This post is the second written by LLB student Dervla Craig who has worked as our Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer researching and preparing a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to preserve, and raise public engagement with, the accused witches of Scotland as an important part of Scotland’s heritage. As I sit to […]
Black History Month UK is an annual event that celebrates the achievements of black Britons and people of colour throughout history.
In order to highlight this history we’ve curated a selection of open educational resources created by our staff and students on Black History in the UK.
This summer, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Mostafa Ebid integrated ELM into EdWeb2 in a Generative AI tool aimed at helping web publishers prepare content. He tested it with a sample of participants to make an initial assessment of the user experience it provided in the context of assisting them with web publishing tasks. After […]
The University holds a vast collection of digitised artefacts including images, manuscripts and artworks, accessed through a central digital collections platform. The Digital Collections team asked for UX support with a project to redesign the platform front-end, to help ensure it served needs and expectations of platform users. Following a piece of work to develop […]
This post is the second written by LLB student Dervla Craig who has worked as our Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer researching and preparing a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to preserve, and raise public engagement with, the accused witches of Scotland as an important part of Scotland’s heritage. As I sit to […]
Launched during Global Goals Week in September, ‘SDGs: Stories of impact’ is an exploratory publication from University and tells stories of some of the University’s meaningful contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past five years.
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 […]
Earlier this year, all users of our digital badge service BadgEd were invited to take part in an evaluation of the service. This included Champions who support digital badges in Schools, Issuers who award digital badges to their learners, members of th…
I have spent the last few years caring for my mother who, back in the day, was a bit of a lifelong learning radical herself. You can read about her work on this blog Oh WOW! Women at Work in the 1980s – Diverse Collections which may give some insights into what has influenced my …
For many students, Welcome Week is one of the most exciting weeks on the University calendar…and possibly of their University lives. Packed with excitement, nerves, intrigue and enthusiasm, there’s so much to see, do and take in. For our team, it’s also a highlight. It’s our chance to get out across campus, meet new students […]
