We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we moved on from the prototype stage and which technology options we considered. This post is written by Nick Daniels and Katie Spearman from the User Experience (UX) Service. This is part 3 of our short series […]
Read moreIt was my honour this weekend to be part of a Bat Mitzvah ceremony for the daughter of one of my oldest friends. The Bat Mitzvah girl has grown into an engaging, lively, curious and clever young woman and it was lovely to see her take this step into adulthood as she comes of age. …
Read moreA guest blog post from one of our human-captioners, Ellie Kerr. Ellie joined us back in 2023 and is one of our original captioners – when we only had a team of 2. Now we have 20 part-time captioners who work on correcting automated captions across our lecture recordings and other media. I never […]
Read moreWe’ve had the privilege of welcoming a variety of experts into the studio: from climate scientists and human rights lawyers to leading figures in AI, and everything in between. One of the perks of my job is that I get to film and edit incredibly …
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 writing and improving alt text to make images accessible to all users. Our revamped content improvement meetups We recently launched Content Improvement Club, a series of meetups aimed at staff who work with web publishing at the University. The meetup […]
Read moreWhile looking through DataShare for datasets about research practice, I found the Hiberlink project dataset [1], which perfectly illustrates some …Continue reading →
Read moreI was pleased to be invited to deliver guest lectures about the User Experience (UX) Service by academic colleagues. Presenting to students and answering their questions helped me take fresh perspectives on framing the role of UX at the University. In my role running the UX Service, a significant part of my remit is to […]
Read moreChoosing a green hosting provider is a great way to improve your digital sustainability. But, as I’ve found out, this is only one part of the puzzle towards responsible digital ownership. Read more to understand the complexities behind a green hosting certification. With global data use is skyrocketing, so the push to decarbonise the […]
Read moreAt the University Library you have access to a huge range of material for your research and learning including over …Continue reading →
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