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Meet the team

Click here to find out which Careers Adviser and Employer Engagement Adviser are the liaison contacts for your school.

The Careers and Employability Service team

Tracey Innes, Assistant Director and Head of Careers

Tracey Innes is the Head of the Careers and Employability Service.

Email: t.innes@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/traceyinnes/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/about/profiles/t.innes/

Gary Coull, Employer Engagement Manager

Gary Coull is our Employer Engagement Manager and leads on the Opportunities work stream for the Service. This covers Events and Fairs, Work-Based Learning, Internships and Vacancy Services as well as Employer Engagement.

Gary is the lead Employer Engagagement contact for the Schools of Biological Sciences; Law; Psychology; Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition; and Education.

Email: gary.coull@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garycoull/
Staff profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/gary.coull

Peter Cross, Work-Based Learning Coordinator

Peter Cross is a Work-Based Learning Coordinator. Image of Peter Cross

Email: peter.cross@abdn.ac.uk
Staff profile: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/peter.cross

Ghina Elkasti, Careers and Internship Manager, Qatar

Ghina Elkasti is the Careers and Internship Manager for the Qatar campus.

Email: ghina.elkasti@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ghina-elkasti/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/ghina.elkasti/

Rhona Gibson, Senior Careers Adviser

Rhona Gibson is a Senior Careers Adviser and leads on the Skills work stream for the Service. This covers Mentoring Programmes, External Qualifications, MySkills, Graduate Transitions and Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.

Rhona is the lead Careers contact for Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture and Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition.

Email: r.gibson@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rhona-gibson/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/about/profiles/r.gibson/

Regina Jäschke, Senior Careers Adviser

Regina Jäschke is a Senior Careers Adviser and leads on the Operations and Applications work stream for the Service. This covers Welcome Services, Application Services, Selection Services and Inclusive Service Design.

Regina is the lead Careers contact for Business and Engineering.

Email: r.jaschke@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/regina-jaschke/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/about/profiles/r.jaschke/

Julia Leng, Careers and Employability Adviser

Julia Leng a Careers and Employability Adviser.

Julia is the lead Careers contact for Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History, Psychology and Social Science.

Email: julia.leng@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-leng/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/julia.leng/

Maureen Macaulay, Careers Administrator

Maureen Macaulay is our Careers Administrator.

Email: maureen.macaulay@abdn.ac.uk
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/maureen.macaulay

Matthew MacCulloch, Employability Research Officer

Matthew MacCulloch is our Employability Research Officer.

Email: matthew.macculloch@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-macculloch-9898ba1b1/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/matthew.macculloch/

Andrew Mackie, Careers Information Manager

Andrew Mackie is our Careers Information Manager.

Email: a.r.mackie@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-mackie/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/about/profiles/a.r.mackie/

Shannon McGuinness, Employer Engagement Adviser

Shannon McGuinness is one of our Employer Engagement Advisers.

Shannon is the lead Employer Engagagement contact for the Schools of Engineering; Geosciences; and Natural and Computing Sciences.

Email: shannon.mcguinness@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/slmcguinness/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/shannon.mcguinness

Alisdair McKibben, Senior Careers Adviser and Internships Manager

Alisdair McKibben is a Senior Careers Adviser and Internships Manager.

Alisdair is the lead Careers contact for Geosciences, Natural and Computing Sciences and School of Biological Sciences.

Email: alisdair.mckibben@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amck/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/alisdair.mckibben/

Ellen Minshull, Employability Projects and Events Officer

Ellen Minshull is our Employability Projects and Events Officer.

Email: ellen.minshull@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-minshull/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/ellen.minshull/

Kate Robertson, Senior Careers and Employability Adviser

Kate Robertson is a Senior Careers and Employability Adviser and leads on the Engagement, Information and Systems work stream for the Service. This covers Web and Information, Systems Management, Marketing and Communications and Data and Reporting.

Kate is the lead Careers contact for the School of Education and School of Law.

Email: krobertson@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kate-robertson-aberdeen
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/about/profiles/krobertson/

Gayle Thomson, Employer Engagement Adviser

Image of Gayle Thomson Gayle Thomson is one of our Employer Engagement Advisers.

Gayle is the lead Employer Engagagement contact for the Schools of Business; Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History; Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture; and Social Science.

Email: gayle.thomson@abdn.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gayle-thomson/
Staff profile: www.abdn.ac.uk/people/gayle.thomson