing on inclusion'

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I haven't had a Mac since System 7 but is a modern Mac a good alternative if you just want stuff to *work*? I love the idea of Linux in principle but life is too short. Windows 11 can't even reliably copy and paste anymore. Time to ditch it.

Thank you to guest editors Hanna Volkova and Alla Shuhai from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and our UK-based colleagues @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social and @kath-eliza.bsky.social for their contributions.

We just published our Ukranian special issue of @osotl.bsky.social: osotl.org/osotl/issue/...

Subtitled 'Tempus fugit, Academia sempiterna' ('time passes, but the academy is eternal'), this was a collaboration with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA).

We'll also hear from an impressive array of industry representatives, education professionals, and inspiring apprentices. Full details are available on the website.

The Future of Apprenticeships Scotland Conference - Holyrood Insight Join our conference to keep up to date with the latest changes to apprenticeships policy and funding in Scotland.

I'm delighted to be chairing the Holyrood Insight Future of Apprenticeships Scotland Conference next week, with keynotes from Ben Macpherson MSP, Minister for Higher and Further Education, and Michelle Thomson MSP.

www.holyroodinsight.com/conferences-...

Festival aims to attract more women and girls to computing The Ada Scotland Festival, named after famous mathematician Ada Lovelace, runs from 29 September to 10 October.

The Ada Scotland Festival is featured in today's Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2548659...

The underlying papers were co-authored with @uofgcompsci.bsky.social colleagues @oanamandrei.bsky.social, @waqarnabi.bsky.social, and Alistair Morrison.

Just published a blog post on the Advance HE website, drawing on our research into how Graduate Apprentices develop an impressive range of professional skills.

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Dr Matthew Barr of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science, director of the Ada Scotland Festival, meets young women at an event during the 2024 festival

The Ada Scotland Festival, which aims to shift the gender balance of Scotland’s computing sector, is set to return with more than 20 events aimed at young women and non-binary people across the country from September 29.

Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Our UofG Colleagues Peter Sneddon, Erin Ferguson, Eric Yao share: Why do students decide to stop studying physics?

#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No1_22 #physics #motivation osotl.org/osotl/articl...

We continue our oSoTL summer with Sarah Honeychurch's: Pragmatism in practice: Bricolage as a methodological framework for SoTL

#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No2_22 #SpecialEdition #bricolage osotl.org/osotl/articl...

Hybrid talk at Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'

An early start this morning to deliver my talk at the hybrid Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'. Thank you to the organsiers (including @waqarnabi.bsky.social) for the invitation!

This is awful 😞

It's hard to believe this is real. Jesus.

Role Modeling as a Computing Educator in Higher Education | Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

(Building on our previous work on role modeling as a computing educator: doi.org/10.1145/3571...)

From disciplinary enthusiasm to soulless tasks: norms behind computing educators' emotion display Computing educators' emotion display is regulated by various norms and conventions. These (unwritten) rules affect which emotions educators feel comfortable expressing to different extents when stu...

New journal article: 'From disciplinary enthusiasm to soulless tasks: norms behind computing educators' emotion display' with @vgrande.bsky.social, Päivi Kinnunen, Anne-Kathrin Peters, @mihaelasabin.bsky.social, Matilde Sánchez-Peña, and Ethel Tshukudu: doi.org/10.1080/0304...

Ha ha, Apple say I need to phone them to get it fixed. The world's biggest tech company needs me to use a telephone to get their streaming service working in 2025!

Same goes for the #Murderbot finale. And we wonder why people choose piracy over legit options?

The Apple TV+ app for Android is the worst streaming app I've ever used. Shockingly poor piece of software that prevents me from watching the content I've paid for. All the hype around the return of #Foundation and I can't even watch it!

@ant-workshop.com have an incredible Ruin Remix Update for Into the Restless Ruins! Guided entirely by the amazing player feedback.

➕ New Remix Levels Unlocked
🐺 Harvest Maiden & Wulver Updates
📿 Brand new room cards, charms, boons & trinkets!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/287...

Very much enjoying this on PS5!

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We covered a lot of work in a short space of time, including our paper on video games and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic (doi.org/10.1177/1555...) and various work on using games to develop graduate skills (e.g. doi.org/10.1016/j.co... and doi.org/10.1007/978-...).

Me playing Zelda circa 1990. I look very cool.

Thanks to the @advancehe.bsky.social team for the opportunity to speak at the Mental Health in Higher Education conference yesterday.

I failed to take any photos so here's a peek at my slides, featuring a very flattering photo of me playing the original Zelda circa 1990.

BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium 2025 - Women into Tech I strongly recommend to any women or gender minorities in computing or related at university to take advantage of this opportunity!

Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...

Dare, always dare: Lovelace Colloquium 2025 On 16 April 2025 the BCS Lovelace Colloquium celebrated its 18th birthday at the University of Glasgow Student’s Union (GUU), a building which forbade women until 1980. Georgia Smith reports.

Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine:

www.bcs.org/articles-opi...

Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!

"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium has finally made it to Glasgow! Amazing… | Matthew Barr The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium has finally made it to Glasgow! Amazing turnout tonight for the pre-conference social, with Colloquium founder Hannah Dee on quizmaster duties. Fantastic atmosphere in...

The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

a map showing the route from Kelvinbridge subway to the Glasgow University Union

Our conference tomorrow - no tickets left, sorry, we're full - is in GUU. Attendees coming by public transport should go to KELVINBRIDGE subway and head up the Great Western Road, then turn left on to Bank Street. Detailed directions + pics follow...

Ada Scotland Festival Gender diversity in computing and tech

Hello Bluesky! Work is already underway on the 2025 Ada Scotland Festival, which will run from 29 September to 10 October. Stay tuned! ada.scot