Festival of Social Science 2024

Exploring social science with the 2024 festival theme 'Our Digital Lives'.

Festival of Social Science 2024 website

Services Make Hay Provided

  • Consultancy
  • Content planning and strategy
  • Project management
  • Illustration, art direction and visual design
  • Responsive, accessible and GDPR compliant design
  • Custom content management system design
  • ExpressionEngine development
  • Social media integration and assets provided
  • Green Hosting
  • Year round support and guidance

Festival of Social Science 2024

Festival of Social Science 2024 Festival of Social Science 2024

Events search facility

Festival of Social Science 2024 Events search facility

Single event details page

Festival of Social Science 2024 Single event details page

Festival of Social Science 2024 mobile views

Festival of Social Science 2024 Festival of Social Science 2024 mobile views

Visit Live Website - https://festivalofsocialscience.com/

Festival of Social Science 2024 Case Study

The fourth year providing our website and hosting services for the annual Festival of Social Science, taking place over several weeks during October and November with over 40 partner universities and educational institutions. The theme 'Our Digital Lives' explored the relationship between humans and digital technology.

As always, much of our time and resources are focussed on supporting the Festival Manager and partner administrators due to the huge amount of work involved in planning and preparing for over 300 events across the UK in the months leading to the festival weeks and afterwards. It is essential that the content management system is easy for administrators to use, ensuring each event has been added accurately and using best practice in accessibility and usability.

This year saw another new design and layout, providing more immediate access to important calls to action. The visual style was recreated with a new use of the existing colour theme in a dark mode and new illustrations.

The front-end calendar of events contains hundreds of workshops, talks, exhibitions, performances and more. We kept and honed the powerful search facility implemented last year, allowing website visitors to search for different types of events based on target audience, topic, format, academic subject, region and so on.

The secure Partners area continues to be used all year round. This is a separate but related site which allows partners to log in and access resources and information relating to the festival, such as important meeting dates, guidance for event leaders, a PR and comms toolkit, evaluation documents and logos and illustrations.

We continue to collaborate with our colleague and illustrator Thoughts Make Things who once again brilliantly created this year's illustrations and social media assets, keeping them in line with the Economic and Social Research Council's existing branding, meeting the highest accessibility standards and providing a distinct identity from previous years.

The Festival of Social Science 2024 is of course hosted at our very own Green Hosting.