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Launching Parliament’s Digital and Data Skills Centre of Excellence

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The digital, data and information environment is moving quickly. Keeping up-to-speed with those changes, as well as preparing for those coming in future, can sometimes feel daunting. And that’s true for nearly all of us in different ways, whether we’re …

Spotlight on Abigael Taiwo, DevOps Engineer

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Welcome to our new series of spotlight interviews, where we'll introduce you to some of our colleagues working across the Parliamentary Digital Service. Meet Abigael Taiwo. Abigael started as an Associate DevOps Engineer in September 2023 as part of the …

A healthy mistake culture: lessons from our Digital Transformation team

A note which says 'You will make mistakes...learn from them' is pinned to a notice board.

Last year I forgot the name of a new team member. I had a complete blank. And what’s worse, it happened when I was introducing them at a programme team meeting – in front of about 40 people! I was …

A toolkit for developing technical digital careers

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Recruiting people into technical digital roles and helping them develop their skills in-post has been a long-standing challenge for Parliament. We’ve been working to improve our offer for technical roles, helping people to build a career that brings long-term rewards and challenges. 

Women in digital: a conversation on career paths, skills, and culture

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Photo of the authors: left: Julie Byrne, right: Sarah McIlwaine

Earlier this month, to mark International Women's Day, we held a conversation between two colleagues about their careers in digital so far, and the way they see their impact on promoting access to digital and technical roles in PDS.

Making films accessible with British Sign Language

Filming in the archives – the director and another colleague with the presenter looking at rows of rolled up scrolls.

The job of the PDS Film Production team is to make sure that the films we produce reach as wide an audience as possible. We were asked to look at incorporating BSL into a film tour of the Parliamentary Archives to improve accessibility for UK viewers.