[1] Fincher was an undergraduate student at the University of Kent, where she studied philosophy and computer science.
[7] She moved to the United States for her graduate studies, where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English[7] from Georgetown University.[when?]
Fincher leads the University of Kent Computing Education Group.
These programmes looked to identify best practise for computer science education and disseminate this information to the teaching community.
[11][12] Fincher was honoured by Ann Blandford for ‘making computer science education inclusive and effective’.