Digifest community hub 2025

Nurun Nahar, assistant teaching professor at the University of Greater Manchester talks with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about being celebrated a community champion of 2025 for her work with https://www.tirigogy.com/

The CPD community hosts webinars, podcasts, resources and provides a place for educators to connect and learn to improve their skills. 

Nurun shares how the community has grown since sharing a wealth of development opportunities and how she made it happen. 

You can connect with Nurun via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nurun/ or https://www.tirigogy.com/

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10007/1/podcast-four-cpd-community-with-nurun-nahar-community-champion-2025.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: creating and growing a CPD community with Nurun Nahar

Chloë Hynes, AmplifyFE community lead and English lecturer (digital lead) at Wirral Metropolitan College, Emma Procter-Legg, project manager at AmplifyFE and Lynne Taylerson, researcher and community leader at AmplifyFE talk with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about connecting the FE sector.

We explore how the AmplifyFE community has grown through supporting educators with events and resources that are gathered across FE and understand what has contributed to its success and made it so impactful.

You can connect with AmplifyFE via the linktree if you would like to learn more = https://linktr.ee/amplifyfe?utm_source=qr_code 

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10012/1/podcast-11-amplifyfe-with-emma-proctor-legg-chloe-hynes-and-lynee-taylerson.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: Giving FE a voice with the AmplifyFE team

Laura Hutton, Subject Specialist in Accessibility at Jisc, is joined by Vicki Penny from Hartpury University and Colin Smith from Cornwall College. 

Vicki and Colin are part of a co-creation project at Jisc, led by Laura, called the FE Accessibility Training Matrix. The aim of the project is to create a shared resource for FE that curates training and resources relating to Accessibility and maps it to job roles and levels of knowledge required for all FE staff. This project is ongoing and more information can be found via the Jisc website: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/fe-accessibility-matrix#event-resources

This episode focuses on the motivations behind the project, reflections on the work so far and some general chat about the themes and sessions from Digifest.

Podcast transcript: https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10029/1/accessibility-training-matrix-with-laura-hutton-vicki-penny-and-colin-smith-transcript.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: the FE Accessibility Training Matrix project

Join us for another great episode recorded from our Digifest 2025 community hub in March. This episode features two amazing professionals from Higher Education libraries: Rosie Jones from Teesside University and Caroline Ball from University of Derby. 

Hosted by Rosie Hare, Community Intelligence and Impact lead at Jisc, this conversation covers a wide variety of topics from leadership, digital and information literacy and the impact of working with communities of practice. 

Join us for another great conversation, and please share with your networks! 

Podcast transcript: https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10028/1/academic-libraries-leadership-and-impact-with-caroline-ball-and-rosie-jones-transcript.docx


Digifest community hub 2025: Academic libraries, leadership and impact with Rosie Jones and Caroline Ball

Luke Searle, Learning Designer at University of Southampton talks with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about making maths accessible. 

Luke was celebrated a community champion of 2025 for being co-chair of the Jisc accessible maths working group. 
Luke shares how the community is helping provide tailored approaches to help make maths more accessible and how this has been achieved through the support and passion of the community. 

You can connect with accessible math JiscMail list https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ACCESSIBLE-MATHS 

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10010/1/podcast-six-accessible-math-with-luke-searle-community-champion-2025.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: Making maths accessible with Luke Searle

Elly Cope, head of access and acquisitions at the University of Leeds talks with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about how she has been changing perceptions in the world of library systems to make this work more visible. 

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10008/1/podcast-five-helping-libraries-resources-with-elly-cope-community-champion-2025.docx

Digifest community hub 2025: Shining a light on the world of libraries systems  with Elly Cope

Hear how communities across education and research are bringing people together to share and learn.

We cover learning and teaching, adapting to AI, accessibility, licensing and much more.