CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Websites for world-leading crop science.
We design, build and look after the websites for two of Cambridge’s flagship crop science programmes, the Crop Science Centre and ENSA.
Both are working on some of the biggest questions in agriculture, from more resilient, high-yielding crops to helping smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa grow more with less fertiliser.
They needed websites that could share complex research clearly, keep publications and people up to date with very little effort, and stay fast and secure for a global audience of scientists, policymakers and partners.
Busy research teams,
and a lot of science to share.
Researchers don’t have time to wrestle with a website. Each programme needed a platform that showcased its projects, publications, people and partnerships in a dynamic and accessible way, that a growing team could keep current without technical help, and that could evolve as the research moved on.
Bespoke WordPress, joined up
with the research world.
We designed and built a fully custom WordPress platform for each programme, with a modular back end so the teams can create new pages, news, projects and profiles themselves. For the Crop Science Centre we connected the site to Google Scholar and ORCID, so each researcher’s published work appears automatically and stays accurate. Both sites run on secure managed hosting we set up and look after, with automated backups, firewalls and monitoring.
Research that’s easier to find,
and sites that look after themselves.
Both teams now publish news, projects and publications themselves, so their sites stay current without waiting on outside help. The Google Scholar and ORCID integrations make the Crop Science Centre’s research easier to discover and cite, and the managed hosting keeps both sites fast, secure and reliable. We continue to support both programmes as their research grows.
2020
Crop Science Centre opened, an alliance of Cambridge and NIAB
$35M
Gates Foundation funding for ENSA, announced in 2023
9
International partner institutions in ENSA, across six countries
“Supereight Studio created a beautifully designed, user-friendly website that perfectly showcases our research and impact. Their expertise in UX design and WordPress development made content management seamless, allowing us to easily engage with scientists, policymakers, and industry partners. They truly understood our vision and delivered a platform that reflects the innovation and sustainability at the heart of our work.”