The People
Claire Wicher
Founder
Claire founded CodeUp shortly before she started working for Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) but has since qualified as a teacher of computer science.
Claire is a technology-loving girl geek with a passion for organising events, as well as being a blogger, BCS PGCE Scholar, Custodian of BarCamp Manchester, Founder of CodeUp, and Awesomeness Ambassador for the Django Girls Foundation. She is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, North West Code Club Champion, National Coding Week Ambassador and Pi-Top Champion.
Dr. Cristina Vasilica
Organiser, Mentor
Cristina is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Digital and Social Media in Healthcare. Her background is in IT service development working in the industry before embarking on PhD, which evaluated the impact of social media on patients’ information provision, networking and communication.
My teaching and learning skills are spread over a variety of contexts. Within the Higher Education (HE) context, I have a good record in designing and delivering learning technologies, contributing to student programmes and working with colleagues to develop innovative online solutions, recognised with the VC's Distinguished Teaching Awards 2013. Outside HE, the majority of projects involved developing sustainable and transferable strategies, achieved through motivating and training stakeholders.
Dr. Marie Griffiths
Organiser, Mentor
My main teaching focus is upon the role of digital technologies in the business setting specialises in the convergence of the ‘real’ and digital worlds and the social influences of technology. Teaching commitments lie within this area teaching Emerging Technologies, Information Security, Enterprise 2.0 and Information Systems. I have recently been awarded along with my colleague Dr Kutar a Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching award for our innovative teaching approach using Inquiry Based Learning.
I have significant experience gained working on varied digital research projects which have explored the commercial and societal implications of technological change. My current research agenda focuses upon young people and digital media, exploring their behaviour in virtual spaces, their roles as ‘prosumers’ in social networking sites, the extensive media hubs that now surround even very young children and understanding the potential consequences of this digital saturation.
Liz Smart
Organiser, Mentor
Liz is a regional coordinator at the Raspberry Pi Foundation where she helps set up and grow Code Clubs for children in communities across the North West.
Liz spends her free time volunteering in Salford where she is a STEM Ambassador, CoderDojo Champion, Raspberry Pi Certified Education and Code Club volunteer. She has a passion for tinkering with electronics and creating projects that are often more quirky than practical.
Harry Martland
Mentor
Harry is a Senior Software Engineer at BookingGo and attends both the Manchester and Salford CodeUp. He Mainly programmes in Java but also maintains applications written with Angular, React and JQuery. Highly performant, scalable API's are what interest him and keep him busy in and after work.
Along with CodeUp he mentors graduates and apprentices on Manchester Digital courses and is also an organiser of CodeYourFuture.
Languages
Java JavaScript SQL Bash
Tools and Libraries
Spring Boot Docker K8s Hibernate/JPA Git React