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Matthew Barr
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Head of Education & Practice, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Programme Director, Graduate Apprenticeship in Software Engineering. Director of Education, SICSA. Co-director, Games & Gaming Lab. Director, Ada Scotland Festival.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The underlying papers were co-authored with @uofgcompsci.bsky.social colleagues @oanamandrei.bsky.social, @waqarnabi.bsky.social, and Alistair Morrison.
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is awful 😞
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's hard to believe this is real. Jesus.
July 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
(Building on our previous work on role modeling as a computing educator: doi.org/10.1145/3571...)
Role Modeling as a Computing Educator in Higher Education | Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
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July 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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!
July 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Same goes for the #Murderbot finale. And we wonder why people choose piracy over legit options?
July 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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-...).
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May 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM