As AI-generated content becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of trust emerge, prompting a growing need for transparency about the creation of digital content. As part of an academic study, I designed and prototyped ways to display provenance data for synthetic content made by an AI searchbot on a University website. Working in UX, I’m always eager […]

The internet is a great place to keep in touch with others. Whether you exchange thoughts with strangers about your favourite season finale on social media, play and chat while at home during a global pandemic, or like in my case, get to talk to friends and family living in another country – technology enables our need to socialise.  However, the way we form connections online, and the tech we use to do so, also comes […]

Let’s get acquainted Hello! I am Dono, a fourth-year Government, Policy, and Society student. In my role as Green Digital Design Intern on the UX team, I work on projects that integrate user-centred design and sustainable digital practices, with the goal of helping the University meet its net-zero targets by 2040. In November, I took […]

In this post, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Hannah Watson examines the research and existing guidance that have supported our work on the University’s style guide. The UX team have recently been working to refresh the University’s editorial style guide. As part of my internship, I have been doing research to assist with this project. […]

Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Read more about Wikipedia’s 25 year history, covering its early days with a ‘then and now'(and what lies ahead), at the link below: https://wikipedia25.org/en At 25 years old it may be the olddddd man of the old Internet but Wikipedia still remains the largest reference work on the Internet and is now a […]

2025 was an interesting year for the OER Service, especially with the range of new queries that arose from increased use of Generative AI tools across numerous new technologies, tools and services.

We celebrated the first year of EdWeb 2 with an event for the EdWeb 2 community on Tuesday 13 January 2026.  In this blog, I revisit our event planning and event highlights, and offer key takeaways from the presentations as a recap for those who joined us and an update for those who couldn’t make it – hope we’ll see you next time!  Planning a birthday party for a web platform  We started brainstorming content for […]

The User Experience Service worked with colleagues from the Library to assist with their content development work. In this post, we’ll summarise what this collaboration involved and how it helped the Library to improve their site.  Aims for this work In Autumn 2025, the Library team got in touch with the UX Service to get […]

Background During the preparation of my CMALT portfolio, I attended some webinars organised by the Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) and I enjoyed the collaborative atmosphere of these events. As soon as I heard about the formation of a new Special Interest Group in Digital Assessment (SIG DA) in September 2024, I expressed an interest. […]

As 2025 comes to an end (and yes, I can barely believe it’s nearly 2026) it’s worthwhile to reflect on the past year. It’s been a quite a whirlwind. Not only has news and politics been pretty shocking and horrible this year (again!!!) but news about finances in UK HE …