Flo, Jen and Neil are all presenting sessions at this year’s ContentEd Conference, happening online 21 and 22 October 2025. Plus, if you’re a member of the ContentEd+ community, you can catch Lauren in September sharing her experience of leading content design projects.

Our team went on campus during the recent Undergraduate Open Day to do some pop-up research and check some design concepts with prospective students and their parents.

I attended GovCamp Scotland last week, an unconference that brought together people in the public sector interested in building better services for people. It was a really positive experience with lots of discussion of challenges we face regardless of the organisations we work for. I left with new perspectives, new connections and a new reading […]

We’re hosting a half-day unconference on Thursday 26 June. This will be a great opportunity for colleagues with an interest in digital aspects of student recruitment to come together for discussion, learning and networking.

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.

I conduct a lot of usability testing remotely and I need to test on both desktop and mobile devices. It’s tricky to create a realistic environment for testing remotely on mobile devices. I’ve found a method called ‘laptop hugging’ that works really well.

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 […]

Last month, I attended a World Usability Day (WUD) event at User Vision, a UX and service design agency in Edinburgh. By sharing my experience I hope it helps others to decide if they want to attend an event in the future.

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

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.