Research IT News
Teaching the Next Generation of Software Engineers


Find out how our Research Software Engineers have been working with researchers from Computer Science to bring coding to the next generation.
Want to Start Using Twitter Data in Your Research?


Want to find out more about using Twitter for Researchers? Joseph Allen from the School of Social Science has put together a short video lecture.
CSF Procurement Now Open


Find out how to contribute to the University's flagship HPC cluster and take advantage of the benefits that it brings.
CORONET COVID-19 Risk in Oncology Evaluation Tool - Phase II


In January 2021, our Research Software Engineers worked with the Digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team (dECMT) to create a tool to support decisions regarding hospital admissions or discharge in cancer patients presenting with symptoms of COVID-19. The tool has been so successful that multiple improvements are now planned.
Cyber Essentials Scheme Renewal


IT Services has renewed the University’s Cyber Essentials compliance for the next year.
Remote Advanced Scripting Workshop


Research IT Research Software engineers, Anja Le Blanc and Douglas Lowe recently ran a five day scripting workshop for NERC funded Environmental Science PhD students. Find out more about the workshop and the challenges of running such a workshop online
Mobile Service features in “Research On the Go”


Research Software Engineer (RSE) Patricia Barnby and Mobile Development Service (MDS) lead Adrian Harwood were recently guest panellists on the popular Society of Research Software Engineering webinar series where they discussed how RSE groups handle the growing demand for mobile apps from researchers.
Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) Competition


If you have ever taken advantage of the help, support and code available from CoSeC, you might be eligible to take part in their annual competition.
Analysing Tweets from Twitter


Twitter has just announced a new programme to allow researchers to interact with Twitter to extract data for research purposes. In this blog Peter Crowther, a Research Software Engineer in Research IT, gives an introduction to interacting with Twitter programmatically and what these latest changes mean for researchers.
Announcing MATLAB Online


MATLAB Online is now available to University staff and students and provides an alternative for occasional use or use on a fairly low powered laptop or tablet computer
CSF3 Scratch File System Upgrade: next steps


All CSF3 users should now be using the new scratch file system and ready for the turn off of the old one on the 17th February 2021.
The Three Tiers of MDS


Research software engineer Patricia Barnby describes the Mobile Development Service (MDS) 3-tier service model to help support the wide range of researcher needs around mobile apps.