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Gabi Mitchem-Evans

@gabime.bsky.social

User research and design in government | #UserResearchInWales community lead. I want to make things better for people through design research, inclusive design and co-design 🌈 πŸ“ London / Wales 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://medium.com/@gabim_e

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Thank you πŸ’›

09.06.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing this! So important. Do you have any particular resources you'd recommend for ensuring virtual workshops are accessible please? thank you!

05.06.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bradford project produces β€˜outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools

More of this please.

Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to β€œwhat researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

23.05.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 17
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Building Successful Communities of Practice in organisations Take this self-paced course to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations. Learn about the benefits for members and organisations, how to build them and ...

I am going to buy 2 places on @ewebber.bsky.social's fantastic new self paced learning course, for people traditionally marginalised in the #digital industry if you're interested, or know someone let me know πŸ‘

(inspired by @deanvipond.bsky.social recent offer for UCD folks ❀️)

23.05.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A mocked up loyalty card, like the ones you get in coffee shops, with 10 circles to tick off every time I say no. In the 10th circle is a rainbow icon, indicating that once I hit 10 I get a reward. The card is entitled: β€˜saying no: celebrating setting and maintaining boundaries in 2025’

A mocked up loyalty card, like the ones you get in coffee shops, with 10 circles to tick off every time I say no. In the 10th circle is a rainbow icon, indicating that once I hit 10 I get a reward. The card is entitled: β€˜saying no: celebrating setting and maintaining boundaries in 2025’

Halfway through my first β€˜saying no’ stamp card for 2025 βœ… Set up as a little accountability tracker with a friend.

In a capitalist society that tells us to grasp every opportunity, it’s healthy to say β€˜no’ to some to prioritise rest ☺️

Need to decide what I’ll treat myself with when I get to 10 πŸ€”

26.01.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Reflections on facilitation training What is facilitation and how could it help us?

I've written my reflections from the course here medium.com/@gabim_e/ref...

07.04.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The need for good #facilitation is something I often rant to about to my colleagues about so I was grateful to go to Facilitation 101's training course a few weeks ago to sharpen my skills 🌟 Is this something anyone else is thinking about? Would love to chat!

07.04.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

you either book a workshop short enough to leave people wanting more or long enough to wish they were dead 🌈 🌟

04.04.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weeknote 05 | 14th March 2025 Services week talk on bilingual design, leadership in a remote org and users vs stakeholders

#Weeknote 05 ✍️

This week: services week talk on bilingual design, leadership in a remote org and users vs stakeholders

medium.com/@gabim_e/wee...

14.03.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@cdps.bsky.social

14.03.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Register for How to do Welsh language user research when things aren’t perfect

Sign up here: digitalpublicservices.gov.wales/courses-and-...

14.03.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to say I'll be presenting a talk on "How to do Welsh language user research when things aren’t perfect" at #ServicesWeek next Thursday with my colleague, Tom Brame. Link to sign up in the comments if you fancy joining us πŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏπŸ‘‡

14.03.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Lunch Club Join the Research Lunch Club and meet two other researchers from your city for lunch each month.

Hey #researchers, πŸš€ Introducing Research Lunch Club!

We're launching a new community service called @researchlunchclub.com.

🍽️ Meet other researchers in your city for lunch.
πŸ‘‰ Join waitlist: researchlunchclub.com

#Networking #Researchers #uxresearch #community

10.03.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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User Researcher with ref. BBBH38337 Yolk Recruitment work with a wide range of employers/recruiters and is a leading provider of jobs in Cardiff with Job Reference BBBH38337.

Come and work with me! πŸ“£

We have a User Researcher maternity cover vacancy at CDPS. Please share with your networks!

This is a fixed-term contract role or secondment - DM me if interested in a secondment.

www.yolkrecruitment.com/job/user-res...

#hiring #jobs #userresearch @cdps.bsky.social

28.02.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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User Researcher with ref. BBBH38337 Yolk Recruitment work with a wide range of employers/recruiters and is a leading provider of jobs in Cardiff with Job Reference BBBH38337.

Come and work with me! πŸ“£

We have a User Researcher maternity cover vacancy at CDPS. Please share with your networks!

This is a fixed-term contract role or secondment - DM me if interested in a secondment.

www.yolkrecruitment.com/job/user-res...

#hiring #jobs #userresearch @cdps.bsky.social

28.02.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weeknote 03 | 7th February 2025 Including research problem solving clinic, UCD community strengths, streamlining Welsh benefits and more

#Weeknote 03 | February 7th 2025 πŸ–ŠοΈ

medium.com/@gabim_e/wee...

Including: Community research problem solving clinic, internal UCD community workshop on strengths, streamlining Welsh benefits and more

#ucd #userresearch #welshpublicsector #wales #userresearchinwales

07.02.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we learned from UK Gov Camp 2025 Co-written with Jemima. Policy and digital working together, digital transformation not being finished, leadership patterns

My colleague Jemima and I collabbed on our @ukgovcamp.bsky.social reflections, you can read them here πŸ‘‡

medium.com/@gabim_e/wha...

@cdps.bsky.social
#ukgc25 #ukgovcamp

29.01.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weeknote 02 | 24th Jan 2025 It has been a very meeting and line management heavy week, I haven’t got to do much of the problem solving/ thinking side of my job which…

πŸ“ Weeknotes including:
- Gov Camp UK
- My enjoyment of procurement panel involvement (v aware this sounds lame)
- Line management reflections

medium.com/@gabim_e/e0c...

27.01.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

and hope you're feeling better ❀️

23.01.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh nooo i'm sorry to hear that! yes please :) let's get a date in the diary!

23.01.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ†˜ A school we were going to film in has pulled out for 1st March in Cardiff/surrounding area.

I need a (cost effective) school venue to film 2 interviews in ad walk around (think main hall, corridors, a classroom)

I'm going through official school rent routes but it's £££, anyone able to help?

22.01.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm sorry to hear you had that experience, that does sound horrible. I absolutely agree that it should not be used for marketing purposes and I hope you're okay.

20.01.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
NHS Hack Day | Geeks who love the NHS

@stephenmnewport.bsky.social we have an NHS Hack Day coming up at Cardiff Uni nhshackday.com on March 1/2 - it's a bit different to other hackathons. Do you think you could share with your networks? Here's a great post about what makes it special medium.com/@lauren.m.be...

11.01.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100% agree, my social battery is depleted but what a great day πŸͺ« lovely to see you!

18.01.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish they would teach kindness in leadership, or how to operationalize humanity and integrity. I’ve experienced this a few times in my career in varying degrees and it fills me with optimism bc creating a better world, a better product, begins with one human at a time.

18.01.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Yay, what a lovely surprise!!

18.01.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weeknote 01 | 17th Jan 2025 I would love 2025 to be the year I finally commit to week-noting, so here goes!

New year, new attempt at regular week noting πŸ“

Featuring:
- Accessibility discovery next steps
- Community in-person event
- Defining our users
- Welsh benefits accelerator work

medium.com/@gabim_e/wee...

17.01.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meeee πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ We should def find each other for a coffee!

16.01.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

See you there!

16.01.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aww that's a shame! Hope to catch you again soon or maybe we could organise a coffee? ☺️

15.01.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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