Projects

I worked on the Teknikundervisning i studenternas sammanhang Ett ramverk fur pedagogisk kunskapsuppbyggnad och spridning (or Education in Technology within the student context: A framework for gathering, processing and disseminating pedagogical knowledge) project, funded by the Swedish council for the renewal of higher education. As part of this I ran Stepping Stones course, designed to bring practitioners together to investigate engineering education. Robin Adams, from Purdue University worked on this with me.
Together with Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington Tacoma, I devised a model for examining and documenting teaching called the Disciplinary Commons. Josh and I ran parallel instantiations of this in 2005/6.
I ran (jointly, with Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington Tacoma and Marian Petre, Open University ) two NSF-funded projects, Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education (DUE-0122560) 2002 & 2003 and Scaffolding Research in Computer Science Education (DUE-0243242). 2003 and 2004.
I ran similar workshops in 2004 and 2005, organised by Anthony Robins from the University of Otago in New Zealand and Raymond Lister from the University of Technology, Sydney. See Building Research in Australasian Computing Education.
There are more details of these projects here. Computer Science Education Research, the book I edited with Marian Petre, was published by Routledge Falmer in March 2004.
I was Moderator of the Computer Science Discipline Network (1996-2000), and was project manager for Project EPCoS (1997-2000) (Effective Projectwork in Computer Science) which was funded by HEFCE's Fund for Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL). The book resulting from this project, Computer Science Project Work: Principles and Pragmatics was published by Springer Verlag (January 2001).

Service activities

I was a member of the ACM Education Council 2006-2009
I served as Secretary to the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) for two terms, 2001-2007
I was a founding member of the Steering Group of the Conference of Heads and Professors of Computing Learning Development Group, serving from 1997-2001.
I was Chair of the Networks and Events Committee of SEDA (the Staff and Educational Development Association) from 1998-2002.
Together with Co-chairs Richard Anderson from the University of Washington, Seattle and Mark Guzidal from Georgia Tech, I organised and ran the first three ACM-sponsored International Computing Education Research (ICER) workshops:
- Seattle, 1st and 2nd October 2005.
- Canterbury, 9th and 10th September 2006
- Atlanta, 15th and 16th September 2007
I was Technial Chair for HCI 2004, the 18th Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, at Leeds Metropolitan University, 8th-12th September 2004
I organisd the Doctoral Consortium for HCI 2002 the 16th British HCI Group Annual Conference, and was a member of the Educators' Symposium Committe for OOPSLA 2002.
I have been involved with the ACM-sponsored ITiCSE conferences (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education). I served as Poster Chair for the 1999 conference in Krakow, as Program Co-chair for the 2000 conference in Helsinki and was Conference Co-chair in 2001 when ITiCSE came to Canterbury.
I have been a member of many Program Committees: ACE 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008 (Australasian Computing Education Conference), PPIG (15th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group), ICREE (International Conference for Research into Engineering Education) 2008.

Keynotes

I have been privileged to have been invited to give keynote presentations at:

The 10th Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) conference, Paris 3rd-8th July 2009
The 5th Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education (Kolin Kolistelut) 17th-20th November 2005
I was invited (by the students) to give a keynote talk at the Research Student Colloquium at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 9 March 2005
The 2nd Peruvian Workshop of Education in Computation at Antenor Orrego University, Trujillo, Peru 9th-13th November 2004
The 16th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland, 5th-7th April 2004
The 6th Australasian Computing Education Conference ACE 2004 18th-22nd January 2004 (ACE 2004 was part of Australasian Computer Science Week)
The 15th Annual NACCQ Conference in New Zealand, 3rd-5th July 2002.

External Evaluation

I was external evaluator for two FDTL Phase 3 projects: PBLE (Project Based Learning in Engineering) and Project Squared
I am external examiner for the course M150 at the Open University at the University of Abertay, Dundee and at Edinburgh Napier University