Andrew Kirk

Digital Skills Trainer

Biography

Background

Andrew joined the Digital Skills and Training Team in 2017.

He develops and delivers training courses for staff and students, supervises student trainers and is a mentor for the Digital Skills Specialist Edinburgh Award.

Andrew delivers training on a wide variety of skills, with a focus on qualitative data analysis, reference management, video and audio editing and document preparation. A qualified librarian, before joining the Digital Skills and Training Team he worked in libraries in Scotland and Ireland and in a television newsroom.

 

Qualifications

MSc Information and Library Studies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

MA (Hons) English (University of Glasgow)

Responsibilities & affiliations

Courses:

  • Getting started with NVivo - qualitative data analysis software

  • Audacity: audio recording and editing
  • MediaHopper Create: introduction
  • Producing a thesis or dissertation in Word

  • Introduction to reference managers

  • Managing bibliographies with EndNote

  • Subtitling for media creators

  • Developing your digital skills for students workshop
  • Introduction to VRS
  • Making the most of IT
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