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Department of Computer Science and Technology


Read more at: Katharine Childs

Katharine Childs

The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre was established in July 2021 and is based in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. The Centre is a joint initiative between the University and the Raspberry Pi Foundation and seeks to increase our understanding of teaching and learning computing, computer science, and associated subjects, with a particular focus on young people who are from backgrounds that are traditionally under-represented in the field of computing or who experience educational disadvantage.



Read more at: Laurie Gale

Laurie Gale

I'm a third year PhD student at the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, supervised by Dr. Sue Sentance. I'm interested in exploring how to teach programming to primary/secondary school students, with the hope of helping more pupils to enjoy, engage with, and achieve in computing.





Read more at: Zébulon Goriely

Zébulon Goriely

I’m a PhD student here at the University of Cambridge studying Computational Linguistics. My research involves using artificial neural networks to study the early stages of child language acquisition and I am supervised by Paula Buttery.


Read more at: Dr Matthew Patterson

Dr Matthew Patterson

I am the Project Manager for Isaac Online, a free online learning platform comprising 


Read more at: Dr Zheng Yuan

Dr Zheng Yuan

My research focuses on machine learning and deep learning for natural language processing, including real-world applications in education, healthcare, creativity, social media and finance, such as grammatical error correction, automated assessment, summarisation, machine translation, textual information extraction, text classification, emotion detection, and sentiment analysis.