6-minute read This week we’ve launched a refreshed version of the e-petitions website. What is the e-petitions website and why does it matter? It feels incredible to say but the e-petitions website has been around in some form for 20 …
House reporter, Charlie Browne, talks about Hansard's postgraduate diploma in parliamentary reporting and how it equips new reporters for a job like no other.
Content is king. But what does that mean? And what is surface content? Elisabeth Ward explains how to create quality content.
Recently it has become commonplace for the flag above Parliament to be flown at half mast. Some of Parliament's followers on Twitter and Facebook have asked why this is done. So, what does flying a flag at half mast represent?
Caroline Braibant is the webmaster in PDS and a lot of people ask her about her job. She's written this blog post to explain what she does, what she doesn't do and to help people make sense of the webmaster role.
Jocelyn Peachey joined Parliament nine years ago last month. Her Parliamentary career has been varied and challenging and she reflects on what she's learnt during her time here.
Tori Baker has written about the work we've been doing on cultural values and what we've got planning in the coming months.
We’ve blogged before about language and gender. We’ve found that removing masculine words and gender coding from job adverts has a huge effect on applications from women. This got us thinking, how gendered is the PDS blog?
Colin Pattinson recently worked on the discovery for a guide on Parliamentary procedure and he's blogged about the findings.
Gemma Rogers has blogged about why making videos isn't always a good idea and what you can do to make your videos better.
We recently tried using the Google Ventures design sprint methodology on our committees project for beta.parliament.uk. Rachel Elliott-Potter talks about what we did and what we learned using this new way of working.