My first six weeks in Parliament
Elisabeth Ward recently joined the content team at PDS and she blogs about coming from a small agency to working in Parliament, what it's like to work here and how she's spent her first six weeks.
Cultural values
Building culture ... one badge at a time
Culture - it's a tough one. You'll hear all sorts of companies and brands talking about their working culture - but it's not something that you can just implement. In fact, sometimes the more you try, the less successful you'll be.
What we learned from the GDS User Research team
Our user research team spent a day with GDS observing how they run their user research sessions. It was an interesting opportunity to see the processes and methods used by an established research team and we learned a lot that could help the development of our own team.
PDS at Silicon Milkroundabout. We’ll definitely be back
Julie Byrne blogs about PDS attending the latest Silicon Milkroundabout and how we brought our Digital Principles to life at the event.
Building networks of support: visiting the Web Science Institute at University of Southampton
The data and search team recently spent a day with the Web Science Institute, discussing some of the challenges facing the team as they deliver new data and search services at parliament.
codebar event
Last week the Parliamentary Digital Service had the pleasure of hosting codebar.
Work experience with website alpha - Samuel Kasadha
Samuel Kasadha, a work experience student, spent a week shadowing various people at PDS. He wrote about how we helped him understand the work that gets done in parliament, what goes on behind the scenes and the difference between parliament and government.
Work experience with website alpha
Matthew Bwye Lera, an 18 year old student spent 3 weeks on work experience at PDS. He talks about what he learnt during his time in Parliament.
My first week on work experience
Well, this is the first time I’ve written a blog post so I hope you like it! I’m Matthew Bwye Lera, a Spanish guy who has come to do some work experience here.
Work Experience at the Parliamentary Digital Services by Alexander Fedotov
To everyone reading this I am Alexander Fedotov and I am 15 years old, from Fleet, Hampshire. This week I’ve been working with the Website Alpha team and I have greatly enjoyed it!