Lucy Anscombe (UK)
Web Development Manager at University of Stirling
Higher Education Connect Manchester 2022
Presentation: More than compliance: a web development team’s perspective on building accessibility
Date: September 27 - 28
About Lucy Anscombe
Lucy loves to solve problems and create new ways of doing things; identifying efficient and innovative ways to deliver user requirements and functionality through a mixture of requirements scoping, implementation management and hands-on development.
In her university-based roles she has led and managed development and content teams (working with remote team members since 2016), mentored developers, established workflows and reporting processes, developed and delivered large projects and roadmaps, and engaged in business-wide development projects as product owner, consultant, technical adviser and board member.
Lucy is currently studying for a Masters in Big Data, formalising a personal interest in the field.
As a skilled communicator with two decades of web development experience, she is uniquely placed to lead and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams and stakeholders, effectively articulating challenges, opportunities and successes.
About University of Stirling
The University of Stirling is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built within the walled Airthrey Castle estate.
The university campus is approximately 360 acres (1.5 km2) in size, incorporating the Stirling University Innovation Park and the Dementia Centre. The campus is located in the foothills of the Ochil Hills. In 2002, the University of Stirling and the landscape of the Airthrey Estate was designated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites as one of the UK's top 20 heritage sites of the 20th century.
As of 2022, the university has 14,000 part-time and full-time students. Stirling has international degree programme partnerships in China with Hebei Normal University, Singapore with Singapore Institute of Management, and Oman. The university offers a MSc in Human Rights & Diplomacy, which is the only Human Rights and Diplomacy program in the world taught in partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).