Prospective postgraduate research students are an important audience for many academic profile pages. In this post, I look at some practical steps that academic staff can take to make their profiles more useful to this audience. In our research project looking at staff profile pages, we’ve heard from colleagues about the most important audiences they […]
Read moreWe’ve been developing a new version of Effective Digital Content. This post looks at how this work fits into our wider approach to supporting content design across the University. About the current version of Effective Digital Content If you work with websites at the University, there’s a good chance that you’ve taken our course Effective […]
Read moreContent Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month, we looked at choosing the right words for our content so that it’s easy to find, use and understand. Our revamped content improvement meetups We recently launched Content Improvement Club, a series of meetups aimed at staff who work with web publishing at […]
Read moreIn October, I went to Liverpool to attend ContentEd, a conference for content professionals in the higher education sector. This post is about a couple of talks that stood out for me. Lessons in managing stakeholders through large content design projects Jonny Vaughan (Head of Content Design) and Claire Furnish (Content Designer), University of Southampton […]
Read moreUnlike a conventional conference, the UKEduCamp unconference gives attendees the chance to set the agenda and run the sessions themselves. Members of the UX team helped organise and took part in UKEduCamp at the University on Friday 12 January 2024. UKEduCamp is a version of UKGovCamp – an unconference for people interested in public sector […]
Read moreBetween September and November 2023, we heard from web publishers around the University about their news and events content. This post summarises some of the themes that came out of this research. Why we did this research There’s a huge amount of news and events content on University of Edinburgh websites. With the ongoing development […]
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