Marie Kendall-Waters
Digital Project Specialist (Digital Marketing and Design)
Marie is an experienced member of the CADI team with a wealth of experience in Learning Design, Digital Learning Development and Specialist Projects. Her background is in graphic design and digital marketing.
Marie joined the University of Portsmouth in 2007 as one of the first Faculty Online Course Developers, working in the Faculty of Technology and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and in later years as a Senior Educational Technologist for the eLearning Centre and Technology Enhanced Learning team under DCQE. Marie has worked on an array of creative projects for Faculties and Central services at UoP and has worked on the theme and course design, development and training of numerous VLE's throughout her time at UoP from WebCT, Blackboard (Victory) and Moodle.
Marie has project managed numerous high-profile projects since joining UoP. From 2009 - 2017 Marie led on the development and design of PrepUP website which was a project for pre-entry students and included the high-profile project: A Virtual Library. The site provided students with an offer of a place at Portsmouth with information and guidance on student life at university. The project is now the basis for student recruitment within Marketing at UoP.
Marie designed and developed 'A Vision of Britain Through Time' which was a project funded by the UK National Lottery.
More recently Marie developed and designed EXPLORE - which is an interactive resource to support academics in their decision making when it comes to choosing a digital tool and the pedagogical purpose and context.
Marie has a degree in Social Science with Social Policy which she studied as a distance learning student through The Open University. She gained her PgCert and PgDip in Digital Education (Online Learning) through the University of Edinburgh. Marie enjoyed the course so much that she was later employed by the course team at Edinburgh as a Postgraduate Research Associate.
Marie previously worked for Johnston Press PLC as a New Media Manager overseeing the New Media team and creative projects for the South. She specialised in the development of CMS built websites for local businesses as well as front-end design for The News website, created PPC ads, site animation and designed numerous printed publications.
She currently leads on the digital marketing for the CADI team such as the social media platforms and the development and design of the centre Drupal site.
Marie has a passion for learning, design and digital marketing. When she's not working, Marie loves spending time with her little family and going on adventures! She loves travelling, going to gigs and living by the sea!
Areas of interest:
- Website Design (Adobe CC, HTML, CSS)
- Print Based Design
- Learning Design (Instructional / Moodle best practise, pedagogy)
- Distance Learning
- VLE/CMS Theme Design and Development
- Wireframes, UX and UI
- Brand Stories and User Personas
- Accessibility
- Student Engagement
- Animation
- Social Media Management and Content Creation (Adobe CC, Canva)