Month: November 2025

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Champions

Building on brilliance, how are community champions creating more connection and support?

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We are getting ready to grow our community champions cohort and celebrate more trailblazers who are furthering education and research. Every year we are blown away by the communities, activities and programmes our community champions support. With Digifest 2026 fast approaching, here are recent achievements, highlights and ways our champions are creating connection. Creative reflection […]

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Champions Co-creation Digital skills

Launching the ‘Community-led digital skills development’ project group 

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This is a guest blog from Chris Melia, who is the Collaborative and Digital Practice Lead at the University of Lancashire, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Jisc Community Champion. Chris is the co-chair of the community-led digital skills project discussed in this blog. When was the last time you […]