We are looking for members of the new Research IT Academic Advisory Group (RITAAG), from PhD researchers to senior academics and PS staff.

Our Mobile Development Service (MDS) was recently approached by Dr Jonny Huck from the School of Environment, Education and Development, to develop a mobile app to collect data related to the movement and gathering patterns (or otherwise) of people in various areas of Chile to see if those sharing the same country of origin tended to visit and/or congregate in groups.

We are pleased to announce that the new version of REDCap is live and you can now request an account through the ITS support portal.

Did you know that UGs and PGTs from the Faculty of Science and Engineering can use our HPC Platform for their projects?

Peter Crowther from our Research Infrastructure team has recently been appointed as the N8 CIR Research Infrastructure Engineer (RIE) Theme Lead promoting community development for RIEs.

The University is going to renew its Mathcad licence for another year until end of July 2023 but there is some action required from Mathcad users.

We are currently gauging interest for a potential NVidia training course and we need your feedback!

Testing mobile apps is challenging. When released via the app stores an app can potentially be downloaded onto numerous different sizes, makes and models of phones which run either Android or iOS with different operating system versions. Automated testing on the cloud provides affordable access to a large subset of these devices. Read about how our Mobile Development Service (MDS) makes use of Microsoft’s mobile testing platform on Azure, to ensure quality apps are released to the stores.

Our pilot Shiny app hosting service is allowing University researchers to showcase their research in exciting and interactive new ways. In this blog post, we show how Jo Watson, from the School of Biological Sciences, used it to publish an app accompanying her recent paper on subcellular visualisation.

Research Software Engineers Patricia Barnby and Adrian Harwood, of our Mobile Development Service, have developed a new app in partnership with The Nightingale Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital and the Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. It targets women under the age of 35 with a family history of breast cancer – a group for whom there is little support available at present.

Are you interested in using the Julia programming language for your project? Would you like to discuss this with other users? A new group has just been launched to bring interested parties together.

The University of Manchester is one of the largest UK universities with over 6000 PGRs and researchers. There is a great deal of expertise and knowledge within the University but how do we share that knowledge? A new central hub for special interest groups (SIGs) and user groups centred around computational research and data analytics hopes to help.