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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s… Huge. On the 1st and 2nd of February, 11 of our team went to the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. This is an epic two-day conference with over 1000 talks (and something like 8,000 attendees) hosted in Brussels. It’s really huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that there are a good […]

In November, UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) provided funding for select UCL staff to attend SC24, the 2024 running of the annual SuperComputing (SC) conference, hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. UCL was one of 494 exhibitors, with a stand showcasing several novel High-Performance Computing (HPC) research initiatives taking place at UCL through posters and talks. […]

To champion the creation of sustainable, robust, and equitable digital healthcare systems that prevent the perpetuation of healthcare inequalities, ARC researchers took the lead in organising the second workshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on June 28th, 2024. The workshop focused on a key question: how can […]

This year’s RSE conference took place from 3rd – 5th September in Newcastle. Around 20 ARC staff attended in person, with several others joining in the hybrid experience remotely. The latter has been steadily improving year on year, at least for contributing to the formal parts of the conference programme. The informal conversations are still […]