Over the last year, alongside my colleagues in the User Experience (UX) Service I’ve been writing and developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content (EDC) online course – which is now live. You can read more about this work in our blog series: Part 1: Developing our Effective Digital Content online course Part […]
Read moreThis post is the second written by LLB student Dervla Craig who has worked as our Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer researching and preparing a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to preserve, and raise public engagement with, the accused witches of Scotland as an important part of Scotland’s heritage. As I sit to […]
Read moreThis summer, Digital Content Style Guide Intern Mostafa Ebid integrated ELM into EdWeb2 to build a Generative AI tool aimed at helping web publishers prepare content. He tested the tool with a sample of participants to make an initial assessment of the user experience it provided in the context of assisting them with web publishing […]
Read moreThis post is the second written by LLB student Dervla Craig who has worked as our Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer researching and preparing a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to preserve, and raise public engagement with, the accused witches of Scotland as an important part of Scotland’s heritage. As I sit to […]
Read moreNow that everyone is settling in to the new semester, we wanted to remind all students and staff that there …Continue reading →
Read moreAda Lovelace day is the 14th of October this year and this will be our 10th year of celebrating that day! We are planning events and activities with a climate and earth sciences theme, running in the afternoon and early evening of that date. The day time events will be in the Main Library and […]
Read moreI was privileged to attend the BETH = Bibliotheques Europeennes de Theologie conference in Stavanger, Norway, 20-23 September 2025, which …Continue reading →
Read moreIn September, I attended Access:Given, a new one-day digital accessibility conference. This post covers the four sessions and my takeaways from an insightful event. Being at the very first Access:Given felt like a real opportunity. Accessibility was central, not just in topic, but in how the event was run. Five speakers across four sessions each […]
Read moreOn 11 September 2025 Nick Daniels, Mel Batcharj and I attended the UCISA User Experience (UX) Community Day 2025 – organised by Emma Horrell and the UCISA committee. In this blog we share our reflections from the day. A new hybrid format was adopted The day was run in a new hybrid format where people […]
Read moreDigital Volunteering with Wikipedia The fourth year of the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia concluded on 31st March 2025. Seven students (and one staff volunteer) completed this extracurricular digital research project amassing both the requisite 55-80 hours of volunteering time AND the significant & demonstrable impact in improving the topic coverage of their […]
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