Subject to Change: A Computing Education Research Journey

The Computing discipline evolves constantly and therefore so does the environment where we conduct Computing Education Research (CER). Sometimes the terrain can be quite perilous, but you have to persist because ours is a subject that needs to change, especially pedagogically. In this talk I give a brief overview of my journey to become a researcher in Computing Education and outline some of the work I have done at Newcastle and its impact. I give a brief overview of some of the funded projects I became involved in and how my interest in Computing Education evolved into the Educational Practice In Computing research group at Newcastle (EPiC). I give some tips and advice to people new to Computing Education Research, based on my experience of navigating the landscape over the years (without a map), and then outline my next steps.