Fincher leads the
University of Kent Computing Education Group. Here she has led computing education projects, including the bootstrapping research in Computer Science Education series and the UK sharing practice project. These programmes looked to identify best practise for computer science education and disseminate this information to the teaching community. Beyond innovations in computing education, Fincher studies patterns and the development of patterns for
human–computer interaction. She created a
pattern library for
user interfaces for human–computer interactions.
Awards and honours Fincher was honoured by
Ann Blandford for ‘making computer science education inclusive and effective’. • 2004: Honorary Doctorate from
Antenor Orrego Private University • 2005:
National Teaching Fellowship by the
Higher Education Academy (HEA) • 2010:
Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education from the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (
SIGCSE) • 2018:
Suffrage Science award Selected publications Her publications •
The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research with Anthony V. Robins •
Programming Environments for Novices •
Computer science project work : principles and pragmatics == References ==