Before joining the Civil Service, I did science outreach, demonstrating different robots to school children and explaining how we program them. We showed that they too could grow up to do programming and themselves as a career. There were so …
We’re part of the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) Digital team. Find out how we recently took one of OPG’s services through a live service assessment. When someone loses the mental capacity to make their own decisions, the court …
I joined MoJ Digital and Technology at the start of November 2020, as a frontend developer. Before joining, I’d worked as a full-stack Python developer for about three years. I’d mainly worked in startups and small companies, so being part …
In 2019 I took the leap of changing careers from events and customer service roles to software development. It was a tough transition and a very steep learning curve but well worth it. After completing an intense immersive bootcamp course …
A recent PWC UK research report stated that only 5% of leadership positions in the technology industry are held by women, proving that there is still a huge gender gap in the technology industry. Despite an ever-growing number of interventions …
I am Ewa Stempel, Lead WebOps Engineer in MoJ Digital & Technology. I joined the Ministry of Justice and the Digital Studio Operations team in July 2019 and didn’t know what to expect. I however was very excited to start …
Many of us have been working at home for several months now under lots of different circumstances. In March, with the first national lockdown it felt like a bit of a shock to the system knowing that we would be …
I remember all too vividly, a month or so before lockdown turning to Amanda Smith, one of my peers, and saying - this is going to hit us - what are we going to do about it? Never in a …
There is a meme doing the rounds on social media asking people to describe 2020 as a food. Many responses are typically foods that many came to despise as a child; however my response was a little more, um, quirky. …
Today is International Day of Persons with a Disability - a day to celebrate and to look towards the future and the creation of a world where a person is not defined by their disabilities, but by their abilities. Disability …
As a new mom and a new starter at MoJ, working and looking after a child during a global pandemic has not always been smooth sailing but there has been a lot of support and ways to get help from …
