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Dr Jordan Allison is a senior lecturer in Computer Science within the School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Educational Computing Research, and he is the author of many journal articles and conference publications regarding educational computing research. Jordan is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a Professional Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (MACM), and serves on the committee of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Branch of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Chartered Institute for IT. His research primarily focuses on educational computing, computing education pedagogy, curriculum design and teacher development.
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