Skills and Competencies Research Group
The Skills and Competencies Research Group sits within the School's Education and Practice (EAP) section. Group members are interested in understanding how students develop skills and competencies across contexts including university and the workplace. The group is also working towards defining and exploring the concept of 'Socially Responsible Computing'.
The Skills and Competencies Research Group is led by Dr Oana Andrei and Dr Waqar Nabi.
We are interested in supervising PhDs in this area - contact details are available via the links to members' profile pages on the right-hand side of the page if you'd like to get in touch.
Selected Research
Andrei, O. , Barr, M. , Nabi, S. W. and Morrison, A. (2025) Understanding Skill Transfer Between University and Workplace Through Reflective Practice: A Software Engineering Work-Based Learning Experience. In: 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2025).
Sabin, M., Barr, M. , Clear, T. and Raj, R. J. (2025) Preparing Professionally Competent Computing Graduates: The Role of Work Experiences. 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2025).
Barr, M. , Nabi, S. W. and Andrei, O. (2025) The Development of Reflective Practice on a Work-Based Software Engineering Program: A Longitudinal Study. In: 37th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2025).
Nabi, S. W. , Andrei, O. , Barr, M. , Cutts, Q. , Maguire, J. , Morrison, A., Parkinson, J. , Somerville, D. and Storer, T. (2025) Assessing Work-Based Learning in the Senior Years of a Software Engineering Graduate Apprenticeship Program. In: IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2025).
Andrei, O. , Nabi, S. W. , Barr, M. and Petrovska, O. (2025) Integrating Socially Responsible Computing Competencies in Computer Science and Software Engineering Education. 9th Conference on Computing Education Practice (CEP 2025). pp. 36-37. ISBN 9798400711725 (doi: 10.1145/3702212.3702225)
Lungu, A.-I., Teodorescu, V., Zaborila, A., Andrei, O. and Lucanu, D. (2024) Alk: a formal-methods-based educational platform for enhancing algorithmic thinking. Scientific Annals of Computer Science, XXXIV(1), pp. 39-66. (doi: 10.47743/SACS.2024.1.39)
Barr, M. , Andrei, O. , Morrison, A. and Nabi, S. W. (2024) The Development of Students' Professional Competencies on a Work-Based Software Engineering Program. In: 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), Portland, OR, USA, 20-23 March 2024, pp. 81-87. ISBN 9798400704239 (doi: 10.1145/3626252.3630944)
Barr, M. and Nabi, S. W. (2022) The Development of Students' Employability Skills on a Work-Based Software Engineering Degree Programme. In: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, Sweden, 8-11 October 2022, ISBN 9781665462440 (doi: 10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962611)
Raj, R. et al. (2021) Professional Competencies in Computing Education. In: ITiCSE 2021: 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Paderborn, Germany, 26 June - 1 July 2021, pp. 133-161. ISBN 9781450392020 (doi: 10.1145/3502870.3506570)
