It takes a village

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Date

7 November 2023

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7 November 2023

Online 10:30 - 11:30

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About the Event

UX – It Takes a Village

UX doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it takes communal effort to do UX effectively.  

In Higher Education, the success of any UX initiative not only rests on relationships with influential stakeholders and supportive managers, but it also relies on shared understanding and collaboration with teams across myriad functions and disciplines like Quality Assurance, Development Operations, User Support and Business Analysis to name a few.

Join us for this session as we’ll be looking at the friends UX needs to thrive, sharing examples of UX playing well (and also not so well) with other teams in our institutions.

Speakers

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Chris Lockhart

Head of product

University of Southampton

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Ben Watson

Head of Digital Accessibility

UCL

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David Goddard

Head of Digital Student Experience (Information Services Division)

University College London

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Gareth Davies

Stakeholder Engagement Manager

RNIB

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Akshi Kakar

Business Analyst Student Systems Partnership

University of Edinburgh

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Akshi Kakar has led the design and development of higher education systems for over 13 years. She started her career at a VLE where she launched a Usability Testing laboratory and has since worked at universities in the US and UK understanding and applying user research and business analyses techniques to understand user needs and most usable information designs.

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Event Schedule

Tuesday

10:00

Welcome and introduction

Joseph Talbot, User Interface Team Leader, University of Oxford
10:05

Case Study from University of Edinburgh

Akshi Kakar, Business Analyst Student Systems Partnership, University of Edinburgh
10:30

Case study: a collaborative approach to improve outcomes for prospective students at the University of Southampton

Chris Lockhart, Head of product, University of Southampton
10:50

Case Study from University of Edinburgh

Ben Watson, Head of Digital Accessibility, UCL, David Goddard, Head of Digital Student Experience (Information Services Division), University College London, Gareth Davies, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, RNIB

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