Research in Practice Project Activity

Multi-institutional, practical projects for broad-reaching, robust research and practice.



Ongoing RIPPA: Spatial Skills

The first RIPPA, started in 2021, is focused on exploring in more detail the relationship between spatial skills and success in introductory computing. Find out more on the dedicated info pages


RIPPA Principles

Research in Practice Project Activities (RIPPAs) are a new form of collaborative, community-forming activity for Computing Science education research and practice at the United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference.

The aim is to bring practitioners and researchers together in computing science education to form networks, exchanges ideas, form collaborations and put research into practice, incorporate research into practice or improving practice.

RIPPAs span several months and participants are expected to commit to participating in a small number of workshops as well as conducting some activity in their context, such as incorporating research into practice, collecting data and/or conducting research.

Participation and Commitment

The specific participation and commitment requirements depends on the RIPPA, but broadly RIPPAS require participants to:

Outcomes

The focus of RIPPAs is the participants and the expectation is that rippers will achieve the following from participating in a RIPPA: