{"id":3787,"date":"2022-08-23T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:56:08","slug":"creating-an-inclusive-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2022\/08\/23\/creating-an-inclusive-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"creating an inclusive organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3785\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I aim to\u00a0 promote an inclusive culture in my organisation. I have a focus on promoting cross-generational working. We welcome student interns as staff, and while not all students are young, they do tend to lower the average age about the place.<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to have such a great group of interns who will work with us all year across all of our teams and projects.<\/p>\n<p>Joining our two Napier Web Development Interns (who work with us full-time) and our Web Governance Intern ( who has been with us for ages), we also have this year: a Digital Content Training Research Intern, a\u00a0 Digital Marketing Intern, a Diversity Recruitment and Attraction Intern,\u00a0 a Media Administration Intern, an Edtech Operations Intern, a Design System and Web Media Intern, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2022\/08\/19\/nudges-in-learning-tech\/\">Nudge Intern<\/a>, a Student Notifications Service Software Developer Intern, a User Research Intern,\u00a0 2 Digital Learning Interns, \u00a07 Learn Foundations Interns, 4 Web Content Migration Liaison Assistants and a Digital Skills Trainer &#8211; Coding Intern!<\/p>\n<p>I will also be having regular \u2018Heads Learn from Interns\u2019 session where the LTW senior management team will hear recommendations and advice from the interns, based on their insights and expertise.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, many of our interns do stay, or return and have careers with us after they graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I aim to\u00a0 promote an inclusive culture in my organisation. I have a focus on promoting cross-generational working. We welcome student interns as staff, and while not all students are young, they do tend to lower the average age about the place. I am delighted to have such a great group of interns who will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[479,125,422],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","category-eople-place-work","tag-digital-internships","tag-interns","tag-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}