Enterprise Architecture: making a technical process easier to navigate

Last year, we worked closely with the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team within IT Services to help promote the system approval process. Historically, there was no web presence – the process lived in Google Docs and often relied on knowing who to ask. Our goal was to demystify EA and help colleagues get their proposals approved as smoothly as possible.

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Content design team round-up: March 2026

A short and sweet update to sum up what has been a packed couple of months since my last update in January.

HR web migration

A team of us migrated the HR web pages from Dreamweaver into the Web CMS in just six days! It was super satisfying and fun. It’s not live yet but will be soon… 

Get a sneak peek and find out more about the HR web migration project.

Department and interdisciplinary centre web rebuilds

It’s also been a big month for department and centre web rebuilds.

The web rebuilds for the Department of Politics and the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics went live on 2 March. Sam in the Faculty Spokes team did the legwork on these, and we supported with our usual facilitation and content oversight stages along the way to help get them over the line.

The department web rebuild project started back in 2022 when we worked with the three new schools, and we’ve been rolling out the framework to academic departments ever since. We’ve now completed 19 rebuilds, with just three left to do. It’s exciting to be close to the finish line.

We’re also working with the Faculty Spokes team and the Research Communications team on the web rebuilds for the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Centre for Medieval Studies. Earlier this month, I reviewed the content and information architecture plans for these ahead of build work starting. We’re looking forward to seeing these progress over the coming months.

New HR web pages now live

Over the past few months, we’ve been working on migrating the HR web pages from a legacy system (Dreamweaver) and into the main University website and our central web content management system (CMS). Having the HR content within the CMS will mean it’s easier to maintain and better aligned with our wider University website, brand and key content for staff. 

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Designing a better IT experience for staff and students

That’s a wrap! After a complex, multi-phase project, we’ve finished rebuilding the IT Services web pages. 

As my first major project in this role, I can honestly say it was a beast. I’ve learned so much. There were complexities I didn’t anticipate, many questions asked and a sinkhole of time spent staring at a spreadsheet wondering if anything actually belongs anywhere.

But I now know exactly what an IT service catalogue is (and it might be part of my personality forever).

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Brand and Creative Services team round up

December and January are particularly busy months for our team as we wrap up some of the biggest annual projects of the year – all while still creating lots of other photos, videos and assets.

Here’s a closer look at just some of the many things we ticked off!

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