Julia Crossley

Overview

Julia Crossley is a PhD student in the giCentre, in the Department of Computer Science. She supervised by Dr Marjahan Begum and Prof Jo Wood.

Julia Crossley is a doctoral researcher in Computer Science Education whose work investigates student argumentation in computational contexts, focusing on how learners construct, justify, and communicate claims in written algorithmic and problem-solving tasks. Her research develops an inferentialist perspective to analyse how students’ argumentative structures interact with disciplinary norms, highlighting how commitments, entitlements, and inferential links shape the quality and coherence of their work. She combines philosophical foundations with qualitative and mixed-methods analysis to illuminate patterns in abstraction, flawed or partial argumentation, and the role of abductive, deductive, and inductive moves in students’ written solutions. Alongside this theoretical contribution, she brings extensive experience teaching experience, and participates actively in the computing education research community through conference presentations, workshop leadership, and peer review.

Grants and Scholarships:

PGRS 2023 - travel scholarship to attend the International Computing Education Research conference (ICER '23).

Doctoral Studentship (2022–2025): full-time funded studentship to conduct Computing Education research; fees covered through 2026.

Qualifications

• FHEA, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, February 2023
• MSc Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2003 - October 2004
• BSc Mathematics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, October 2000 - July 2003

Postgraduate training

• PGCert, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom, 2020 - October 2022

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and French (can read, write, speak, understand spoken)

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