Looking back on 2020

Looking back on 2020

While we have been extremely fortunate in New Zealand where the global pandemic has been largely contained, this year has still been very difficult for many of us. Some of us were separated from our families, and the closed borders brought uncertainty of when we could...
Dr Kelly Blincoe awarded Marsden Fast-Start grant

Dr Kelly Blincoe awarded Marsden Fast-Start grant

Dr Kelly Blincoe has been awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant. These grants support early career researchers in New Zealand. This grant will enable Kelly to investigate methods to enable automated updates of software dependencies. She will be recruiting a PhD student...
Organising a virtual ICSME

Organising a virtual ICSME

Kelly Blincoe served as a Program Co-Chair of ICSME 2020, together with Zhenchang Xing from Australian National University. In this post, she shares some insights on the conference organization. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the conference was fully virtual, so...
Distinguished paper award at RE 2020

Distinguished paper award at RE 2020

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering was held in Zurich, but it was a hybrid event, allowing virtual participation. James Tizard presented our paper, “Voice of the Users: A Demographic Study of Software Feedback Behaviour.”...
Looking back on 2020

Our new hybrid way of working

Our new way of working in HASEL. After many virtual group meetings, we are lucky to be able to get back to campus and also still have the flexibility to work from home. We also said goodbye to Prof. Daniela Damian today who has been visiting the lab for the past five...