Jacqueline Whalley

Jacqueline Louise Whalley is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in software engineering and computer science education.

Jacqueline Whalley
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Kent, Australian National University
Thesis	Synthetic studies towards the total synthesis of sordaricin (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Lew Mander
Academic work
Institutions	Auckland University of Technology

Academic career

Whalley trained as a chemist before concentrating on computer science and software engineering. She completed a Bachelor of Science at Massey University and a PhD titled Synthetic studies towards the total synthesis of sordaricin at the Australian National University in 1995. Her doctoral studies were supervised by Lew Mander, and involved making computer predictions of the outcome of Diels–Alder chemical reactions, after which she would test the predictions in the laboratory. Whalley undertook postdoctoral research at the University of St Andrews and Imperial College, working on positron emission tomography in medicinal chemistry for hormone-dependent cancers and neurological disease. Whalley completed a Master of Science with Distinction at the University of Kent in 2001, creating a molecular-level computer model of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for use in biomedical research. She joined the computing lab at the University of Kent, where she was the lead researcher on a European Union CRAFT Framework 6 grant developing a fisheries management system.

Whalley moved to Auckland University of Technology in 2004. From 2015 to 2015 she was the director of the Geoinformatics Research Centre, and from 2021 is co-director of the Software Engineering Research Lab. Whalley was promoted to full professor in 2023.

One of Whalley's research interests is the teaching of computer programming and software engineering. She has investigated how students learn to debug, and uses social science and psychology to study learning processes. Her research on assessment and learning taxonomies has affected how computer programming is taught to beginners in Australia and New Zealand.

Selected works

• Mike Lopez; Jacqueline Whalley; Phil Robbins; Raymond Lister (6 September 2008), Relationships between reading, tracing and writing skills in introductory programming, doi:10.1145/1404520.1404531, Wikidata Q124078353
• Stephen Brooks; Jacqueline L. Whalley (July 2008). "Multilayer hybrid visualizations to support 3D GIS". Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 32 (4): 278–292. doi:10.1016/J.COMPENVURBSYS.2007.11.001. ISSN 0198-9715. Wikidata Q124078352.
• Donovan H Parks; Michael Porter; Sylvia Churcher; Suwen Wang; Christian Blouin; Jacqueline Whalley; Stephen Brooks; Robert G Beiko (27 July 2009). "GenGIS: A geospatial information system for genomic data". Genome Research. 19 (10): 1896–1904. doi:10.1101/GR.095612.109. ISSN 1549-5469. PMC 2765287. PMID 19635847. Wikidata Q33487595.
• Judy Sheard; Angela Carbone; Raymond Lister; Beth Simon; Errol Thompson; Jacqueline L. Whalley (25 August 2008). "Going SOLO to assess novice programmers". SIGCSE bulletin. 40 (3): 209–213. doi:10.1145/1597849.1384328. ISSN 0097-8418. Wikidata Q114071380.
• Raymond Lister; Anders Berglund; Tony Clear; et al. (26 June 2006). "Research perspectives on the objects-early debate". SIGCSE bulletin. 38 (4): 146–165. doi:10.1145/1189136.1189183. ISSN 0097-8418. Wikidata Q124078354.
• Stephen Brooks; Jacqueline L. Whalley (July 2008). "Multilayer hybrid visualizations to support 3D GIS". Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 32 (4): 278–292. doi:10.1016/J.COMPENVURBSYS.2007.11.001. ISSN 0198-9715. Wikidata Q124078352.