The Rest is Teaching: A Podcast for Computing Education Practitioners & Researchers

[Rachael Horsman]

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Department of Computer Science

The Rest is Teaching: A Podcast for Computing Education Practitioners & Researchers

Published: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:13:32 +0100

How can we improve the way we teach Computing? How can we make the subject more accessible, inclusive, equitable, ethical, interesting and relevant to learners of all ages, backgrounds and motivations? These are the big questions we investigate with our guests on a brand new show called The Rest is Teaching: A Podcast for Computing Education Practitioners and Researchers. We talk to authors from our monthly ACM and SIGCSE journal club to find out more about how their work is changing the way that Computer Science is taught and learnt. Launched at ukicer.com 2025 at the University of Edinburgh, our first five episodes feature the following guests:

1. Sue Sentance from the University of Cambridge and Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre on her research into computing in schools across the UK and Ireland with Diana Kirby, Keith Quille, Elizabeth Cole, Tom Crick and Nicola Looker at doi.org/p5hk

2. Quintin Cutts from the University of Glasgow on his research with Maria Kallia into code comprehension in introductory programming classes doi.org/p5hm

3. Rosanne English from the University of Strathclyde on her research into employability and professional skills for graduates with Alan Hayes at the University of Bath  doi.org/p5hn

4. Steve Draper & Joseph Maguire from the University of Glasgow on what counts as Computing Education Research (CER) doi.org/p5hp

5. Suzanne Matthews from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York with Tia Newhall and Kevin C. Webb from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania on diving into open online interactive textbook publishing at diveintosystems at doi.org/p5hd

Listen or subscribe on Apple, Spotify or uki-sigcse.acm.org/podcast. The next five episodes are currently in production due for release throughout the autumn before Christmas 2025.

The Rest is Teaching revisits our journal club discussions which take place on the first Monday of every month at 2pm UTC on Zoom, hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. As of September 2025, we've had 53 monthly club meetings since starting in 2020 with more than 300 new members from the UK, Ireland, Europe, the USA and beyond joining our Slack channel and mailing list. People are the foundation of everything we do and anyone is welcome to join our thriving, diverse and accessible community online at sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/join-us

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Fiona McNeil and Cristina Alexandru for chairing UKICER, an inspiring conference (again) and great place to launch our community podcast. Join us for UKICER in September 2026 for more of the same where we'll be hosted by the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Thanks to the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) for funding this project. Thanks to my colleagues in the Department of Computer Science for support, Paul Nutter and Andrew Stewart. Thanks to everyone at podcast.co for advising, producing, mixing and transcribing the show. 

Thanks to Sally Fincher, Steven Bradley and everyone at the UK Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education for encouragement, patience and support. Thanks to Kristin Stephens-Martinez for transatlantic inspiration from across the pond at the CS-Ed Podcast.

We hope you enjoy listening to our guests showcasing some of the important work our community is doing in a way that is more accessible to a wider audience. If you teach computing, we also hope you find something useful for improving your own teaching practice and research. Finally, we'd like to thank all our guests for taking the time to be the real superstars of this show. 

Any questions, feedback or comments on the show, please get in touch with us at uki-sigcse.acm.org/contact 

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