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How content design and teamwork contributed to Countryside Stewardship

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On World Environment Day we hear how colleagues from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) worked with content designers from the Defra farming content team to improve the scheme guidance on GOV.UK, ahead of the launch of this year’s Countryside Stewardship (CS) schemes. 

Become a content designer in Defra’s future farming team

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Sue Agnew, Jenn Brookbanks and Tom Metcalf

Defra is recruiting content designers for its future farming programme. Sue Agnew, Jenn Brookbanks and Tom Metcalf recently joined the team. Read about their experience of the content design role and what they enjoy about it, to help you decide if this role is right for you. 

National Storytelling Week: How content design has helped my creative writing

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Melissa Massey on her computer with a her cat sat next to her

For National Storytelling Week, Melissa Massey shares how content design has helped her with her creative writing including research and scoping out work, understanding the audience you are writing for, looking at the structure and user journey and language used.

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