Susan Sentance is a British computer scientist, educator and director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Computing Education Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

[9][10] Sentance studied artificial intelligence (AI) and information technology (IT) at the University of Edinburgh[10] where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1989[11] followed by a PhD in 1993 investigating intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) supervised by Helen Pain and Elisabet Engdahl.

[3] In 2014 Sentance joined King's College London as a lecturer in computing education.

[13][14] Sentance joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2018 as Chief Learning Officer where she oversees a gender disparity in computing program that seeks to improve the representation of girls in computer science classes.

[4] With Erik Barendsen and Carsten Schulte, she edited the book Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School.