James Harland

Associate Professor James Harland has over 20 years' experience in research and teaching. He is known internationally for his work on intelligent agent systems, automated reasoning, logic programming and computer science education research. Together with colleagues from RMIT and others from UTS, QUT, Monash and Newcastle, he was a key contributor to the BABELnot project, funded by a grant from the OLT, from 2011 to 2013, which developed an epistemology of competency in computer programming. In 2007, James received a Carrick (now OLT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for his work on teaching Computing Theory, which many students find conceptually difficult. His experience in supervising PhD students from a variety of non-English-speaking backgrounds (including Vietnam, Serbia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Mexico), as well as the assessment of PhD theses and selection of students for PhD study, is particularly relevant to this project.