Publications

My publications are available from the Computer Science department publications repository.

Research Interests

I belong to the following research groups:

• Computing Education Group

My current research interests are based within Computer Science Education and are focused upon the student perspective:

• Differentiation within the CS classroom
  • Enthusing over-performing students
  • Is dyscalculia a barrier to learning programming?
• Enticing more students into CS
• Gender issues within CS
  • Is there a discernible difference between the code produced by male and female students?
  • What actually attracts female students to apply for a Computer Science degree?
• Assessment issues within CS
  • The behavioural models students adopt
  • Student attitudes towards plagiarism

Organisational involvement:

• Member of CPHC Learning development group
• Chair of the HEA-ICS Programming Special Interest Group
• Member of the SIGCSE Committee on Expanding the Women-in-Computing Community
• Member of the international board of editors for the Journal of Information Technology Education

Conference organisation:

• Co-chair HEA-ICS 10th Annual conference, August 2009
• Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education conferences:
  • Working Group Coordinator for ITiCSE 2007, Dundee
  • Working Group Coordinator for ITiCSE 2005 , Lisbon
  • Poster chair for ITiCSE 2001, Canterbury
• HE Academy-ICS annual 1-day conferences on the teaching of programming:
  • Programme chair for the tenth event, Easter 2010
  • Programme chair for the ninth event, Bath, April 2009
  • Programme chair for the eigth event, Glasgow, March 2008
  • Programme chair and host for seventh event, Canterbury, April 2007
  • Programme chair for the sixth event, Westminster, April 2006
  • Programme chair for the fifth event, Oxford Brookes, April 2005
  • Programme chair for the fourth event, Birmingham, March 2004
  • Programme chair for the third event, Huddersfield, April 2003
  • Programme chair for the second event, Wolverhampton, March 2002
• Programme chair for the 1-day conference on the Assessment of Programming, Napier, September 2005

Invited talks:

• Invited speaker at the 1-day workshop on Plagiarism, Edinburgh, May 2006
• Invited speaker at the 1-day workshop on Student Retention, Sussex, September 2004
• Invited speaker at the 1-day conference on the use of CAA in ICS Education, Brighton, July 2003
• Invited speaker at the first HEA-ICS 1-day conference on the teaching of programming, Leeds, March 2001

Other stuff

• Studying at University Talk 2009
• Value Lite 2009