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Research

What we study — and how we work in the open.

DATA examines how computing-education spaces perpetuate or resist colonial knowledge structures. The method matters as much as the findings: the work is participatory, and it is done transparently — in a shared repository, in view of its partners.

Methodology

Participatory, mixed-methods, quintuple-helix.

We pair qualitative study of education spaces with hands-on technology practice. Community and environment join academia, industry and government as equal partners in the research — not subjects of it.

Partner communities help set the questions and the terms, so the findings belong to the people they describe.

How we work

In the open, in one repository.

Code, designs, content and decisions flow through a self-hosted Forgejo — not a private drive and not a commercial platform. The repository is the hub: partners can see the work as it happens, and the history is the record.

This website is built the same way. What you are reading is bootstrapped in public — a small demonstration of the transparency the project argues for.

Dissemination

Sharing the work — papers, talks, workshops.

Papers

Peer-reviewed and open-access publications — listed in full below, with DOIs. Anyone on the team can add one.

Presentations

Talks and posters at conferences and partner institutions across the network.

Workshops

Hands-on sessions — like the LoRaWAN builds — run at makerspaces and the Innovation Systems Lab.

Datasets

An open dataset — planned, on the community's terms.

The sensor network will produce an open environmental dataset. Communities hold what their own nodes measure and will decide what is shared beyond them — and whatever is published will be genuinely open, free for anyone to use without asking us. An open API for the published data is planned too. Nothing is published yet; this describes where the work is going.

Outputs

Publications.

2026

  1. poster“Everyone Thinks Like I Do”: Unlearning Assumptions in Decolonial Computing EducationDOI 10.1145/3830800.3830830 — resolves on publicationJ. Brooks, C. Moore, J. Stansfield, J. B. Nasejje, P.-P. Dechant, R. Nuermaimaiti · UKICER 2026, Cambridge, 3–4 September 2026Abstract published in the conference proceedings.
  2. paper“Everyone's Quite Similar Despite Being Different”: COIL, Sustainability and Decolonisation in Computing Science EducationJ. Brooks, C. E. Moore, J. Nasejje, J. Stansfield, P.-P. Dechant, R. Nuermaimaiti, S. Fabiyi · Computing Education Practice (CEP 2026), ACM, 41–42

2025

  1. chapterTowards Decolonial Computing Education: Surfacing Patterns from Makerspace PracticeJ. Brooks, C. Moore, P.-P. Dechant, J. B. Nasejje, N. Jere, S. D. Fabiyi, R. Nuermaimaiti · CompEd 2025 Working Group Reports, Gaborone, Botswana

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