For the first time since 2019, DrupalCamp Scotland returned, hosted here at the University of Edinburgh in October. I am proud to have been part of the organising committee for a very successful and well-attended event. In this post, I share my reflections on what it took to bring it back after the pandemic and […]

We’re running an open invite event on Microsoft Teams to share what we learned through staff engagement and user research about the University’s flexible study options. This includes the part-time intermittent (sometimes called ‘Invoiced at Course Level’) route to a postgraduate award and its overlap with other flexible study options. Join us to learn more […]

Join us on Wednesday 22nd January to watch school editors using the new degree programme editorial interface.

We’ve recently finished development on our postgraduate programme content types for the new degree finder. We are now sharing a preview of the different sections, guidance and formatting for them.

Many of our team attended a mini-conference recently, organised by colleagues at the University of Dundee. We all have personal highlights arising from a busy day of presentations and networking.

Back in September, I attended the HighEdWeb Conference remotely. This was my first experience of attending a conference online and the experience overall was very positive. My manager, Jennifer Doyle had previously attended the conference and had recommended it to me. Having attended conferences in person for the last couple of years, I thought this […]

I recently facilitated a series of workshops to redesign content that explains the postgraduate research (PGR) applying process. This process is complex, but these workshops gave us space to work through the content in detail and, crucially, draw on the subject matter expertise of our user researcher.

This blog is the introduction (and conclusion!) to a short series about a mini-project the Content Operations team completed in August and September 2024. Following some established stages of content design, we worked on a short project to provide clearer information on UK government loans for postgraduate study and postgraduate funding in general.

This blog is part of a series on a mini-project the Content Operations team completed in August and September 2024. In this instalment, I review my approach to usability testing for new postgraduate funding content, highlighting what I would do differently if I could do it over again with a little less time pressure.

This blog is part of a series on a mini-project the Content Operations team completed in August and September 2024. In this instalment, we talk about channel mapping and drafting for our postgraduate loans content, taking our research and shaping it into workable content we could share and test.