Friday 3rd March

Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

Welcome to Alice Raymond who joined the online learning marketing team this week as Digital Engagement Officer. She will be focusing on marketing our MOOCs as well as promoting the whole online learning portfolio via social media and other communications channels. Alice joins us from the PeaceRep project in the Law School, where she’s been working for the last 2.5 years.

Congratulations also to Gareth Alexander has won the role of Web Development Manager, one of our internally advertised promoted posts.

If you too are interested in an internal role job opportunity, we have more available now Opportunity Marketplace – Job Information – Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications

Opportunity Marketplace – Job Information – Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications

Exciting #AI innovations from the EdWeb team who have been experimenting with bot blockers and the LST team who have enabled a room bot on their datastore. Ask them more about this.

Thank you to everyone who continues to deliver services in the face of occupations and strikes.

WonkHe magazine included an opinion piece article about how universities use Equality Impact Assessments. Universities are documenting inequality rather than preventing it | Wonkhe You can find all the University of Edinburgh published EQIAs here:Published assessments | Equality, Diversity & Inclusion | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The ones owned by ISG are under ‘I’, but there are many digital services across the University which do not have published EQIAs. So if you know the owners of any of those, please give them a nudge.

Fiona has added a countdown to LTW MTD. LTW Colleague Hub – RESEARCH & DESIGN

Leo has blogged about PHP It depends! – Leopold Ramutsamaya’s Blog

Neil has blogged about a nomadic career and his return to where we work https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/nhm/2026/04/01/return-to-the-forrest/

Ricarda has blogged about safe communications Digital communication tools and how to keep them safe – Digital Skills, Design and Training

Bart has blogged about the future of education AI, Heritage, and the Future of Education: My Reflections on the ArCH Conference – Digital Skills, Design and Training

On Wednesday I had my first opportunity to lead a snaking group of international school children away from the front door of our offices, round the corner, and use my wand to point them through the gates into the graveyard, to join throngs of their peers. I should get some kind of hat.

Wishing you a Good Friday,

-Melissa