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!
In the third blog post of their digital skills series, Dave Weller, Digital Skills Lead at the University of Exeter, discusses why upgrading digital skills is harder than upgrading technology – and how the University’s Digital Skills Initiative will approach digital upskilling.
We created our Data Community in 2023 to help implement a more data-led culture across the University and to enable our colleagues to improve their data literacy.
Read this blog post written by Rebecca Jeavons, our Performance Analyst, to learn about our recent Data Community gathering.
The ability to use technology and digital services safely and in a positive manner is a critical digital skill, and one that underpins the approach that the University of Exeter’s Digital Skills Leads, Katie Steen and Dave Weller are taking towards digital upskilling.
In the second blog post of their digital skills series, Katie sheds more light on why digital wellbeing is so important – in both the workplace and at home.
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!
Katie and Dave are our Digital Skills Leads, focusing on finding ways for our University community to develop their digital skills.
This is the first blog post in a series centred around digital skills at the University of Exeter, defining what we really mean by ‘digital skills’.
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.