diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index dda4145c9b..2b204ef8fd 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Jump to the following sections:
     - [Working in a private repository](#working-in-a-private-repository)
     - [Who's involved in the project](#whos-involved-in-the-project)
     - [Make a change with a pull request](#making-a-change-with-a-pull-request)
+    - [Make a change to the documentation](#making-a-change-to-the-documentation)
 
 ## A DevOps development philosophy
 
@@ -219,6 +220,21 @@ You can update your [fork](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/for
 
 GitHub has a [nice introduction](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/github-flow) to the pull request workflow, but please [get in touch](#get-in-touch) if you have any questions :balloon:.
 
+### Making a change to the documentation
+
+The docs, including for older releases, are available [here](https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/data-safe-haven).
+
+You should follow the same instructions as above to [make a change with a pull request](#making-a-change-with-a-pull-request) when editing the documentation.
+
+To test your changes, build the docs locally by checking out your fork of the repo, navigating to the `docs` folder and `make`ing them:
+
+```{bash}
+cd data-safe-haven/docs
+make html
+```
+
+This will add the contents to a folder called `_output` inside `docs`. Open the index html from a browser and you should be able to navigate the docs and view your changes.
+
 ### Who's involved in the project
 
 As some users have `GitHub` IDs that make it a little difficult to know who they are in real life and it's sometimes nice to know **who** you're working with on the project, hopefully this table will help you put names to faces and IDs :sparkles:
diff --git a/docs/deployment/snippets/14_run_smoke_tests.partial.md b/docs/deployment/snippets/14_run_smoke_tests.partial.md
index 2cf5af8a0e..a44f332d24 100644
--- a/docs/deployment/snippets/14_run_smoke_tests.partial.md
+++ b/docs/deployment/snippets/14_run_smoke_tests.partial.md
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ They are automatically uploaded to the SRD during the deployment step.
     - if any of the tests fail, check the `README.md` in this folder for help in diagnosing the issues
 - Copy `tests/test_jupyter.ipynb` to your home directory
     - activate each of the available Python versions in turn
-    - run `jupyter notebook` in each case and check that you can run the notebook and that all versions and paths match throughout
+    - run `jupyter notebook` in each case and check that you can run the notebook and that all versions and paths match throughout. See {ref}`Available Python Versions <available_python_and_r_versions>`.
diff --git a/docs/roles/researcher/snippets/04_using_srd.partial.md b/docs/roles/researcher/snippets/04_using_srd.partial.md
index 92c0ed1cfc..7b8fefcfc0 100644
--- a/docs/roles/researcher/snippets/04_using_srd.partial.md
+++ b/docs/roles/researcher/snippets/04_using_srd.partial.md
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ For example:
 :align: center
 ```
 
+(available_python_and_r_versions)=
+
 ### {{snake}} Available Python and R versions
 
 Typing `R` at the command line will give you the system version of `R` with many custom packages pre-installed.