Hi, I'm Lewis, I’m a third-year Management student at the University of Leeds. I’d like to start my own business in the future, so I’ve looked for personal development opportunities that would give me transferable skills. The advert to join …
I’m Sam Atherton, part of the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) first digital internship programme, based at the Transformation Hub in Leeds. I’m studying physics at the University of Leeds and about to go into my final year at …
I’m Emily Greenman, a second-year Digital Media student at the University of Leeds, and I’m one of six interns in the Digital Academy in the Leeds Transformation Hub this summer. As a digital media student, there are certain expectations you …
My name is George Charvill and I’m a digital intern at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the Transformation Hub in Leeds. I’m studying Accounting and Finance in my second year at the University of Leeds. I’ve just …
I’ve recently taken on the role of building project delivery and digital capability in the Business Transformation Group in DWP. I’m also a Programme Director for the Fraud, Error and Debt programme. We have several projects in private beta right …
In my previous Digital Academy blog post, I wrote about how to get started with discovery research. Ideally your team will have been part of this process, getting involved with research and taking part in analysis sessions. For people like …
Sommer and Sandra are graduates of the first cross-government Digital Academy. It was held in February this year, shortly before the Digital Academy celebrated its first birthday. Sandra works in the Legal Aid Agency; and Sommer within the NHS Health …
When we brought the Digital Academy together in February this year, we did some user centred design of the future Academy schedules. The Digital Academy is growing, and the ambition is to run 9 Academies at the same time over …
Happy 1st Birthday, Digital Academy! It’s been a year since we opened the doors of the first Digital Academy in Fulham Jobcentre. Back then, we ran an 8-week course, turning out the first cohort of 12 graduates who then went …
Ben Holliday recently posted a Digital Academy blog called ‘Understanding the problem’. It’s an introduction to understanding the problem when you’re working with a team on a service in discovery. As well as developing a research plan to get started, …
