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 […]

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 […]

Over the last 15 months there has been much debate, hype and concern relating to capabilities of tools and platforms leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and media generators. Broadly termed Generative AI. The predominant narrative in Higher Education has been around the perceived threat to academic integirty and associated value to degrees. As such a […]

RSECon23 opened with a keynote from Gael Varoquaux, introducing themes synergistic to my conference workshop “How do we design and deliver sustainable digital research education”. The actual theme of the workshop, what role(s) does RSE have to play in Education for Sustainable Development probably wasn’t what most participants were expecting. However, there were some very […]

Two weeks ago (20th – 23rd June) we ran an internal workshop in our group to reflect about our teaching activities. As any good workshop, it also included a fun hack day at the end to work on pet projects or ideas that we haven’t had the time to work on it before. This is […]

Tl;dr: We successfully ran a 3-hour workshop for 11 learners with one instructor and five helpers. We used Blackboard Collaborate as our main tool and shellshare to “look over the shoulders” of the learners. Our team has been running training workshops since its start. Enabling researchers to make better software is one of our core […]

The next research computing seminar will take place, Friday (24th of October), 1pm-2pm. Professor Daniel Kroening , Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, will present a seminar entitled “Reasoning about IEEE Floating-point Arithmetic with Abstract Conflict-Driven Learning”. Date: Friday, 24th of October 2014 Place: Wilkins Haldane Room Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Abstract: Conflict-Driven Clause Learning […]

At UCL Research Software Development, we continue to host a Practice of Research Programming Event Series. Across all research fields, the day-to-day work of many researchers now involves significant amounts of programming. This series provides a forum for these practitioners of computational research to share the techniques that underpin their work. Discussions focus on generalizable […]