Shamima Nasrin Runa

PhD Student – School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Research: Investigating Strategies for Enhancing the Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students

Email: shamima.runa@ucdconnect.ie

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shamima-nasrin-runa-4873a984

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShamimaNasrinR1

Education:

  • PhD Computer Science- University College Dublin (Jan 2024-Now)
  • Research MSc Computer Science– University College Dublin (Jan 2022-Jan 2024)
  • MSc Computer Science and Engineering  – Jahangirnagar University (2017-2018)
  • BSc Computer Science and Engineering – Jahangirnagar University (2011- 2016)

Papers:

  1. Shamima Nasrin Runa, Anna Markella Antoniadi, Brett A. Becker, and Catherine Mooney. 2023. Student Sense of Belonging: The Role of Gender Identity and Minoritisation in Computing and Other Sciences. In Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 87–96. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576123.3576133

Posters:

  1. Shamima Nasrin Runa, Brett A. Becker, and Catherine Mooney. 2022. Variations in Sense of Belonging in Undergraduate Computing Students Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 18, 1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555009.3555029
  2. Shamima Nasrin Runa, Andrew McCartan, Brett A. Becker, and Catherine Mooney. 2023. Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students: A Comparative Analysis of University Entry Routes. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 1. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611139
  3. Shamima Nasrin Runa, Andrew McCartan, Brett A. Becker, and Catherine Mooney. 2023. Understanding a post-COVID Drop in the Belongingness of Minoritised Men in an Undergraduate Computer Science Course. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 2 (CompEd 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 202. https://doi.org/10.1145/3617650.3624935

Teaching Assistant:

  • Beijing-Dublin International College (BDIC)
  1. Introduction to Software Engineering
  2. Software Engineering Degree Project