Committee sub-editor: the best job in Hansard?
Committee sub-editor Cara describes the adrenaline rush of her job and how it has changed in the light of virtual Committee sittings.
Workplace Culture
Hansard reporting in a pandemic: nine changes in nine months
It's about nine months since MPs began to participate in business in the Commons Chamber via video link. Here are a few things that have changed for us (and for your reading experience) in that time.
Hansard is recruiting: new year, new career
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Charlie Browne, Posted on:
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Careers, Training and Development, Workplace Culture
Hansard is looking for new parliamentary reporters. We’d like to hear from you, whether you’ve never thought of a job in Parliament or you’ve wanted to work here all your life. Read this post to find out more about the process.
Hansard is recruiting: what it’s like to be a Committee Reporter
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Helen Jones, Posted on:
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Careers, Reporting, Training and Development, Workplace Culture
Hansard is recruiting for Committee Reporters—now! Read this post to learn about the role from someone who already does it.
Hansard: virtual Select Committees
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Charlie Browne and Jennifer Hilder, Posted on:
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Digital, Reporting, Select Committees, Technology, Workplace Culture
Video conferencing has become a big part of working for a lot of people during lockdown. In this post, we share some of our formative experiences of reporting a virtual Parliament.
Hansard in the time of coronavirus
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Charlie Browne, Posted on:
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Digital, Reporting, Technology, Workplace Culture
Like everyone in the world in these times of social distancing, Hansard staff are having to find ways of working differently to get our job done. We want to share with you how that experience is going.
Hansard: election aftermath
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Keith Brown and James Mayne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, General election, Workplace Culture
On the morning after election night, Hansard reporters get down to the task of learning all the new faces. It's a big job, but getting to see new MPs in the flesh before we start reporting their speeches certainly helps.
Hansard on election night
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James Lawrenson and Helen Lowe, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, General election, Workplace Culture
There can be few people in the UK who get quite as excited about election night as Hansard reporters, but some staff will be paying closer attention to the results than most, as they work through the night in preparation for an influx of new MPs.
Hansard: preparing for a general election
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Charlie Browne, Posted on:
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General election, Reporting, Training and Development, Workplace Culture
General elections present Hansard staff with a big challenge that is essential to the job: committing to memory the names and faces of all new MPs.
Five things I discovered on secondment to the civil service
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Will Opposs, Posted on:
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Careers, Training and Development, Workplace Culture
Parliamentary Reporter Will shares what he learnt during his five-month secondment to Civil Service Learning's Parliamentary Capability Team