We’re now a month past our undergraduate degree finder launch. We’ve had a great combination of positive and constructive feedback, allowing us to better understand the specific challenges editors face collating undergraduate information, and develop our backlog of improvements to the degree finder service.

In the run-up to launching our new undergraduate and postgraduate degree finder service throughout 2025, we also had to contend with a migration to a new corporate content management system (CMS) in late 2024. While this additional task was challenging, I learned a lot from my role coordinating the move with both central and devolved […]

Love or hate it, following the retirement of Universal Analytics in July 2024, Google Analytics 4 is now the main space for (relatively) accessible analytics information for many websites, including the University of Edinburgh. I’ve not had much time to dig into our analytics property in my current role, so for something of a refresher, […]

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, 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.

We are shortly doing our first update to the degree finders as part of our future degree finder project. Over the course of the summer, a couple of changes are happening to the undergraduate and postgraduate degree finders to make our transition to EdWeb 2 and the new degree finders as smooth as possible.

School editors of undergraduate degree profiles will be encountering our new content model soon, as we prepare for entry 2026 content development. We have new training and guidance, and a longer lead in to give everyone enough time to prepare.

My name is Jennifer Doyle, I’m Senior Content Designer (Content Operations) with the Prospective Student Web Content Team as of January 2023. Here I’m going to share a little bit about my background, my first few weeks in my new role, and how you can get in touch to discuss all things degree finders.