Laura Larke (larke@mit.edu)

Laura Larke is a social theorist and qualitative researcher interested in how power is enacted and experienced at the intersection of computer science, education policy, and classroom practice. She is currently working on the CSforALL: PACE and INSPIRE: CS-AI projects at MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, supporting the improvement of equity in computer science education in Massachusetts and beyond. She earned her DPhil in Education and MSc in Education (Learning & Technology) from the University of Oxford and her BA in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her doctoral research focused on how local, professional cultures and power relationships impacted the way that England’s new national computing curriculum was implemented in schools.