Dear All,

Thank you for all your work this year, it’s been a roller -coaster.

It was lovely to see you all at the LTW all-staff meeting on Monday. Thank you to everyone who presented and I hope you are all inspired to find new opportunities for translational innovation.

Sadly, we say goodbye to Sanika Prakash this week (our eBook intern) But happily we welcome three new student trainers: Abhishek Shrestha, Tarun Kabadi and Arfa Syahrulfath.

If you have eBooks you would like to publish, check out Edinburgh Diamond Edinburgh Diamond | Books

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to filling the chimneys and emptying the cupboards. Plants looking for new homes! Stratos Santa will give us a status update soon on the weight of all our efforts.

If you find anything which looks like an award or trophy, take a picture of it and we can add it to our virtual trophy cabinet LTW Colleague Hub

If you find anything which looks like a coat ( and there is no-one actually wearing it), you can donate it University hosts winter coat collection points to support local community 

Thank you to everyone who brought books to swap and recherché chutneys. Things are looking good for the cheese course Could full-fat cheese and cream protect against dementia?

Congratulations to Delia on achieving Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology, she is now entitled to use CMALT as post-nominal letters. If you would like post-nominal letters of your own, The University of Edinburgh CMALT Programme | Learning Technology | Information Services

UCISA are reaching out to IT professionals across institutions to gather insights about diversity, career progression, and workplace experiences in our field. If you have opinions, and you like a survey, please respond Diversity Survey 2025 – UCISA Women in Tech

Our festive thank you card featuring our cuddly capybaras has been sent to all our friends colleagues across the university who give time to our projects and groups. LTW Colleague Hub

As we finish up and head home, thank you as ever to the Heads and teams who stay on-call across the holidays in case of network outage emergencies or attacks.

If you are heading North, I wish you a white Christmas, if you are heading South, remember to take your most stylish winter shades.

Best wishes and thank you,

-Melissa

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