The Interactive Content team used ThingLink to create interactive learning materials for two Careers Services projects: ‘Skills For Success Framework’ and ‘Riding the Wave’. They chose ThingLink for its ability to add interactivity to graphics and its ease of embedding into EdWeb. The team collaborated with the Graphics Design service to create engaging and accessible content using ThingLink’s scenes and tags features.

Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The Interactive Content team help launch a new digital comic resource.

In my second month as the DLAM Digital Accessibility Intern, I’ve been contributing key accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music application. This blog describes how a GenAI workflow helped fast-track my understanding of Python coding, and allowed me to make impactful changes to an open-source project, through a process I call “Educated Prompting”.

This post was written by LLB student Dervla Craig on her first month as Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer. My name is Dervla and I am going into my second year of the Graduate LLB at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I am doing a 12-week internship with the University’s Information Services […]

In this blog post, I write about what digital accessibility is, how we can make digital content more accessible, and why all of this matters in the first place. Also, this is a sort of diary of my first month as a Digital Accessibility Intern: what I have been up to, and my thoughts about various activities I have undertaken.

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. The Interactive Content team within Information Services designed and published the ASPIRING study website on behalf of Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman from the CCBS (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

I am very pleased to say I have been nominated in the “Community Choice” category in the H5P Awards 2025, for the most innovative #H5P project of the year. Five Years of Sight Loss: A Heartfelt and Interactive Diary – by Stewart Lamb Cromar (The University of Edinburgh) Please consider voting to support my entry […]

If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.

When I went to university, we didn’t have lecture recording. To be honest, I’ll admit that when I went to university, the ‘AV kit’ in a room was an overhead projector and a chalk board.  I struggled with lectures.  They were often boring to my 18 year old self and …

Interactive Content were contacted by CMVM Research Office and Communications and Marketing to create a bespoke, engaging and easy-to-use interactive map. This resource highlights where the University’s research and innovation in health are making a difference around the world.