Louise Hayes
Senior Lecturer (Computer Science)
My profile
Biography
I am a graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University where I have worked full-time since 2018 as part of the Computing Education team, lecturing on both the PGCE Secondary and BA (Hons) Education course. Before joining MMU, I worked as a Head of Computing for over 12 years at a large Independent School in the North West of England. In 2003, I re-trained from a succesfull career in the telecommunications industry as a Secondary School Computing and IT teacher.
I am near completion of my Doctor in Education course where my work centres around inclusive education practices in computing education.
Impact
Membership of professional associations
IFIP TC3 WCCE Working Group Member (intending)
National Centre for Computing Education, Facilitator( L3) + Subject Matter Expert (2019-21)
Community and Charity Work
Project Ripple, Africa, Lead Facilitator, Computing Teacher Workshop (2019)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, Teacher Workshop (70+ teachers),
Digital Enterprise Award, known as iDEA (2020)
Computing at School Barefoot Ambassador (2017-20)
The British Computer Society Manchester Branch (2022 - )
Projects
Symposium: Exploring Issues of Inclusion in Computing Education,
M.Chesterman, L. Hayes, C. Lewin and E. Overland, OCCE 2020, Mumbai, India. 6-8.1.20
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
Computing Education
Subject areas
Computing Education
Supervision
Doctor of Education
An exploration of unconscious bias within Secondary School Computing teacher education. 2016 - 2022
Aims:
● To develop an understanding of unconscious bias in the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Secondary Computing curriculum.
● To deliver a revised PGCE programme to generate an awareness of unconscious bias.
● To examine how pre-service teachers who have received the revised programme experience the new computing curriculum in the Secondary School classroom.
● To develop recommendations for revising curriculum material to address unconscious bias for teaching computing for other ITE providers.
Research outputs
Hayes, L. (2020) ‘An early exploration of gender imbalance in computing’. In T.Brinda, D. Passey & T. Keane (Eds)., Empowering Teaching for Digital Equity and Agency: FIP TC 3 Open Conference on Computers in Education, OCCE 2020, Mumbai, India, January 6–8, 2020, Proceedings, Volume 595 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 66-70.