Fiona Redmond

BSc MSc

Lecturer

Department of Computing
e: fiona.redmond@setu.ie | t: 059 9175597
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Fiona Redmond is a lecturer in the Department of Computing in SETU Carlow. She has worked in Industry for a number of years in Hewlett Packard and An Garda Síochána in various IT Analyst roles before starting work in the third level education sector in 2006. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Commercial Software Development from WIT and an MSc in Information Technology from DIT. She recently completed an online Diploma in Project Management. Professional certifications she has previously achieved include Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP) and Microsoft MTA.

  • Research Interests

  • Publications

  • Research Supervision

  • Engagement and Collaboration

Research Interests

Fiona Redmond is currently undertaking a PhD at Lancaster University in the area of Research, Evaluation and Enhancement in Higher Education. Her research interests include teaching pedagogy, learning enabling technologies, blended learning environments and user experience in technology enhanced learning environments. Fiona is passionate about the promotion of females in technology and is a leader in SETU Carlow’s Women in Technology Society.

Publications

Conference Proceedings and Papers

Redmond, F. 2022. With a Rise in Computing Disciplines Comes a Greater Choice of Computing Degrees in Higher Education. In Koli Calling '22: 22nd Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3564721.3565946

Redmond, F. 2022, The Co-Design of An Outreach Initiative to Attract Females into Higher Education Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol 2 (ITiCSE 2022), July 8–13, 2022, Dublin, Ireland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3502717.3532118

Redmond, F. (2010) Social Networking Sites: Evaluating and Investigating Their Use in Academic Research. The 3rd International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, Conference Proceedings.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Redmond, F. 2021, 'Lecturers’ Perceptions of the Leaving Certificate Computer Science Curriculum and its Influence on Higher Education in Ireland', The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), Vol. 13, No. 2.

Research Supervision

Engagement and Collaboration

Member of INGENIC (Irish Network for Gender Equality in Computing). Some of the aims of this group are to: help increase the enrolment of females on third level computing programmes and improve on the experience of all students within computing programmes.