More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

I am going to buy 2 places on @ewebber.bsky.social's fantastic new self paced learning course, for people traditionally marginalised in the #digital industry if you're interested, or know someone let me know 👍 (inspired by @deanvipond.bsky.social recent offer for UCD folks ❤️)

Halfway through my first ‘saying no’ stamp card for 2025 ✅ Set up as a little accountability tracker with a friend. In a capitalist society that tells us to grasp every opportunity, it’s healthy to say ‘no’ to some to prioritise rest ☺️ Need to decide what I’ll treat myself with when I get to 10 🤔

The need for good #facilitation is something I often rant to about to my colleagues about so I was grateful to go to Facilitation 101's training course a few weeks ago to sharpen my skills 🌟 Is this something anyone else is thinking about? Would love to chat!

you either book a workshop short enough to leave people wanting more or long enough to wish they were dead 🌈 🌟

#Weeknote 05 ✍️ This week: services week talk on bilingual design, leadership in a remote org and users vs stakeholders medium.com/@gabim_e/wee...

Excited to say I'll be presenting a talk on "How to do Welsh language user research when things aren’t perfect" at #ServicesWeek next Thursday with my colleague, Tom Brame. Link to sign up in the comments if you fancy joining us 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👇

Hey #researchers, 🚀 Introducing Research Lunch Club! We're launching a new community service called @researchlunchclub.com. 🍽️ Meet other researchers in your city for lunch. 👉 Join waitlist: researchlunchclub.com #Networking #Researchers #uxresearch #community

Come and work with me! 📣 We have a User Researcher maternity cover vacancy at CDPS. Please share with your networks! This is a fixed-term contract role or secondment - DM me if interested in a secondment. www.yolkrecruitment.com/job/user-res... #hiring #jobs #userresearch @cdps.bsky.social

Come and work with me! 📣 We have a User Researcher maternity cover vacancy at CDPS. Please share with your networks! This is a fixed-term contract role or secondment - DM me if interested in a secondment. www.yolkrecruitment.com/job/user-res... #hiring #jobs #userresearch @cdps.bsky.social

#Weeknote 03 | February 7th 2025 🖊️ medium.com/@gabim_e/wee... Including: Community research problem solving clinic, internal UCD community workshop on strengths, streamlining Welsh benefits and more #ucd #userresearch #welshpublicsector #wales #userresearchinwales

My colleague Jemima and I collabbed on our @ukgovcamp.bsky.social reflections, you can read them here 👇 medium.com/@gabim_e/wha... @cdps.bsky.social #ukgc25 #ukgovcamp

📝 Weeknotes including: - Gov Camp UK - My enjoyment of procurement panel involvement (v aware this sounds lame) - Line management reflections medium.com/@gabim_e/e0c...

🆘 A school we were going to film in has pulled out for 1st March in Cardiff/surrounding area. I need a (cost effective) school venue to film 2 interviews in ad walk around (think main hall, corridors, a classroom) I'm going through official school rent routes but it's £££, anyone able to help?

@stephenmnewport.bsky.social we have an NHS Hack Day coming up at Cardiff Uni nhshackday.com on March 1/2 - it's a bit different to other hackathons. Do you think you could share with your networks? Here's a great post about what makes it special medium.com/@lauren.m.be...

I wish they would teach kindness in leadership, or how to operationalize humanity and integrity. I’ve experienced this a few times in my career in varying degrees and it fills me with optimism bc creating a better world, a better product, begins with one human at a time.

New year, new attempt at regular week noting 📝 Featuring: - Accessibility discovery next steps - Community in-person event - Defining our users - Welsh benefits accelerator work medium.com/@gabim_e/wee...

Excited to be going to my first @ukgovcamp.bsky.social this year, who else is going? 🙋‍♀️ #ukgc25

We're hosting a #UserResearchInWales community meet-up in Cardiff on 12th December, if you're a researcher in Wales we'd love to have you there! Come along to share and celebrate the user research happening in the Welsh public sector and network with other researchers in Wales 🌟🎅 @cdps.bsky.social

This is a list of oppressed and systematically disadvantaged people and groups in the UK 🧵 The list is in no particular order. Items are loosely grouped. Please use it in any way if it's useful to you! I welcome your feedback, suggestions and comments ⭐️ docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/8 ⬇️

Loved speaking to the #UserResearchInWales community last week about #codesign, we shared reflections from our 'Codesigning with Care' training from @kamckercher.bsky.social @jenniparker.bsky.social, alongside resources from @copronetwales.bsky.social. Looking at care-ful ways to start 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💡

This!! Especially in Wales where we're not even governed to work strictly to these phases

I'm not sure why it took me so long to come here but it's so nice to have the old sense of community and network back 🥹