Our Mobile Development Service (MDS) have been working with Drs Gail Hebson and Clare Mumford from the Alliance Manchester Business School to deliver a mobile app to improve the mentoring process in apprenticeships.

Working out the relationships between the twigs in the tree of life - with confidence - is a key goal for biologists and palaeontologists. It also provides computational challenges. Russell Garwood, from the School of Natural Sciences, explains what these are, and how Research IT have helped.

Our Research Software Engineers have been working with Dr Nathan Smith in the School of Social Sciences to design a tool to monitor and support mental and psychological health needs in high risk environments.

The Access to High Performance Computing Call, through which EPSRC users can access the council's new and upcoming Tier-1 and Tier-2 resources has now gone live.

There is a prestigious 5-year Research Software Engineering Fellowship call announced with first round deadline on 18 August 2020.

When faced with a large dataset from UK Biobank, Alex Casson’s research group needed an easy and quick way to process it. Christopher Beach explains how they tackled this issue with some help from Research IT.

Mark Lundie, Research Infrastructure Engineer in Research IT, helped Dave Topping’s research group to use Julia on the CSF – a move that could benefit many researchers across the University.

Do you use our SSH/X2GO gateway (nyx servers)? How you log in will be changing on 3rd of August

Not so much a top tip this month but an opinion piece – Ian Cottam talks about the recent news that Apple are moving to Arm Processors. What does that mean for Mac owners?

We are planning to change the ABAQUS licence allowing use remotely and on personal machines.

Our Research Applications Support team have been busy updating a range of research software applications to the latest versions.

Andrew Jerrison, Research Software Engineer, explains how he worked with researchers led by Prof. Gareth Evans from Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, to develop a software application to collect and collate data that allows them to give women a personalised risk assessment of breast cancer at their normal screening session.