Blog – Page 21

Keeping profiles up-to-date: Practices and processes for managing the end-to-end lifecycle of staff profiles

21st May 2025 Emma Horrell

Research for the Role of Profiles project found that many University staff profiles were out-of-date. Interviewing staff about their current processes for creating, updating and deleting profiles identified the work required to keep profiles current, and surfaced areas of good practice as well as opportunities for improvement. Analysis of UUN data associated with University staff […]

Profile owners, coordinators and consumers: Making sense of multiple perspectives on staff profiles

21st May 2025 Emma Horrell

Interviewing 40 academic and professional services staff about profiles not only revealed insights from staff about their own profiles, but also viewpoints from staff involved in coordinating and utilising profile content. This blog post recounts the process to synthesis and analyse staff interview data to surface these different perspectives and understand associated needs and requirements. […]

Listening and learning from staff: Our process for interviewing University colleagues about online profiles

21st May 2025 Emma Horrell

The Role of Profiles project aims to identify recommendations for an improved online profile provision, based on the needs of University staff. Interviewing individual staff members was our primary research method. This post outlines how we set up and conducted staff interviews – to hear what staff had to say, and to gather data on […]

nice weather for ducks

16th May 2025 Melissa Highton

On some of the hottest days of the year this week, I ventured southwards for two conferences, both featuring birds and both styled in hot pink.

Accessibility testing our Effective Digital Content online course

12th May 2025 Mel Batcharj

We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we approached manual accessibility testing and the changes we made as a result. This is part 5 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other posts in this series are: Part […]

Ripples

11th May 2025 Anne-Marie Scott

So I’m no particular lover of LinkedIn (or much social media these days) but for reasons various and professional I am compelled to dip in there on a semi-regular basis and inevitably do find things that otherwise might have passed me by. Today it was … Continue reading Ripples

VE Day: through our online resources

8th May 2025 cstirling

Today, 8 May 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) when people in Britain and …Continue reading →

Building our Effective Digital Content course in Articulate

30th April 2025 Mel Batcharj

We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we built the course using our chosen platform, Articulate Rise 360, and how we found the process. This is part 4 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other […]

Papers of Benjamin Leigh Smith: Journal of the Schooner Samson 1871

29th April 2025 lbeattie

Today we are publishing an article by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement team, on Benjamin Leigh Smith’s voyage …Continue reading →

Free University Card Replacement

29th April 2025 lawlibrarian

So, what do you do when your university card is lost, damaged or stolen? Well, usually you will visit our …Continue reading →

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