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  1. The relationship between dyslexia, autism, and academic outcomes: longitudinal analysis of population-level education and health data

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  2. Editorial – Expanding Horizons for Educational Research, Policy and Practice in Wales

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, November 2025, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  3. Golygyddol – Ehangu Gorwelion ar gyfer Ymchwil, Polisi ac Ymarfer Addysgol yng Nghymru

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, November 2025, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  4. The ‘roots/routes to fruit’ model: developing a ‘fruitful’ collaborative network across universities

    Article • Cogent Education, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  5. Children’s early care experiences and their educational attainment: a population data-linkage study in Wales

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  6. Editorial – Fostering Innovation in Educational Research and Practice in Wales

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, May 2025, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  7. Golygyddol – Meithrin Arloesedd mewn Ymchwil ac Ymarfer Addysgol yng Nghymru

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, May 2025, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  8. AI Agents and Agentic Systems: A Multi-Expert Analysis

    Article • Journal of Computer Information Systems, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  9. Sociodemographic trends in special educational needs identification in Wales

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, October 2024, Wiley

    Professor Tom Crick

  10. “Real impact”: Challenges and opportunities in bridging the gap between research and practice – Making a difference in industry, policy, and society

    Article • International Journal of Information Management, October 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Crispin R Coombs, Professor Tom Crick

  11. Editorial – Political Change, A Renewed Focus on Reform and Delivering on Wales’ Education Priorities

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, July 2024, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  12. Erthygl Olygyddol – Newid Gwleidyddol, Ffocws o’r Newydd ar Ddiwygio a Chyflawni Blaenoriaethau Addysg Cymru

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, July 2024, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  13. Embedding Technical, Personal and Professional Competencies in Computing Degree Programmes

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Tom Prickett, Professor Tom Crick

  14. Rethinking student teachers' professional learning in Wales: Promoting reflection‐in‐action

    Article • The Curriculum Journal, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Tom Crick

  15. The well-being and work-related stress of senior school leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland during COVID-19 “educational leadership crisis”: A cross-sectional descriptive study

    Article • PLOS One, April 2024, PLOS

    Professor Tom Crick

  16. Co-designing learning spaces with learners: Lessons from a Welsh primary school classroom

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, March 2024, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  17. Cyd-ddylunio mannau dysgu gyda dysgwyr: Gwersi o ystafell ddosbarth ysgol gynradd Gymraeg

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, March 2024, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  18. A Global Survey of Introductory Programming Courses

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, A/Professor Raina Mason, Brett A Becker

  19. Arguments for and Approaches to Computing Education in Undergraduate Computer Science Programmes

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ruth Anderson, Professor Tom Crick

  20. A Delphi Study to identify strategies to mitigate the adverse impact of COVID-19 on children under the age of five in Wales

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, December 2023, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  21. Editorial — Envisioning the Post-COVID “New Normal” for Education in Wales

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, December 2023, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  22. Teaching Students To Use Programming Error Messages

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, Brett A Becker, Swaroop Joshi

  23. Poster: Teaching Programming Competencies: A Role for Craft Computing?

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Tom Prickett, Professor Tom Crick

  24. Critical Reflections on the First Year of Computer Science in the New Curriculum for Wales

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  25. Poster: Embedding Dispositions in Peer Assessment for Software Teams

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Tom Prickett, Professor Tom Crick

  26. The Institute of Coding Accreditation Standard: Exploring the Use of a Professional Skills Framework to Address the UK Skills Gap

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Tom Prickett, Professor Tom Crick

  27. Disruptors in Educational Technology: A Futurespective Case Study of UK Computing Academics

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christina Vasiliou, Dr Tom Prickett, Professor Tom Crick

  28. The well-being and work-related stress of senior school leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional descriptive study

    Article • August 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Tom Crick

  29. Sustainable software engineering: Reflections on advances in research and practice

    Article • Information and Software Technology, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Crick

  30. Golygyddol: Cysyniadu Addysg yng Nghymru trwy Ddiwygio, Hunaniaeth, Iaith a Hanes

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, July 2023, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  31. Golygyddol: Cysyniadu Addysg yng Nghymru trwy Ddiwygio, Hunaniaeth, Iaith a Hanes

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, July 2023, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  32. Technocamps: Highlighting 20 Years of Transforming Digital Education in Wales

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  33. Considering Computing Education in Undergraduate Computer Science Programmes

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, Ruth Anderson

  34. Exploring Computing Students' Post-Pandemic Learning Preferences with Workshops: A UK Institutional Case Study

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christina Vasiliou, Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  35. Divergences in the framing of inclusive education across the UK: a four nations critical policy analysis

    Article • Educational Review, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  36. Using Skills Profiling to Enable Badges and Micro-Credentials to be Incorporated into Higher Education Courses

    Article • Journal of Interactive Media in Education, January 2023, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  37. Editorial – Education research in Wales, from Wales, and for Wales

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, December 2022, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  38. Golygyddol: Ymchwil addysg yng Nghymru, o Gymru, ac i Gymru

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, December 2022, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  39. Pre-COVID-19 pandemic health-related behaviours in children (2018–2020) and association with being tested for SARS-CoV-2 and testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (2020–2021): a retrospective cohort study using survey data linked with routine health data in ...

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2022, BMJ

    Professor Tom Crick

  40. "Does anyone even notice us?" COVID-19’s impact on academics’ well-being in a developing country

    Article • South African Journal of Higher Education, March 2022, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Tom Crick

  41. COVID-19 mitigation measures in primary schools and association with infection and school staff wellbeing: An observational survey linked with routine data in Wales, UK

    Article • PLOS One, February 2022, PLOS

    Professor Tom Crick

  42. Aspiring to include versus implicit ‘othering’: teachers' perceptions of inclusive education in Wales

    Article • British Journal of Special Education, February 2022, Wiley

    Professor Tom Crick

  43. Prior health-related behaviours in children (2014-2020) and association with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test during adolescence (2020-2021): a retrospective cohort study using survey data linked with routine health data in Wales, UK

    Article • January 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Tom Crick

  44. Teaching through a Global Pandemic

    Article • December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Celine Latulipe, John Hott, Professor Tom Crick

  45. Primary school staff perspectives of school closures due to COVID-19, experiences of schools reopening and recommendations for the future: A qualitative survey in Wales

    Article • PLOS One, December 2021, PLOS

    Professor Tom Crick

  46. Digital disruption in the time of COVID-19: learning technologists’ accounts of institutional barriers to online learning, teaching and assessment in UK universities

    Article • The International Journal for Academic Development, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  47. Inclusive Education in Wales: Interpreting Discourses of Values and Practice Using Critical Policy Analysis

    Article • ECNU Review of Education, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Crick

  48. ‘This can’t be the new norm’: academics’ perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis for the Australian university sector

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  49. COVID-19 mitigation measures in primary schools and association with infection and school staff wellbeing: an observational survey linked with routine data in Wales, UK

    Article • August 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Tom Crick

  50. The assignment and distribution of the dyslexia label: Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study to investigate the socio-demographic predictors of the dyslexia label in England and Wales

    Article • PLOS One, August 2021, PLOS

    Professor Tom Crick

  51. How Collaboration Can Address Digital Poverty

    Article • ITNOW, August 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Crick

  52. Editorial – Education as a national mission: the role of the Wales Journal of Education

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, July 2021, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  53. Golygyddol - Addysg fel cenhadaeth genedlaethol: rôl Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru

    Article • Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, July 2021, University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

    Professor Tom Crick

  54. ‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout

    Article • British Journal of Sociology of Education, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  55. Educational Landscapes During and After COVID-19

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Celine Latulipe, John Hott, Professor Tom Crick

  56. An Overview of the New Science & Technology Curriculum for Wales

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  57. A Preliminary Study Exploring the Impact of Learner Resilience under Enforced Online Delivery during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  58. Developing a Computer Science Education Community of Practice for Early-Career Academics in the UK

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  59. The International Impact of COVID-19 and “Emergency Remote Teaching” on Computer Science Education Practitioners

    Article • April 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  60. Towards a 21st Century Personalised Learning Skills Taxonomy

    Article • April 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  61. ‘The COVID-19 crisis is not the core problem’: experiences, challenges, and concerns of Irish academia during the pandemic

    Article • Irish Educational Studies, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  62. Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy

    Article • International Journal of Information Management, April 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Arpan Kumar Kar, Professor Tom Crick, Professor Crispin R Coombs

  63. Covid-19 and Digital Education: a Catalyst For Change?

    Article • ITNOW, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Crick

  64. Cybersecurity Education and Formal Methods

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  65. Primary school staff reflections on school closures due to COVID-19 and recommendations for the future: a national qualitative survey

    Article • November 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Tom Crick

  66. Overcoming the Challenges of Teaching Cybersecurity in UK Computer Science Degree Programmes

    Article • October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  67. COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration

    Article • Higher Education, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  68. Assessing the Value of Professional Body Accreditation of Computer Science Degree Programmes

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  69. Resilience and Effective Learning in First-Year Undergraduate Computer Science

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  70. What can scholars learn from Open Source software communities during pandemics

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Tom Crick

  71. The Institute of Coding: A University-Industry Collaboration to Address the UK’s Digital Skills Crisis

    Article • April 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  72. A tale of two 'opens': intersections between Free and Open Source Software and Open Scholarship

    Article • March 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Tom Crick, Mg. Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Professor Ksenija Bazdaric

  73. Repositioning BCS Degree Accreditation

    Article • ITNOW, February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Crick

  74. Curriculum leadership: a critical contributor to school and system improvement

    Article • School Leadership and Management, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  75. A UK Case Study on Cybersecurity Education and Accreditation

    Article • October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Tom Prickett

  76. Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing

    Article • Publications, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Tom Crick, Mr Andy Nobes, Dr. Bianca Kramer

  77. Co-design, evaluation and the Northern Ireland Innovation Lab

    Article • Public Money & Management, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  78. Ten myths around open scholarly publishing

    Article • March 2019, PeerJ

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr. Bianca Kramer

  79. Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development

    Article • January 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr. Jennifer Beamer , Mr Jeroen Bosman, Ms Gail P Clement

  80. Exploring synchronous, remote collaborative interaction between learners using multi-touch tables and video conferencing in UK primary schools

    Article • British Journal of Educational Technology, January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Tom Crick

  81. Electric Vehicle Mobility-as-a-Service: Exploring the “Tri-Opt” of Novel Private Transport Business Models

    Article • Journal of Urban Technology, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Crick

  82. Resolving display shape dependence issues on tabletops

    Article • Computational Visual Media, October 2018, Tsinghua University Press

    Professor Tom Crick

  83. A university-based model for supporting computer science curriculum reform

    Article • Journal of Computers in Education, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  84. Software sustainability: Research and practice from a software architecture viewpoint

    Article • Journal of Systems and Software, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Crick

  85. On average, a professional rugby union player is more likely than not to sustain a concussion after 25 matches

    Article • British Journal of Sports Medicine, March 2018, BMJ

    Professor Tom Crick

  86. Popularity and Geospatial Spread of Trends on Twitter: A Middle Eastern Case Study

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  87. Determining device position through minimal user input

    Article • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  88. Crick, Prof. Thomas, (born 8 Jan. 1981), Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, Cardiff Metropolitan University, since 2016

    Article • December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Crick

  89. A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review

    Article • F1000Research, November 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Lauren B Collister, Yehia Elkhatib, Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Mg. Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza

  90. Reproducibility in Research: Systems, Infrastructure, Culture

    Article • Journal of Open Research Software, November 2017, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Professor Tom Crick

  91. A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review

    Article • F1000Research, November 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Lauren B Collister, Professor Tom Crick, Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Mg. Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Professor Kyle E Niemeyer, Yehia Elkhatib

  92. A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review

    Article • F1000Research, July 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Mg. Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Dr Lauren B Collister, Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Damien Jacques, Paola Masuzzo, Professor Kyle E Niemeyer, Daniel S Katz, Bastian Greshake, Sebastien Renaut, Professor Tom Crick, Christina Pikas, Daniel O'Donnell, Yehia Elkhatib, Lillian Rigling, Devin Berg, Daniel Graziotin

  93. An Analysis of Introductory Programming Courses at UK Universities

    Article • The Art Science and Engineering of Programming, April 2017, Aspect-Oriented Software Association (AOSA)

    Professor Tom Crick

  94. Facilitating collaborative learning between two primary schools using large multi-touch devices

    Article • Journal of Computers in Education, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  95. Software Requirements Engineering in Digital Healthcare: A Case Study of the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children in the UK’s National Health Service

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  96. “Come Together!”: Interactions of Language Networks and Multilingual Communities on Twitter

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  97. Innovative Pedagogical Practices in the Craft of Computing

    Article • March 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  98. Incorporating Emotion and Personality-Based Analysis in User-Centered Modelling

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  99. Mass Surveillance in Cyberspace and the Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick, Dr Panagiotis Andriotis

  100. Whole-Life Environmental Impacts of ICT Use

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  101. CCTV as a Smart Sensor Network

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  102. Developing computational thinking through pattern recognition in early years education

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  103. Measuring UK crime gangs: a social network problem

    Article • Social Network Analysis and Mining, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  104. Smart data-harnessing for financial value in short-term hire electric car schemes

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  105. Technocamps

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  106. Using Interface Design to Develop Computational Thinking Skills

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  107. """"Share and Enjoy"""": Publishing Useful and Usable Scientific Models

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  108. Exploring UK crime networks

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  109. Measuring UK crime gangs

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Tom Crick

  110. Restart

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, June 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  111. The Smart City from a Public Value Perspective

    Article • January 2014, Atlantis Press

    Professor Tom Crick

  112. Changing Faces: Identifying Complex Behavioural Profiles

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  113. ‘The First Day of Summer’: Parsing Temporal Expressions with Distributed Semantics

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  114. Bringing computer science back into schools

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  115. R U :-) or :-( ? Character- vs. Word-Gram Feature Selection for Sentiment Classification of OSN Corpora

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  116. Grand challenges for the UK

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  117. Computing at school

    Article • November 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Tom Crick

  118. Engineering design optimization using services and workflows

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, May 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Crick

  119. Generating Optimal Code Using Answer Set Programming

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  120. TOAST: Applying Answer Set Programming to Superoptimisation

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  121. LAIMA: A Multi-agent Platform Using Ordered Choice Logic Programming

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Crick

  122. Preface

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Crick