Staff Profile
I received my MComp (Hons) Computer Science with Security and Resilience from Newcastle University in 2013. I joined the school in 2014 as a Transition Officer supporting stage one students with the transition into university life. I am now a lecturer, teaching UG and PG students, I also chair the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee for the school .
I also have a role in the SAgE faculty as Gender Champion.
I am also studying a part time PhD in gender bias in computing tools and education in the Teaching Innovation Group and being supervised by Dr Marie Devlin.
I am the Stage 3 co-ordinator.
I teach on the following modules in the academic year:
- CSC1032 - Computer Systems Design and Architectures
- CSC3422 - Website Construction and Management (Server-side)
- CSC8005 - Software Engineering Team Project
I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in the following themes:
- Equality and Diversity in Computing
- Computing Education
- Web Technologies
My research area is computing education, with a particular focus on equality and diversity.
- Heels L, Devlin M. Investigating the Role Choice of Female Students in a Software Engineering Team Project. In: CEP '19: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice. 2019, Durham, United Kingdom: ACM.
- Marshall L, Heels L, Riddle S. Developing assessment literacy in Stage One BsC Computing Students. In: HEA Transforming Assessment in Higher Education Symposium: Assessment literacy. 2017, HEA, York, UK: HEA.
- Devlin M, Heels L, Marshall LF. It's the transition that's troublesome. In: HEA STEM Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. 2014, Edinburgh, UK.
- Marshall L, Heels L. Brief Encounters. In: CEP 2020: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice. 2020, Durham: ACM.
- Barnes J, Colquhoun J, Devlin M, Heels L, Lord P, Marshall L, Napier C, Solaiman E, Speirs N, Talbot L, Ushaw G, Witty C. Designing a Portfolio-Oriented Curriculum using Problem Based Learning. In: CEP 2020: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice. 2020, Durham, United Kingdom: ACM.