I am Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre . Since gaining a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Education in 1993, I have worked as a secondary teacher, teacher trainer, university lecturer and researcher. I played a leading role in the DfE-funded National Centre for Computing Education, particularly around the development of the Teach Computing Curriculum, Isaac Computer Science, and online teacher professional development courses. I was also the strategic lead (PI) for the £2m DfE-funded Gender Balance in Computing research programme, for which we published results in 2022. In my own research, I developed an approach to structuring programming lessons called PRIMM (Predict-Run-Investigate-Modify-Make), which has proved useful to many teachers around the UK and beyond.
Research
My research interests are:
- Computing education for K-12 (school-aged children)
- Teaching and learning of programming
- Making computing inclusive and accessible to all
- AI education for young people
- Teacher professional development for computing
I am interested in supervising PhD students in these areas.
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