Exploring social science with the 2024 festival theme 'Our Digital Lives'.
Services Make Hay Provided
Festival of Social Science 2024
Events search facility
Single event details page
Festival of Social Science 2024 mobile views
Visit Live Website - https://festivalofsocialscience.com/
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.