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Learning Where Angels Fear to Tread: Evaluative Questions for Necessarily Insider Professional Practice
In Professional Practice research, we’ve long celebrated the idea that some of the most valuable learning comes from within our own messy, lived experiences. But what happens when that messiness isn’t just inconvenient, but ethically fraught, emotionally overwhelming, or simply too complex for conventional research approaches? That was the starting point for our work on […]
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Seven Times Upon an Ism: Extending the Layered Drivers Framework
June 29, 2025
A year ago, we introduced the Layered Drivers “isms” framework building on Boehnert’s levels of sexism as a structured way to identify and act upon the complex, multi-level drivers of systemic oppression in professional settings. Since then, we’ve been busy not just talking about it, but testing and expanding it, in the messiness of real […]
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Unpacking Layered Drivers: Tugging on the Threads of Systemic Change
June 29, 2025
When we began this work, we weren’t trying to build a new model. We were just trying to make sense of why meaningful change so often stalls—even when the will is there. As researchers and practitioners committed to Professional Practice with real-world impact, we’ve grown wary of single-point interventions. A new policy here, a workshop […]
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Why We Needed to Retell the Story of Computing
June 29, 2025
When we started this work, we weren’t trying to retrofit sustainability or decolonisation into our existing computing teaching. We knew that would never be enough. Instead, we asked a more foundational question: What does a decolonised computing professional look like? Not just in theory, but in lived, everyday practice. That question led us down a […]
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In this paper…
June 25, 2025
“In this paper…” is a collection of responses from computer scientists to the silencing ofscience. Book: https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6863 Genre prompts: A set of 219 genre prompts for professional practice creative non-fiction. https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6854 Reverse panel prompts: Cite as: Guruge, D., Mann, S., Myers, R., Bates, 0., Goldweber, M., Williamson, A., Lasenby, J., & Brooks, I. (2025). Surviving […]
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Computing for Sustainability 
June 30, 2025
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