Digital Buzz at UoE
In Digital we endeavour to be user-led in everything that we do. This approach helps to build trust with our users, while knowing that we are providing them real value. We currently have one Student Communications and Engagement Assistant embedded within the Digital team, focusing on helping to increase engagement with our student audience.
Read this blog post to learn about Deborah’s role in the team so far!
Last month we hosted Times Higher Education’s Digital Universities UK event (DUUK) on our Streatham campus. The three day event was a huge success, receiving lots of positive feedback following and during the “excellent”, “inspiring” and “very well organised” event.
Learn more about the event in this blog post!
The University of Exeter are partnering with THE to host Digital Universities UK 2024 on our Exeter campus. We’ve split into four planning subgroups, each focusing on one element to set our event apart from the rest.
Read this blog post to learn about the great things we’re planning to help make DUUK 2024 stand out!
We recently created a selection of films to bring to life our digital strategy and allow our users to increase their understanding of the University’s digital strategy vision and how we are delivering it. Take a look at our Digital Strategy film here!
One way that we are user-led is through employing current Exeter students to work within our team. Deborah is our Digital Strategy Communications and Engagement Assistant. Read this blog post to learn about Deborah’s recent Instagram takeover where she shared her life at university and her role in the Digital team.
From identifying culture principles which directly enable the effective delivery of our digital strategy, to creating channels to allow celebration of achievements and a space to share and ask questions regularly, we have multiple initiatives in place to ensure our culture is positive and enables us to deliver. Read this to learn about our culture principles and how they help our team.
We had our first quarterly planning day of 2024 where the whole team gathered in-person to celebrate our achievements of the past quarter and set and share goals for the upcoming quarter. Learn about our January away day here.
In the Summer of 2022 the University launched our 2030 Digital Strategy, setting out our vision to become the most accessible and connected university destination for any user. This blog focuses on the first problem the University’s digital strategy aims to solve: Competitiveness.
In Digital we communicate using agile comms techniques, meaning that we communicate clearly, briefly, and regularly. This enables us to share our work as it happens, reflecting our real-time progress and learnings. Read this blog to learn how we use agile comms techniques to tell our story.
With a new year beginning we spent some time reflecting on the past year in the Digital team at UoE. Agile ways of working demonstrate the importance of having time to reflect on what went well and what we can learn after each sprint, so the end of the year is no different. Watch our Digital Wrapped video here.