Mr Stewart Powell

Honorary Lecturer

Faculty of Science and Engineering

s.w.powell@swansea.ac.uk

About

Stewart is an Honorary Lecturer in the Computer Science Department, working closely with colleagues across the University on numerous projects within the areas of computer science and education.

Stewart is currently working in the field of Education Technology (EdTech), providing strategic leadership for the development and implementation of EdTech to enhance the provision of teaching and learning across Wales. He is responsible for supporting and developing the use of evolving technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), in education.

Prior to becoming an Honorary Lecturer, Stewart was the Assistant Director of Technocamps. Technocamps is the computer science department's highly successful school and community outreach programme, which has regional hubs in every computer science department across Wales. He was responsible for the national coordination of the programme and successfully secured funding from several sources.

Areas Of Expertise

Computer Science Education
Curriculum Development
Education Technology (EdTech)

Publications

Research Highlights

Moller, F. & Powell, S. (2019). Technoteach: Supporting Computing Teachers Across Wales. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education on - WiPSCE'19ACM Press.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3361721.3361736, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51714
Moller, F. & Powell, S. (2019). Teaching Computing via a School Placement. In CEP '19: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice (pp. 1-4). CEP Computing Education Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3294016.3294029, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa46121
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3294016.3294029
Moller, F., O'Reilly, L., Powell, S., & Hopkins, C. (2021). Teaching Them Early: Formal Methods in School. Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 173-190). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_9
Moller, F., O'Reilly, L., Powell, S., & Hopkins, C. (2021). Teaching Them Early: Formal Methods in School. In International Workshop on Formal Methods - Fun for Everybody FMFun 2019: Formal Methods – Fun for Everybody (pp. 173-190). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57838
Moller, F., Powell, S., Asplin, P., Archambault, D., Turkay, C., McNeill, G., & Sondag, M. (2022). Modelling Zombies and Other Diseases. In Xiaoling Zhang, Christian Glahn, Nardie Fanchamps, Marcus Specht (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (pp. 18-21). TU Delft OPEN Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.34641/ctestem.2022.457, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61011

All Research

Book Chapters

Moller, F., O'Reilly, L., Powell, S., & Hopkins, C. (2021). Teaching Them Early: Formal Methods in School. Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 173-190). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_9

Conference Contributions

Mcneill, G., Sondag, M., Powell, S., Asplin, P., Turkay, C., Moller, F., & Archambault, D. (2023). From Asymptomatics to Zombies: Visualization-Based Education of Disease Modeling for Children. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581573, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581573
Moller, F., Powell, S., Asplin, P., Archambault, D., Turkay, C., McNeill, G., & Sondag, M. (2022). Modelling Zombies and Other Diseases. In Xiaoling Zhang, Christian Glahn, Nardie Fanchamps, Marcus Specht (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth APSCE International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education (pp. 18-21). TU Delft OPEN Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.34641/ctestem.2022.457, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61011
Moller, F., O'Reilly, L., Powell, S., & Hopkins, C. (2021). Teaching Them Early: Formal Methods in School. In International Workshop on Formal Methods - Fun for Everybody FMFun 2019: Formal Methods – Fun for Everybody (pp. 173-190). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57838
Moller, F. & Powell, S. (2019). Technoteach: Supporting Computing Teachers Across Wales. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education on - WiPSCE'19ACM Press.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3361721.3361736, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51714
Moller, F. & Powell, S. (2019). Teaching Computing via a School Placement. In CEP '19: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice (pp. 1-4). CEP Computing Education Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3294016.3294029, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa46121
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3294016.3294029