Thom Kunkeler
PhD student at Department of Information Technology; Vi3; Computing Education Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 54 02
- E-mail:
- thom.kunkeler@it.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-6640-1016
Short presentation
Thom is a PhD student in Computing Education Research. His research is focused on capital development in the computing classroom, aiming to understand why people engage with computing, and what they aspire to do with it. His goal is to inspire more young people, in particular those from underserved communities, to participate in computing education. For a full overview of his work, see his personal website.
Media
An overview of Thom's recorded seminars
Publications
Recent publications
Computing Education in Sweden: Unequal Participation in a Changing Field
Part of ITiCSE 2025, p. 128-133, 2025
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Exploring Capital and Privilege in Computing and Engineering Education through Gamification
Part of 2024 IEEE FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, FIE, 2024
WIP: Social Capital and Women in Computing - A Comparative Study Between Sweden and Bangladesh
Part of 2024 IEEE FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, FIE, 2024
Part of UKICER '24, 2024
Capital in Computing Education: Investigating Factors Underlying Participation
Part of Proceedings of the 2024 Conference Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, vol 1, ITICSE 2024, p. 129-135, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
From Science to Computing: A Study of Capital Among Bioinformatics Students
Part of IEEE Transactions on Education, p. 202-208, 2024
Comprehensive licentiate thesis
Conference papers
Computing Education in Sweden: Unequal Participation in a Changing Field
Part of ITiCSE 2025, p. 128-133, 2025
- DOI for Computing Education in Sweden: Unequal Participation in a Changing Field
- Download full text (pdf) of Computing Education in Sweden: Unequal Participation in a Changing Field
Exploring Capital and Privilege in Computing and Engineering Education through Gamification
Part of 2024 IEEE FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, FIE, 2024
WIP: Social Capital and Women in Computing - A Comparative Study Between Sweden and Bangladesh
Part of 2024 IEEE FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, FIE, 2024
Part of UKICER '24, 2024
Capital in Computing Education: Investigating Factors Underlying Participation
Part of Proceedings of the 2024 Conference Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, vol 1, ITICSE 2024, p. 129-135, 2024
- DOI for Capital in Computing Education: Investigating Factors Underlying Participation
- Download full text (pdf) of Capital in Computing Education: Investigating Factors Underlying Participation
Modeling Women's Elective Choices in Computing
Part of ITiCSE-WGR '23, p. 196-226, 2023
- DOI for Modeling Women's Elective Choices in Computing
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A Methodology for Investigating Women's Module Choices in Computer Science
Part of ITiCSE 2023, p. 569-570, 2023
Part of 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), p. 1-5, 2022
Inequality in Computing Education through the lens of Social Capital: a Methodology
Part of Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research, 2022
Computing skills, beliefs and identities in young people from underserved communities
Part of 2021 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 2021