Ms Casey Hopkins

Associate Professor

Computer Science

+44 (0) 1792 513742

c.l.hopkins@swansea.ac.uk

Basic Welsh Speaker

Office - 215
Second Floor
Computational Foundry
Bay Campus

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0640-7728

About

Casey Hopkins is an Associate Professor (teaching focused) in the Department Computer Science. She first joined the university in 2013 as a student, obtaining an MEng in Computing in 2017. Upon graduating she undertook a role as a software developer, before later returning as an academic member of staff. Her interests lie within education and broadening participation of computing.

Her current roles include Programme Director of the Applied Software Engineering Degree Apprenticeship and Lead of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre. As a teaching focused academic, she is always looking for ways to enhance teaching and learning at Swansea and sharing these ideas, not only to improve the experience for students but also for staff.

Working closely with the departmental outreach team at Technocamps, she represents the business arm (Institute of Coding in Wales) and works with local industries, developing new pathways into higher education and lifelong learning. As part of this role she has led the development and delivery of several digital micro-credentials on HEFCW/MEDR and SPF funded projects since 2020 also including schools outreach.

Currently she is undertaking an Educational Doctorate part time, focusing on the relation between Computer Science and Modern Foreign Languages and exploring the potential of adopting different teaching methods to broaden participation.

Areas Of Expertise

Computing Education
Computer Science Pedagogy
Programming
Software Engineering

Publications

Research Highlights

Hopkins, C. & Moller, F. (2024). Institute of Coding in Wales Digital Skills Bootcamps – Micro-Credentials: A Pilot Project. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computing Education PracticeACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3633053.3633055, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65243
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
Cerone, A., Roggenbach, M., Davenport, J., Hopkins, C., Farrell, M., Haveraaen, M., Moller, F., Körner, P., Krings, S., Ölveczky, P., Schlingloff, B., Shilov, N., & Zhumagambetov, R. (2021). Rooting Formal Methods Within Higher Education Curricula for Computer Science and Software Engineering — A White Paper. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 1-26). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60461
Hopkins, C., Moller, F., & Roberts, L. (2023). Institute of Coding in Wales Digital Skills Bootcamps - A Model for Stackable Micro-credentials. In Troy Astarte, Faron Moller, Keith Quille, Seán Russell (Ed.), UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing EducationACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611134, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611134

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

Hopkins, C. & Moller, F. (2024). Institute of Coding in Wales Digital Skills Bootcamps – Micro-Credentials: A Pilot Project. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computing Education PracticeACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3633053.3633055, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65243
Hopkins, C., Moller, F., & Roberts, L. (2023). Institute of Coding in Wales Digital Skills Bootcamps - A Model for Stackable Micro-credentials. In Troy Astarte, Faron Moller, Keith Quille, Seán Russell (Ed.), UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing EducationACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611134, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611134
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
Cerone, A., Roggenbach, M., Davenport, J., Hopkins, C., Farrell, M., Haveraaen, M., Moller, F., Körner, P., Krings, S., Ölveczky, P., Schlingloff, B., Shilov, N., & Zhumagambetov, R. (2021). Rooting Formal Methods Within Higher Education Curricula for Computer Science and Software Engineering — A White Paper. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 1-26). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71374-4_1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60461

Taught Modules

PMNM21 Research Innovation and Management

The growth of the personalised medicine industry and advances within medicine and engineering that have led to the emergence of nanomedicine, present exciting opportunities for the development of advanced therapeutics. However, the management of research and innovation from discovery through to the transition to clinical trial, present unique project management, regulatory and ethical challenges that must be considered to effectively develop new diagnostics and therapeutics. This module will take students through the development process for a novel nanomedicine, highlighting the project management, ethical and regulatory considerations at each stage. The module will also explore the challenges faced from an academic and industry perspective, as well as providing the opportunity for students to learn from industry leaders with direct experience of the research and innovation journey.