Sally Fincher

Sally A. Fincher (born 1959) She was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018 the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education in 2010 She moved to the United States for her graduate studies, where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English 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