Kate Farrell
Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning at the University of Edinburgh
Kate Farrell works on the Data Education in Schools project developing data science and data literacy lessons, resources and professional learning for Primary and Secondary schools in Scotland. She also worked with the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) to create a national Secondary school qualification in Data Science. Previously she has advised on the new Computing Science outcomes in the Scotland’s national curriculum, written a guide for Primary and Early Years on teaching the new CS outcomes and developed new badge activities in computational thinking with Girl Guiding UK. Kate Farrell has been an educator in mainstream and special schools, as well as lecturing in further and higher education.