Meet the team

Andrew is one of the team's training officers. He is responsible for creating and delivering digital skills courses and teaches the following courses:

• Audacity: Audio recording and editing
• Developing your Digital Skills
• Getting started with NVivo 
• Introduction to Reference Managers
• Making the Most of IT
• Managing Bibliographies with EndNote
• Media Hopper Create: Introduction
• Producing a Thesis or Dissertation using Word
• Subtitling for Media Creators

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Andy is one of the team's training officers and also manages the University's LinkedIn Learning online learning service. He is responsible for creating and delivering digital skills courses and teaches the following courses: 

• Building your profile with LinkedIn
• Canva: An introduction for beginners
• Developing your Digital Skills (staff)
• Introduction to LinkedIn Learning
• Making the Most of IT
• Media Hopper Create: Introduction
• Office 365 Essentials: 
  • Managing your emails and calendar with Outlook on the web
  • Notetaking made easy with OneNote online
  • Perfect Planning with Microsoft Planner
  • Simple cloud storage with OneDrive
• Producing a Thesis or Dissertation using Word

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Catherine is one of the team's training officers. She is responsible for creating and delivering digital skills courses and teaches on the following courses: 

• Developing your Digital Skills (students)
• EndNote for Managing References
• Introduction to BusinessObjects
• Making the Most of IT
• Producing a Thesis or Dissertation using Word

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Christina is one of the team's training officers. She is responsible for creating and delivering digital skills courses and teaches the following courses: 

• Developing your Digital Skills (students)
• Excel:
  • Excel Introduction
  • Basic Charts in Excel
  • Selected Excel Functions
  • Further Functions 
  • Basic Data Visualisations
• Making the Most of IT
• Photoshop Introduction

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Jonathan is responsible for professional programmes and is currently overseeing the development of the following areas:

• Digital Skills Specialists Edinburgh Award
• The University of Edinburgh CMALT Programme
• Digital Staff Induction for Professional Services Staff
• JISC Digital Capability Management
• Digital Skills Framework development

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Ricarda is the Training Coordinator (maternity cover) for the team, responsible for scheduling, promotion and general upkeep of the Digital Skills Programme. She also supports coordination of Learning Teaching and Web events on an ad hoc basis.

Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Ricarda was involved in the coordination, design and delivery of digital training resources, workshops and a framework. 

Riccardo is the team's SharePoint and Microsoft 365 trainer. He is responsible for creating and delivering digital skills courses.

Tess is the Training Consultant for the Web Publishing Platform Migration Project. In this role, she delivers both classroom and webinar training sessions for the University's new content management system, EdWeb 2. Tess is also responsible for creating and maintaining comprehensive support materials for EdWeb 2.

Before joining the University, Tess worked as a high school mathematics teacher in Edinburgh. In Australia, she served as a high school Literacy Coordinator and classroom teacher.

Tess holds a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney.