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| Introduction | Strengths, unique features. Vibrant, exciting, makes an emotional connection. Like a walk down Cuba St? Include a video tour? Consider including a 1-minute video from HOS. |
| Our services | A fuller version of what is in the Home section/page.Link to Homesite content when ever possible (eg: Subjects/topics; UG Degrees and PG programmes; Research projects; Centres, institutes and instituteschairs). May be a series of visual 'promo' links. Could have a course widget to show courses taught by the school (or staff in the school). |
| Location and facilities | Link to Our campuses on the homesite. Retain info about facilities, building/floor access, health and safety, and similar (although potentially this should be located in 'Current students'), but maybe have an overview here and the detail in the Student Information section |
| Students | A small collection of features covering the university experience of recent students. Are these stories? Projects? |
| Alumni | Link to alumni area in the new 'engagement hub'. Retain on the school site any school-specific information for alumni (eg, newsletters, how to sign up). (But note that this may move to the engagement hub eventually.) |
| Positions | Eg, Academic Visitors' Programme, Fellows, Curator in Residence (School of Art History). |
| Partners | Accreditation, affiliations, prof professional bodies, industry assns associations and partnerships, sponsors, donors. |
| Publications and Forms | Links to core publications (e.g. School Prospectus, Faculty Handbook) Does this include research reports/publications (that are not by an individual (therefore in staff profiles) or a centre/institute/chair (therefore in Research hub) |
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- Provide a profile of the faculty and its activities, including its purpose, roles and responsibilities; structure and affiliations.responsibilities, structure (i.e. schools) and affiliations.
- Could aggregate some of the content of its composite schools (e.g. news, events, staff)
- Enable staff in different roles at the faculty to be easily identified and contacted.
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Audience | Information needs | |
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Prospective staff | Understand the strengths and features of the faculty. Current students - both coursework and research | Find out about Student and Academic Services - what they can help with, how to contact them. |
| Industry/external stakeholders | Building channels for research and funding | |
Prospective staff | Understand the strengths and features of the faculty. Is this somewhere I'd like to work? Who else works here?Current students - both coursework and research | Find out about Student and Academic Services - what they can help with, how to contact them. |
Home
| Introduction | Intro block - brief. Linking to main intro in 'About us'. |
Our services and schools | Overview of services faculty offers (what is administered and managed 'Quicklinks' to schools. 'Quicklinks' to research centres, institutes and chairs. Do we (via widgets and filtered search results) also show what is taught and researched by the schools in the faculty? Could save user time searching, but would it be misleading? |
| Our people | People finder widget for academic and general staff, as well as research-focused PG students. Covers both faculty and schools within |
| Who to contact | Contact block. Include Student and Academic Services. |
| News | Research projects, student achievements etc. Surfacing from Homesite based on tags Do these ever happen at a faculty level? Would it (also) include all those for all the schools beneathCould include items created by the composite schools, especially if engagement or alumni focused? |
| Events | Seminars, conferences, careers events, lectures etc. Surfacing from Homesite based on tags Do these ever happen at a faculty level? Would it (also) include all those for all the schools beneathCould include items created by the composite schools, especially if engagement or alumni focused? |
Content
The content outline below represents a general example of what a school area might contain. While some content will be in all school areas (eg, Introduction, What we do), other content won't be required by all schools - and some schools may have additional content needs.
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- Sections/areas, not separate sites.
- Much smaller and simpler - audience focused, clearly defined purpose.
- Content much more integrated/aligned with mainsite. Content exposed in key areas of site where visitors are looking at related material. Strong links from F and S areas.No content duplicationHomesite (i.e. strong links to and even content surfaced from Homesite.
- Focus is on the audience context for showing content and building a relationship between existing content, not the duplication of it.
- Flexible approach - 'local' content that has no logical home on mainsite Homesite remains on school site.
- Aligned with mainsite Homesite approach for content increasingly being organised by task, topic or user group - not by organisational structure.
- Encourage people to think about F&S content (rather than F&S 'sites').
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