Dr Safia Barikzai
@safiabarikzai.bsky.social
Deputy Head of School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies at London South Bank University, Interim Chair School Advisory Board at @southbankua, BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium Chair, views mine
Picnic by the river
June 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Picnic by the river
Wonderful to have Coding Black Females ‘code and chill’ event at LSBU - I get to chill whilst others are busy coding. Not a bad deal.
June 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Wonderful to have Coding Black Females ‘code and chill’ event at LSBU - I get to chill whilst others are busy coding. Not a bad deal.
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Great site visit to Bath this week. It's going to be awesome!
June 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Great site visit to Bath this week. It's going to be awesome!
Visiting the glorious city of Bath. Planning for the 19th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is in full swing.
@bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social #WomenInComputing #WomenInTech
@bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social #WomenInComputing #WomenInTech
June 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Visiting the glorious city of Bath. Planning for the 19th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is in full swing.
@bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social #WomenInComputing #WomenInTech
@bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social #WomenInComputing #WomenInTech
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Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...
BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium 2025 - Women into Tech
I strongly recommend to any women or gender minorities in computing or related at university to take advantage of this opportunity!
blogs.napier.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...
Love my nephews 🎂 🎁
May 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Love my nephews 🎂 🎁
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We are at LSBU wrapping up 2025 and planning for Lovelace 2026 - Bath, April 9-10.
May 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We are at LSBU wrapping up 2025 and planning for Lovelace 2026 - Bath, April 9-10.
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Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine:
www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!
www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!
Dare, always dare: Lovelace Colloquium 2025
On 16 April 2025 the BCS Lovelace Colloquium celebrated its 18th birthday at the University of Glasgow Student’s Union (GUU), a building which forbade women until 1980. Georgia Smith reports.
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May 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine:
www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!
www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!
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Our chair, @safiabarikzai.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the SheCanCode STEM Educator awards.
shecancode.io/stem-educato...
If you want to vote for her please do!
She's not only chair of our brilliant women-in-tech conference, she's a school governor, senior lecturer and an all-round superstar
shecancode.io/stem-educato...
If you want to vote for her please do!
She's not only chair of our brilliant women-in-tech conference, she's a school governor, senior lecturer and an all-round superstar
STEM Educator Awards Shortlist 2025
Discover the 2025 shortlist for SheCanCode's STEM Educator Awards, celebrating the outstanding educators shaping the future of women in STEM.
shecancode.io
April 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Our chair, @safiabarikzai.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the SheCanCode STEM Educator awards.
shecancode.io/stem-educato...
If you want to vote for her please do!
She's not only chair of our brilliant women-in-tech conference, she's a school governor, senior lecturer and an all-round superstar
shecancode.io/stem-educato...
If you want to vote for her please do!
She's not only chair of our brilliant women-in-tech conference, she's a school governor, senior lecturer and an all-round superstar
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It was so good to catch up with @safiabarikzai.bsky.social at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social social evening last night 🤩
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It was so good to catch up with @safiabarikzai.bsky.social at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social social evening last night 🤩
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And now cake.
April 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
And now cake.
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It's time for the prizewinners megathread!
April 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's time for the prizewinners megathread!
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In the afternoon we had a great talk from Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas about using technology to enable animals to communicate remotely (her dog can video call her, and parrots can call other parrots).
April 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In the afternoon we had a great talk from Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas about using technology to enable animals to communicate remotely (her dog can video call her, and parrots can call other parrots).
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Carole Rennie Logan was our third and final speaker of the morning session. She described her progress from graduate to community organiser and conference speaker.
April 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Carole Rennie Logan was our third and final speaker of the morning session. She described her progress from graduate to community organiser and conference speaker.
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Our next speaker was Bala Tirumalasetti from our Gold Sponsor Ocado Technology. Bala spoke about improving processes at Ocado, and having the right structures and frameworks to do that.
April 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Our next speaker was Bala Tirumalasetti from our Gold Sponsor Ocado Technology. Bala spoke about improving processes at Ocado, and having the right structures and frameworks to do that.
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You can catch Bala during the rest of the day on the Ocado employer stand.
April 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You can catch Bala during the rest of the day on the Ocado employer stand.
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"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.
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Another very good and clear message from Sharon!🐈🦁
April 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Another very good and clear message from Sharon!🐈🦁
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Sharon gave many excellent suggestions to the Lovelace audience.
April 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sharon gave many excellent suggestions to the Lovelace audience.
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18! Here we go
April 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
18! Here we go
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Ready to greet you all!
April 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Ready to greet you all!
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It's Lovelace day!
See everyone here in Glasgow University Union later 😀
See everyone here in Glasgow University Union later 😀
April 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
It's Lovelace day!
See everyone here in Glasgow University Union later 😀
See everyone here in Glasgow University Union later 😀
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And this evening we had a social for those staying the night before, with human bingo and a quiz.
April 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
And this evening we had a social for those staying the night before, with human bingo and a quiz.
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Today we’ve been doing all the preparations for tomorrow: lots of bag packing and moving of boxes into our beautiful venue ready for the morning.
April 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Today we’ve been doing all the preparations for tomorrow: lots of bag packing and moving of boxes into our beautiful venue ready for the morning.
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The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium has finally made it to Glasgow! Amazing… | Matthew Barr
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium has finally made it to Glasgow! Amazing turnout tonight for the pre-conference social, with Colloquium founder Hannah Dee on quizmaster duties. Fantastic atmosphere in...
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April 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...