Welcome to the Library! Recordings and slides
Now that everyone is settling in to the new semester, we wanted to remind all students and staff that there …Continue reading →
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Ten years of Ada Lovelace Day at the University of Edinburgh
Ada 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 moreWhat AI did next : exploring AI’s role in European theological libraries
I was privileged to attend the BETH = Bibliotheques Europeennes de Theologie conference in Stavanger, Norway, 20-23 September 2025, which …Continue reading →
Read moreAttending the first Access:Given conference
In 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 moreSharing and gaining knowledge at UCISA’s UX Community Day 2025
On 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 – open for 2025/2026 student participation
Digital 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 […]
Read moreUX leadership in open-source Drupal: Insights, lessons and future aspirations
In March this year, I was asked to join the Drupal leadership team, to bring my UX knowledge and expertise both to Drupal’s newest product, Drupal CMS, and to Drupal core. I reflect on six months of contributing to an open-source community in a leadership position. My first encounter with Drupal was learning about EdWeb, […]
Read moreData Management Training – Autumn 2025
University of Edinburgh courses are now available to book on all topics dealing with research data management. Aimed at postgraduate …Continue reading →
Read moreSaying Goodbye to VLEs We Have Loved – a Moodle Story
In many ways the summer 2025 project of upgrading Moodle from 4.3.3 to 4.5.1 is an enjoyable one for the teams involved: it was the final upgrade of the long standing, and one of our favourite virtual learning environments (VLEs); the Apps team had upgraded the data server hardware and software in the past year […]
Read moreSix practical tips: what we learnt building a new online course
The User Experience (UX) Service recently built and launched our new Effective Digital Content course. Along the way, we learnt a lot about the wider challenges of digital projects. Here are six top tips and insights we wanted to share with anyone preparing to create online learning or other digital resources. Be open to trying […]
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