Lecia Barker conducts research in two areas. 1) Attracting, retaining, and advancing groups minoritized in computing. Her research focuses on social climate, identity/belonging, faculty adoption of teaching and curricular practices, and sustainable organizational change. She advocates changing social and educational environments so that all students can develop a sense of belonging, not on changing students so that they fit into unwelcome environments. She presents on how to get girls and women into computing education from high school through graduate education and how to retain them in the field. 2) Evaluating the use and understanding of instructional technologies. She has researched student perceptions and uses of classroom-captured video lectures; student and faculty computing in higher education; computer-assisted instruction for deaf children; and most recently, student, faculty, and administrators' perceptions of students' data privacy in learning management systems.
