The first meeting of the Manchester Modelling Network will take place on Wed 15^th Feb in Renold E1. The Network is aimed at facilitating new collaborations / research applications rather than being a research seminar.

The next Research IT Club will be held on the 14^th of Feb and will feature presentations on the latest developments from Research IT, making the most of our Data Processing Shared Facility (DPSF) and how researchers can be involved in the Research Life Cycle Programme. To attend the event please register so we know how much coffee to order in.

The next set of dates for our Drop-in sessions has now been announced. We’ve really enjoyed hearing about your great research and helping researchers from across the Faculties tackle their Research IT issues.

A support group, Statsclinic, has been created by a group of statisticians from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. Led by Dr Paraskevi Pericleous, the group run regular drop-in sessions for researchers from across the university who have stats problems. The drop-in sessions are the 4th Wednesday of every month. The next session will be on the 25th Jan at 14:00-15:00 in room 4.24 in Ellen Wilkinson Building (please arrive within the first 15 mins).

Do you use Avizo, the 3D visualization and analysis software for scientific and industrial data? Research staff from the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility in the School of Materials are now running two drop in sessions per week.

Jisc, in collaboration with The University of Sheffield, have organised a free workshop for all researchers interested and passionate about developing or using research software.

The organisers want to collate common problems and share experiences around managing and sharing software, as well as developing new solutions. There will be experts on hand to answer any questions and inform participants of available resources.

Our flagship computational facility, The CSF, is currently only available to those researchers contributing funds to the platform. However we are pleased to announce that our recent case to provide limited free-at-the-point-of-use computational resource to users without funds, particularly for those who are not computational specialists, has been successful.

Are you wondering what an Research Software Engineer (RSE) is? When did the term first start being used or if you are one? Find out more in a brief history of RSEs from Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute.

The Collaborations Workshop 2017 (CW17) is the Software Sustainability Institute’s research software event of 2017. It brings together key members of the research software community to present, discuss, build, make, network and explore key and current areas of the research software landscape. Many RSE groups will have representatives attending.

An Avizo Introduction course will be running at the University of Manchester on Thursday, 26th January. Avizo is 3D visualization and analysis software for scientific data.

A mobile phone app developed by Research IT has been hitting the headlines recently. Featured on ITV news and Granada Reports as well as in The Daily Mirror, the Manchester Evening News and local newspapers across the region, Linguasnapp is enabling researchers to identify the range of languages used in Manchester.