A few highlights from Digifest 2026 - Digital leadership and culture forum Highlights from Digifest 2026, including discussions on digital transformation, digital leadership, Welsh sector priorities and visual reflections from the event.

Great to be at #Digifest26 this year. I’ve shared a few highlights from the sessions and conversations I joined.
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Digital Practice Round Up - January 26 - Inspiring learning This is our monthly roundup of what the Jisc Digital Practice team have been doing and discovering over the last few weeks.

Grab a coffee or three. It's a bumper edition of the Digital Practice Round Up this month! The stuff we've been doing and discovering over the last few weeks. inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/02/d...

In case you missed it, I'm leading a project reviewing the Wales Digital 2030 framework to see if it still works for post-16 providers in Wales #Cymru #Wales #FE #Post16 #Apprenticeships #AdultandCommunityLearning #Digital #Strategy

In case you missed it, here's what digital leaders have been talking about in our forums last year #digital #HE #FE #Leadership #DigitalLeadership #Jisc

In case you missed it- we recently attended Jisc's Security conference and explored with delegates what works when communicating with senior leaders about cyber.

Connect More is running again in May 2026 and @jisc.bsky.social are looking for submissions from FE and HE practitioners on the theme of "be empowered to transform education through practitioner-led, ethical digital innovation".

Deadline is the end of January! www.jisc.ac.uk/forms/submit...

Refreshing Digital 2030 in Wales - Digital leadership and culture forum As Digital 2030 reaches its mid-point, a review considers how it can best support Wales’ post-16 sector amid ongoing digital change.

Wales Digital 2030 framework is undergoing a mid-term review.
Jisc is supporting Medr to gather insight from Further Education, apprenticeships and adult learning providers.
#Digital2030 #FE #Digital #Wales #Post-16
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Speaking the Same Language: What We Learned About Cyber Conversations with Senior Leaders - Digital leadership and culture forum A sector conversation exploring how senior leaders understand cyber security, the barriers to effective communication and what helps create clearer, more confident dialogue.

New blog from our Community hub session at the Jisc Security Conference in Manchester.
How do senior leaders understand cyber, and what helps these conversations work?
Some great insights from FE and HE colleagues.
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Are You the Glue Holding Things Together? - Digital leadership and culture forum Learn why recognising glue work in digital transformation is vital for digital leaders driving change in colleges and universities.

Are you the glue holding things together?
Every organisation has people who make collaboration work, but their effort often goes unseen.
My latest Jisc blog explores why this “glue work” matters. #Collaboration #Community #Leadership
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A battered clock from the school in Aberfan that was struck by the coal slurry. The clock hands have stopped at the time the slurry struck the school.

Remembering those who lost their lives in the Aberfan disaster 59 years ago on this day.
#Aberfan
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Piloting learning technologies: from dreams to reality Piloting. Proof of concept. “Let’s use this new tool.” The way learning technologies are introduced to colleges and universities varies. Sometimes pilots are undertaken, other times a learning tool…

Hopefully see you at #ALTC25 in Glasgow on Friday. Do drop-in to my workshop with University of Exeter's Steph Comley 'From Dreams to Reality: piloting digital learning tools'. We beginning to build digital learning tool piloting framework and need your help :-) altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...

Alfie the brown Cavapoo surrounded by fallen autumn leaves.

Alfie enjoying Autumn 🍂🍁

From AI to Wellbeing: What a Year of Digital Leadership Conversations Reveals - Digital leadership and culture forum Emerging themes from our digital leadership and culture drop-ins, from AI and strategy to wellbeing and inclusion.

Looking back on a year of digital leadership conversations in HE and FE, and how our community forum is capturing what we’ve learned together.
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Spider web in the sunshine

Heron flying low in a wood

A view of Cwm Darran with the sun low and fog at the bottom of the valley.

Alfie, a cavapoo dog, posing in the foreground of a view of Cwm Darran on a sunny morning

Making the most of the Autumn sunshine this morning 🍁at Cwm Darran. Caught a glimpse of a heron fishing too

I've just read this #Digital #Leadership #Culture

Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED Fin Gough and Sioned Cray's saying poody confused producers but is in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Diddorol! #Cymraeg
BBC News - Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED - BBC News
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I've been using my version of the Pomodoro technique this week to help me focus, or as my daughter would say, "lock in".

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Cwm Darran Lake on a cloudy day. Alfie, a cavapoo, is in the foreground.

A tree lined path leads to the distance. Alfie the cavapoo is walking down the path in the foreground.

Good to get #outdoors to Cwm Darran with Alfie (our Cavapoo) after all the rain we've had. #Wellbeing

Castle Arcade in Cardiff. People are sat at small round tables lining the arcade.

Ffwrnes pizza oven with "joio byw bois bach" written in orange neon on the walls behind.

A daal meal in the street food restaurant on the first floor of Cardiff market.

A profile view of a skeleton of a mammoth.

Enjoying a rainy day in #Cardiff #Cardiffmarket #Arcades #Museum #Mammoth

Why Communities Matter in Digital Leadership - Digital leadership and culture forum Discover how Communities of Practice support digital leadership, foster collaboration, and generate shared knowledge across education.

In my latest blog, I share why Communities of Practice matter and how we’re experimenting with new ways to share community knowledge in our forum.
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#HigherEd
#FurtherEducation
#CommunitiesOfPractice
#DigitalLeadership

However, Sgwd yr Eira is more dramatic and you can walk behind it!

Here's Sgwd y Pannwr which might be my favourite...

Sgwd yr Eira waterfall

Sgwd yr Eira waterfall from a distance.

Swg y pannwr isaf waterfall.

Sgwd y Pannwr waterfall

Last weekend, I got to walk the 4 falls trail in the Brecon Beacons. Spectacular! Loved it 😍

Building bridges - working together across departments Effective digital transformation requires colleagues from right across a college to come together. How can IT and teaching teams work together more effectively?

Blog post: we've been looking at cooperation and collaboration between departments to help with digital change. Here's my latest update (including my favourite bridge) inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/b...

I love this kind of article. A makeshift #accessibility workaround creates 'urban geology'. Now I know what 'tactical urbanism' means.

How can we avoid the cobra effect in digital leadership? - Digital leadership and culture forum Learn how to avoid the cobra effect in digital leadership and set targets that drive real progress.

I’ve been reflecting on how setting targets in digital projects can sometimes create perverse, unintended incentives.

Well-meaning targets can end up working against the outcomes they were meant to support. I've written more here in a short blog: digitalleadership.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/0...

Building Better Collaboration: What We’re Learning in FE - Digital leadership and culture forum Reflections on improving collaboration across teams in Further Education.

I've been part of a project exploring how digital, teaching, IT and support teams work together in #FE.
Here are some early reflections and a few imagined scenarios based on what we’ve heard and seen.
Do any of these resonate with your context?
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I've just read this.

Reasons for optimism: Reflections on Digital Universities UK, 2025 - Digital leadership and culture forum Reflections on digital transformation from the Digital Universities UK 2025 conference.

I attended Digital Universities UK for the first time this year. Here are my reflections on the sessions I attended. Reasons for optimism?
#DUUK25
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