Course pages: a milestone five years in the making

Picture the scene. It’s 2014, on a chilly December afternoon. In a small office in the basement of Heslington Hall, the website publish has just finished, and with it, seven new course pages have gone live. They look something like this…

Avoiding a (head) shot in the dark

In-house photographer, Alex Holland, is often commissioned to take an interesting portrait shot of a University academic whom he’s never met before and who can only give a few minutes of their time.

A new look for our Open Days

If you spent any time in the Exhibition Centre during the latest Open Days, you may have noticed some changes to the department stands.

Making our social media more human

If you follow the University on social media you might have noticed that every week or so we share a photo and a quote from a ‘Human of York’. These ‘humans’ (as we like to refer to them) are staff, students or alumni who are part of the University’s community. 

Redesigning the York Festival of Ideas website

If you’ve visited the website for the 2019 York Festival of Ideas, you may have noticed that it has a brand new look. This post describes the process of designing the new site, and the new functionality we’ve developed for event listings in the web CMS as part of the project.

Departmental research pages – our progress so far

Our project to redevelop departmental research pages is underway. We’re redesigning, restructuring and rewriting key web pages to highlight our departments’ research strengths and showcase examples of York research making a difference all over the world.

An update on the Research Digital Developments Roadmap

One of our major programmes of work currently ongoing is designed to support the University’s research activity. We call this work the ‘Research Digital Developments Roadmap’ and it aims to improve the digital presence of all staff, centres, groups and departments involved in research. There are six key projects covered by our roadmap – each … Continue reading An update on the Research Digital Developments Roadmap

Welcome to our blog

Welcome to the University of York’s Marketing team blog. We’ll use this blog to share the things that we’re working on with the rest of the University community and beyond.