The 2025 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium was on April 16th at the University of Glasgow. You can see our Abstract book and programme online.
We were generously supported by sponsorship and by University support. You can find out more about our supporters on the University Supporters page.
Various news articles and blogs have been written about the event and we’ll collect them here:
- BCS have put out a nice report on the day about the overall event: https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/dare-always-dare-lovelace-colloquium-2025/
- Southampton Solent University wrote an article about their students’ successes: https://students.solent.ac.uk/media-hub/news/solent-students-celebrate-success-at-the-british-computing-society-women-lovelace-colloquium-2025
- Our deputy chair wrote a blog post about the organiser’s experience https://www.hannahdee.wales/blog/?p=2005
- The UWE Bristol Newsletter features a story about their students: https://uwebristol.newsweaver.com/a3migbpvuu/ar58mkg2q8czkh8vu5lblh?lang=en&a=2&p=13775746&t=6188154
- LSBU have an article about their students: https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/msc-graduate-wins-national-computing-research-prize
- Aberystwyth Computer Science inclusion site has a short piece about their students: https://inclusion.dcs.aber.ac.uk/2025/05/02/bcswomen-lovelace-colloquium/
Venues
We held an informal social the night of the 15th April in the Queen Margaret student union.
Queen Margaret Union – our social venue
The main venue of the conference, on 16th April, was Glasgow University Union. This held our talks, in the Debates Chamber, and our posters, spread across three other rooms.
The view from the stage in the GUU debates chamber
Programme
Poster winners
Well done to everyone who presented posters at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium yesterday. They were all great!
First year
- First prize in the first year contest goes to Rose Gowen of Durham University for The Future of Culture in a Digital World
- Second prize in the first year contest goes to Irene Peleteiro Paniagua of University of Warwick for Guilt within video games
Second year
- First prize in the second year contest goes to Isabella Mullings Wong of University of Bath for Edgar Allan Faux: Testing the limits of computational creativity through response to artificially-generated poetry
- Second prize in the second year contest goes to Alexandra Loh of University of Cambridge for Data Integrity Detection in Wearable IoT Devices for Cardiac Monitoring
Final year
- First prize in the final year contest goes to Sakshi Paygude of Keele University for CarbonPulse: Turning Everyday Activities into Sustainable Action
- Second prize in the final year contest goes to Nurul Mohamad of University of Birmingham for Designing for Everyone – Integrating Accessibility into UI Design
MSc
- First prize in the MSc contest goes to Caitlin Haddow of University of Bath for Repurposing Agricultural Dust for Smoke Removal
- Joint second prize in the MSc contest goes to Deborah Adedigba of Southampton Solent University for Automated Skin Lesion Analysis for Early Melanoma Detection: A Computer Vision Approach
- Joint second prize in the MSc contest goes to Sarah Tucker of London South Bank University for Wall Street Through A Neural Lens: Forecasting NASDAQ and NYSE Stock Price with Residual Network 2D CNN Model
People’s choice
- First prize in the People’s Choice goes to Saxon Partridge-Smith of Nottingham Trent University for Are we forgetting how to remember?
- Second prize in the People’s Choice goes to Rabia Qamar of the University of the West of Scotland Enhancing Aviation Sustainability Through Machine Learning-Based Turbojet EGT Prediction
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