Career paths in Computing

What the real Pros say

Here is what some (female) computer scientists and electronic engineers said that they most liked about their job and the subject.… (read on)

In space no one can hear you …

Johanna Lucht could do maths before she learned language. Why? Because she was born deaf and there was little support for deaf people where she lived. Despite, or perhaps because of, that she became a computer scientist and works for NASA. (Read on)

Black in Data

Careers do not have to be decided from day 1. You can end up in a good place in a roundabout way. That happened to Data Analyst, Sadiqah Musa. Now she’s helping make Big Data career paths easier for others to follow..… (read on)

Jacquie Lawson: the multi-million pound greeting

There is real money to be made out there in the virtual world – if you are willing to put in the effort to develop appropriate skills.

You don’t have to be young or a geek either. At the age of 62, grandmother Jacquie Lawson turned a hobby into a multi-million pound business…(read on)

The thundering engines …

Computer scientist Jason Cordes tells us what it was like to work for NASA on the International Space Station during the time of Space Shuttle launches...… (read on)

A look at Computer Science PhDs

The first major step to a research career in Computer Science is to do a PhD. PhDs can study many different things. The one thing they must do is make a contribution to knowledge (sometimes big, usually small). Read our collection of CS4FN articles on different PhD projects Computer Science. It aims to give a flavour of what different people’s PhDs were about … (read on)

Tech Entrepreneurship

If you want to really make a difference (or just become rich), one way many computer scientists and electronic engineers have followed is to become an entrepreneur – take a good idea and create a startup company to turn it into reality … (read on)

Helping future you remember past you

AMPER is a Scottish project funded by the EPSRC is developing a tool to support people with dementia / Alzheimer’s Disease in recovering their memories. We give some activity suggestions and links to PhD jobs with the ‘Dramaturgy for Devices’ project in the Netherlands. … (read on)

Collaborative community coding

The Equality, diversity and inclusion in the R Project: collaborative community coding & curating EPSRC-funded project looks at ways of making a particular programming language (greatly used in research) more inclusive and relevant for a wider group of people. Includes examples of several Research Software Engineer roles for class career discussions. … (read on)

Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Parts 1 and 2)

Jobs: finding work experience, or a job in computer science

More to come…