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Chris Phillips

Emeritus Professor · School of Computing

Newcastle University · United Kingdom
Pedagogic researchActive learningComputing educationEngineering educationCollaborative learning

About

Chris joined Newcastle in 1984 after working at Hull and Liverpool universities, where he gained his BSc, MSc and PhD. His background is as a numerical analyst/computational scientist. He is currently based in the School of Computing Science and holds an appointment as SAgE Faculty Director of Diversity. He has extensive experience leading TEMPUS/Erasmus programmes and is a Chartered IT Professional and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Education

  • BSc, University of Liverpool
  • MSc, University of Liverpool
  • PhD, University of Liverpool

Selected publications

  • Phillips C, Devlin M. Helping Students Understand Programming through Active Learning.
  • Devlin M, Phillips C. Assessing Competency in Undergraduate Software Engineering Teams.
  • Starov O, Kharchenko V, Sklyar V, Phillips C. Hacking the innovations with university-industry hackathons.
  • Kharchenko V, Sklyar V, Gorbenko A, Phillips C. Green Computing and communications in critical application domains: challenges and solutions.
  • Boyarchuk A, Kharchenko V, Phillips C. National network of centres of innovative academia-industry handshaking: from critical computing to safety engineering.
  • Sumtsova OV, Aikina TY, Bolsunovskaya LM, Phillips C, Zubkova OM, Mitchell PJ. Collaborative learning at engineering universities: Benefits and challenges.
  • Bolsunovskaya LM, Kemerova NS, Phillips C. Educational technology of resource-efficient language training of mining engineers.
  • Kharchenko V, Illiashenko O, Boyarchuk A, Sklyar V, Phillips C. Emerging curriculum for industry and human applications in Internet of Things.
  • Devlin M, Marshall LF, Phillips C. Fair Assessment of Contribution and Process In Student Team Projects.
  • Devlin M, Marshall LF, Phillips C. Fair Assessment of Contribution and Process in Student Team Projects.

Data verified 9/6/2026Source

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