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UX Healthcare 2025 Discussion
By Amanda Ho-Lyn and Katie Buntic, on 25 June 2025
Earlier this year, Katie and I attended a relatively small conference, hosted by UCL no less, for User Experience Design in healthcare. The talks were varied, with several personal stories highlighting some of the shortcomings in healthcare due to lack of or misaligned consideration of their users when designing their products and services. In this […]
Open Science Workshop: Professionalising data, software, and infrastructure support to transform open science
By Katie Buntic, on 25 June 2025
As part of this year’s UCL Open Science Festival, the UCL STEP-UP team hosted a small hybrid workshop exploring the skills, services, and technical support needed to enable open research. The session brought together a mix of researchers and Research and Technical Professionals (RTPs), with expertise spanning research data, software, and computing infrastructure. Despite a […]
Spotlight on…Fabian Garza, Senior Infrastructure Developer
By Louise Pollock, on 25 June 2025
Fabian Garza at SC24 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. What is your role, and what does it involve day to day? I joined ARC as a Senior Research Infrastructure Developer two years ago. My workday is pretty varied, which is one of the reasons I enjoy it so much. There’s a balance between managing projects, learning new […]
ARC is participating in In2Research, again!
By David Pérez-Suárez, on 20 June 2025
In2Research is a one-year programme led by In2scienceUK where students are first assigned a mentor and then do an 8-week placement at a research department to learn and experience the academic and research life. Last year, ARC hosted our first ever placement: Saima Abdus. Saima had just graduated in Pharmacology & Innovative Therapeutic and joined […]
Narrating FAIR: recognising and rewarding FAIR practices and the use of narrative CVs
By Samantha Ahern, on 20 March 2025
On Wednesday 5th March 2025 colleagues from ARC piloted the new interactive workshop: Narrating FAIR: recognising and rewarding FAIR practices and the use of narrative CVs The initial ideas for the workshop were generated as part of the FAIR Data Accelerator Workshop, an activity of the FAIR Data Accelerator Pilot Project. The aim of the […]
Ideas from UX London
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 12 March 2025
What? UX London was a conference on user experience design, i.e. how we can design products/services/systems for users to have meaningful and pleasant experiences using them. The incentive was that within ARC, we have little experience in designing our products and with an increasing number of web projects which are not just intended for internal/researcher-only […]
ARC ❤ Google Summer of Code
By David Pérez-Suárez, on 28 February 2025
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) accepted organisations were announced yesterday, and many of us in ARC and friends from other departments are involved in this year’s edition. Google has been running this programme for 20 years, making this one its 21st. GSoC focuses on helping Open Source projects get new contributors so they can learn […]
Research Data Stewardship Community Launches!
By dorothy.chung, on 26 February 2025
UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) has recently established the Research Data Stewardship Community, which aims to bring together those working at UCL under the research data stewardship umbrella in a supportive and uplifting professional environment. In advance of this, both in-person and online launch events have been conducted to introduce the concept and shape the […]
CHAOSSCon and FOSDEM: open-source, health, and waffles
By Saransh Chopra, on 19 February 2025
I have experienced conferences before; I have experienced developer workshops; I have also experienced small meetups; what I never had experienced was FOSDEM, or the way I see it, Comic-Con for open-source people. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) is an annual event organized by and for people involved with open-source software in […]
FOSDEM 2025: A Weekend of Talks, Conversations, and Controlled Chaos
By Christian Gutschow, on 17 February 2025
My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]
