I’m Jon, Deputy Head of Business Analysis and Principal Business Analyst (BA) at DWP. When I started this role it was clear the term ‘business analyst’ within DWP was used when people didn’t fit neatly into another job role and …
As Head of Business Analysis (BA) at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) I’ve always been interested in working with others performing the same role, both in and out of government. All of us have new things to learn …
I’m Sam Atherton, part of the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) first digital internship programme, based at the Transformation Hub in Leeds. I’m studying physics at the University of Leeds and about to go into my final year at …
I am pleased to announce that from today, DWP will be bringing together digital design, enterprise IT, data and security. DWP Digital is a core part of our business. Everything we do is about changing lives by providing security, extending …
On my last day as Director General of the Business Transformation Group (BTG) in the Department for Work and Pensions, I wanted to say a very big ‘thank you’ to everyone who has worked so hard to make it a …
I’m Emily Greenman, a second-year Digital Media student at the University of Leeds, and I’m one of six interns in the Digital Academy in the Leeds Transformation Hub this summer. As a digital media student, there are certain expectations you …
Chloe Westerman and Jo O’Keefe both recently graduated from the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) intensive digital training programme, the DWP Digital Academy. They now work as user researchers on some of DWP's digital projects, such as Check Your State …
My name is George Charvill and I’m a digital intern at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the Transformation Hub in Leeds. I’m studying Accounting and Finance in my second year at the University of Leeds. I’ve just …
I’m Sophie Lambert and I’m the user researcher on the Secure Communications service. It’s my job to try to work out what we can do to make some of our most vulnerable users’ lives a little bit easier. People who …
After calling out the merits of hack days in my blog Collaborating across government: let’s hack, I must admit to feeling a little nervous on the day of the hack itself. We’d persuaded 40 people from across government to join …
Although I’ve been told previously that people who have grown up using British Sign Language (BSL) as their first language would struggle with English I hadn’t seen it so strikingly as I did in a user research session at East …
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