Lauren Tormey
Website Editorial Assistant
- Website & Communications
- Learning, Teaching and Web Services
- Information Services Group
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Argyle House, Floor H West
3 Lady Lawson Street - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH3 9DR
Availability
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Background
Lauren joined Website & Communications in 2015.
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Support web publishers with queries on EdWeb functionality and editorial best practice
- Conduct weekly Website Support Clinics
- Undertake website project work for University units
- Conduct Quality Assurance checks on new sites
- Write support material for EdWeb Support wiki
Site creation and requesting a new site
Other responsibilities
- Edit and manage the publication of Information Services Group magazine BITS
Project activity
Lauren has been involved with the following project work:
-Editorial improvements to IT help pages as part of the Helpline-UX collaboartion project
Read blog posts on the Helpline-UX collaboration project on the Website Programme blog
-Staff profile creation for:
- Usher Institute
- Moray House
-Site builds for:
- Annual Review
- Student Immigration Service
- Postgraduate online learning
- Edit Magazine
- Geosciences MSc sites
- Animal Research
- AROGYAM
-EdWeb migration editorial fixes
Invited speaker
IWMW 2019: Cascading Style Guides: Finding Evidence For Editorial Best Practice
IWMW 2018: You’ve Got (Too Much) Mail: Encouraging Self-Service Through Improving Content
IWMW 2017: Create effective content quickly with pair writing
Organiser
In 2019, I'm a member of the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) Advisory Group. We're a conference dedicated to bringing together digital professionals in higher education to network and share best practice.