Joshua G. Lock | King's College London

About Me

I am a (part-time) Ph.D. student at King’s College London working in the King’s Programming Education Technologies (K-PET) Group and King’s Computing Education Research Centre (CERC) where I am co-supervised by Professor Michael Kölling and Dr Neil Brown.

My research aims to build on the frame-based editing paradigm to design and implement a novel programming system for people who use screen readers as their primary means of accessing a computer.

I work in industry as a software engineer with almost 20 years’ experience working on open source projects, commercial products, and IT systems—including build systems, operating system user experience, and data systems.

Research Interests

Programming Education
IDE and Programming Tool Design
Human Computer Interaction
Accessibility

News

[Mar. 2025] Created a simple tool to track publishing deadlines for computing education research conferences: Computing Education Research (CER) Deadlines.
[Oct. 2024] I joined the Programming Education Tools Group at King’s College London as a part-time PhD student. I am no longer an “armchair academic”.