Author: Tess Higgins
We have made some updates to the JISC Digital Skills Discovery Tool to make selecting your school or department within the university simpler. The Discovery Tool is an interactive questionnaire that identifies your Digital Skills Capability ratings, highlighting strengths, and areas for improvement. Existing users: We need you to update your Discovery Tool Department! Follow these easy steps to complete this process: Open the […]
The Graphic Design Service has provided design services to staff across the university for 20+ years. While there have been multiple iterations of this service, our designers have over 60 years combined service to the University of Edinburgh. I am incredibly proud to manage this service. Much of the work my team do, is hidden in […]
On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th of February 2026 I have the privilege of attending the COPIM 2026 conference online. Copim is a community of people and organisations who collaborate on community-led and values driven initiatives, which help to support open access authors, publishers and readers. About | Copim I found myself at this conference, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesI had the privilege to attend “Practical Project Management for Staff”, a one-day course run by the University’s Project Management Office. Project Management Office | Project Management My line manager suggested the course as something of interest, as I have worked on large and small-scale projects at the university, and I now find myself projectContinue reading Project Management for Non-Project Managers
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn the 16th of September, I joined ALT’s “Open Education, AI and Populism – Revisited” online conference. The goal was to reflect back on the topics and discussions of ALT’s Open Education Conference 2025, and identify what new information is available, what has changed, and what progress has been made. Having not had the opportunity […]