 Dr.Catherine Lang
PhD, MEd, GDEd(CompEd), BEd
Book
Lang, C., (2010). Why IT rarely enters
students' schematic repertoire of future careers: a
gendered analysis of student course and career
choices in the 21st Century). Germany
: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Peer-reviewed Book
Chapter
Lang, C., & McKay, J. (2006). 'Australian IT
enrolment trends and model of contributing factors'.
In E. Trauth (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Gender and
IT (pp. 50-56). Hershey, PA: Idea Group
Reference.
Peer-reviewed Journal
Articles
Lang, C
(2010) 'Happenstance and Compromise: a
gendered analysis of students' computing degree
course selection' Computer Science Education
20(4) December 2010
Craig, A. Lang, C.
(2010) 'International Collaboration for Women in IT:
How to avoid reinventing the wheel' Issues in
Informing Science and Information Technology (7),
329-338
Lang, C.,
Meyer, D., Niner, S. , McKay, J., & Lewis, S.
(2009). 'The impact of
gender and pedagogical factors on female student
pass rates'. Communications of the Association
for Information Systems. Available at:
http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol25/iss1/28
Craig, A.,
Lang, C., & Fisher, J. (2008). 'Twenty years
of Girls into Computing Days: Has it been worth the
effort?' Journal of IT Education (7), 339-353
Lang, C. (2007).
'Twenty-first century Australian women in IT:
Exercising the power of choice'. Computer Science
Education, 17(3), 215-226.
Lewis, S., & Lang, C. (2007). 'An
inconvenient truth: The invisibility of women in
IT'. Australasian Journal of Information Systems,
15(1), 59-76.
Lang, C. (2003). 'Gender
and the geek factor: Why don't women do IT?'
Traffic, 3, 79-91.
Lang, C. (2002) 'Tertiary
computing course selection: the impact of
mathematics anxiety on female decision making'.
AJET, 2002, 18(3), 341-358
Peer-reviewed
Conference Papers
Lang, C.
& Buzwell, S. (2010) 'Research skills are vital in
all facets of life': Research perceptions,
expectations, and experiences of undergraduate
students. Reshaping Higher Education, HERDSA2010
Melbourne, Australia 6-9 July (paper accepted)
Lang, C.,
Craig, A. Fisher, J. & Forgasz, H. (2010)'Creating
Digital Divas – Scaffolding Perception Change
Through Secondary School and University Alliances'
The 15th Annual Conference on
Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
Education, ITiCSE 2010. Bilkent, Ankara Turkey,
June 26-30 (paper accepted)
Carter, J., Jenkins, T., Tymann,
P, Fraser, K., Kurkovsky, S., Lang, C.,
Beheshti, M. (2009). 'Participation rate in CS: One
international issue of multiplicity of national
ones?' Higher Education Academy Information and
Computer Sciences 10th Annual Conference.
University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. 25th
– 27th August.
Craig, A., Fisher, J., & Lang, C. (2007).
'ICT and girls: The need for a large scale
intervention programme'. In Proceedings of
the 18th Australasian Conference on Information
Systems. (pp. 761 - 769). Toowoomba, Qld,
Australia, 5-7 December.
Lang, C., McKay, J., & Lewis, S. (2007).
'Seven factors that influence ICT
student achievement'. In Proceedings of the 12th
Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in
Computer Science Education. Dundee, Scotland,
25-27 June.
Lang, C., Lewis, S. & McKay, J. (2006).
'Declining popularity increases declining diversity:
Extending the discourse of the discipline. In
Proceedings of 17th Australasian Conference on
Information Systems. Adelaide, SA, 6-8 December.
Lewis, S., McKay, J. & Lang,
C. (2006).
'Women ICT students: the paradox of invisibility and
visibility'. In Proceedings of Australian Women
in IT Conference. Adelaide, SA, 4-5 December.
Lewis, S., McKay, J. & Lang,
C. (2006).
'The Next Wave of Gender Projects in IT Curriculum
and Teaching at Universities'. In Proceedings of
the Eighth Australasian Computing Education
Conference (ACE2006). Hobart, Tas, Australia,
January: Published as Conferences in Research in
Practice in Information Technology, 52,
135-142.
Lang, C. (2005). 'The success stories: Girls
who went against the trend and chose to study IT
degree courses'. In Proceedings of the Women in
Computing Conference. Greenwich, UK, July.
Lang, C. & Robbie, D. (2005). 'A compulsory
IT Transition subject experience: Zero credit points
leads to zero future'. In Proceedings of the Good
Practice in Practice Conference. Wagga Wagga,
NSW, Australia, September.
McKay, J, Lewis, S. & Lang,
C. (2005).
'Geeks, Girls and IT Courses: Patterns of
Participation'. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Informatics Education
Research. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Lang, C. & Hede, T. (2004). 'Gender & IT:
Do stereotypes persist?' In Proceedings of Human
Perspectives in the Internet Society Culture. Southhampton, UK.
Lang, C. (2003). 'Flaws and gaps in the
women in computing literature'. In Proceedings of
the Australian Women in IT Conference. Hobart, Tas,
Australia.
Lang, C. (2003) 'A
critical review of student change and development
theories' ICHED conference, University of
Aviero, Portugal.
Lang, C.. (2002) 'Addressing
the transition needs of coursework post-graduate
students' The sixth Pacific Rim-First Year in Higher
Education Conference: Changing Agendas. University
of Canterbury & Queensland University of Technology,
Christchurch, New Zealand.
Lang, C. Thurairasa,
S. & Farrell, G. (2002) 'Implementing
a computer training package to accommodate an
increasingly computer literate cohort.'
ASCILITE Conference, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand.
Other Publications
Fisher, J. Lang, C., Forgasz, H. Craig,
A. (2009) 'Digital Divas: working to change
students' perceptions about ICT courses and careers”
Curriculum Leadership Journal, Vol 7, Issue 31, 25
September.
Lang, C, Fisher, J Craig A (2007)
'Digital Divas: Putting the 'Wow' back into IT for
girls. The Brentwood Secondary School Trial” Report
to Victorian ICT for Women Board.
Fisher, J., Lang, C., Craig A., Forgasz,
H (2007) Report on the effectiveness of
'Girls Only' computer clubs in Australia,
http://www.vicictforwomen.com.au
Lang, C. (2006) 'Why a mentoring program
is needed for women in ICT” iNFONET, Volume 16
Number 3 p. 14-16.
Lang C. (2002) 'Computing
the gender balance' - review of Margolis
& Fisher's 'Unlocking the clubhouse" published in
Campus Review, April 2002, and
The Age Newspaper, Melbourne (shorter version)
May 02.
Other Conference
Presentations:
Lang, C. & Lee, Nicolette (2010) ISSOTL conference
poster Liverpool November.
Crow, A. Lang, C. George, A. (2009) Digital
Divas @ Brentwood. Victorian IT Teachers Association
Conference, Melbourne, Victoria November
Lang, C. Egan, M.A. Peters J.
(2009) Multi-level International programs working to
change perceptions about IT courses and careers.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,
Tucson, Arizona. Sept. 30 – Oct 3.
Lang, C. Crow, A. George, A. (2008)
Student-centred ICT electives for Girls using Web
2.0 technologies Victorian IT Teachers Association
Conference, Melbourne, Victoria November
Lang, C. Egan, M.A. Peters J. Ayfer, R.
Ara, J. (2008) An international perspective on
successful programs to attract women to ICT
presented by ACM-W Ambassadors Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing, Keystone,
Colorado Oct 1-4..
Corneliussen, H. Ismail, R. Lang, C. McGrath-Cohoon,
J. & Munder, I. (2005)
Teaching Computer Science in Higher
Education, a cross-cultural approximation, Panel,
Women in Computing Conference Greenwich, UK, Jul.05.
Lang, C. Lewis, S. & McKay, J. (2005) IT
courses: the re-emergence of IT as a 'boys' subject
area. VITTA Conference, Melbourne, Nov.05.
Lang C. (2001)
Transition: females & computing - a double whammy?
Poster, 14th International conference on the First
Year Experience, Hawaii, Jul.01.
Switching Girls On To Be Digital Divas
– Swinburne media release.
11 February 2011
Digital Divas in fashion
– The Herald Sun, Learn, Tue Oct 14, 2008
p. 59
No boys allowed –
Utimes, September 2008 p.5
Help! My computer science
crashed – The Age, March 13, 2007
ACS drops goddess dates –The
Australian, July 11 2006
Getting girls to go geek
The Age, Education Section, Monday May 15 2006
IT not for women? A
'mythtaken' belief Swinburne News, Winter
2006
Women decide IT's a boy
thing The Australian 1 Feb 06
The next wave
Campus Review 8 Feb 2006
Skills the message for IT
medium - Profile The Age, November
2005
Computing the gender balance
Campus Review, April 2002,
US University balances
the genders in computer studies The Age 14
May 2002
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
MACS
Australian Computer Society
MACM
Association of Computer Machinery (USA)
ACM-W ACM –
Women's Committee – Australian Ambassador
2005-2010
HERDSA Higher
Education Research Association – Victorian Branch
member 2010
VicWIC
Victorian Women in Computing network
VicICT4W Victorian
ICT for Women Network - Board Member ex-Officio
Working With Children Check
Card Number: 01015639-01 Valid Until 02/05/2013
Mentor - Given the Chance:
Refugee Employment & Education Pathways Program 2009
Adult Literacy Tutor – Outer
Easter Learning Program 2010
PhD,
University of Melbourne.
Thesis Title:
Factors that shape student
decision-making related to IT
study and career choices: a
gendered analysis.
Thesis is
available on Digital Thesis
repository at:
http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00004306/
Master of Education,
Monash University
Thesis
Abstract: "Factors accounting for the gender imbalance in computing
degree enrolments"
Email: clang@swin.edu.au
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