About
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research interests
I belong to the following research groups:
My current research interests are based within Computer Science Education and are focused upon the student perspective:
Organisational involvement:
Conference organisation:
- Conference chair for UKICER 2019 (UK & Ireland SIGCSE chapter conference)
- ITiCSE (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education)
- Database co-ordinator for ITiCSE 2018, Cyprus
- Program chair for ITiCSE 2016, Arequipa, Peru
- Conference chair for ITiCSE 2013, Canterbury
- Working Group Coordinator for ITiCSE 2007, Dundee
- Working Group Coordinator for ITiCSE 2005 , Lisbon
- Poster chair for ITiCSE 2001, Canterbury
- HE Academy
- Member of Computing sub-committee for HEA STEM annual conferences 2012, 2013 and 2014
- Co-chair HEA-ICS 10th Annual conference, August 2009
- HE Academy-ICS annual 1-day conferences on the teaching of programming:
- Programme chair for the second to the eleventh event 2001-2011
- Conference chair for the 1-day Sharing Good Ideas in CS Teaching and Learning Conference, London, April 2011
- Programme chair for the 1-day conference on the Assessment of Programming, Napier, September 2005
Invited talks:
Teaching
I currently teach Foundations of Computing (maths by another name!) and a module called "Computing in the Classroom" which allows final year students the opportunity to share their knowledge with people from local schools.
Professional
Member of ACM