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About Me

I am a (part-time) PhD student at King’s College London, studying 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.

When not studying and researching I work in industry as a software engineer.

Research Interests

• Computing Education
• IDE and Programming Tool Design
• Human Computer Interaction
• Accessibility

News

• 📜 [Oct. 2025] Our paper 'Programming Education for Blind and Low Vision Users: Beyond Reading the Screen' (Joshua Lock, Neil Brown, Michael Kölling) was accepted at Koli Calling 2025


• 🏗️ [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'.

Publications

1. 📜 Programming Education for Blind and Low Vision Users: Beyond Reading the Screen

   Joshua G. Lock, Neil. C. C. Brown, Michael Kölling

   25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

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2. 📜 A Programming System for Blind and Low-Vision Novice Programmers

   Joshua G. Lock

   Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Doctoral Consortium, 2025

   PDF BibTex Doctoral Consortium

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