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Improving the University’s Research Explorer Portal

Traceyanne Sinclair,

The Research Explorer portal, which forms part of the Pure software, is being upgraded. Researchers and PGRs can now preview the upcoming changes and your feedback is encouraged!

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New Head of Research Software Engineering Announced

Photo of Adrian Harwood
Photo of Adrian Harwood
Gillian Sinclair; Adrian Harwood,

We are pleased to announce that Adrian Harwood has recently been appointed Research IT’s new Head of Research Software Engineering. Adrian has worked for the University for 11 years as a researcher and lecturer in engineering, and more recently, has spent the last three and a half years establishing and running the Mobile Development Service within Research IT as a Research Software Engineer (RSE).

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Meet Our Year in Industry Students!

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image of a keyboard
Anja Le Blanc,

This year we are hosting three Year in Industry students from the Department of Computer Science. They will be an integral part of our team for the next year and will be working alongside our Research Software Engineers (RSEs).

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Changes to the University LabVIEW License

Anja Le Blanc,

The University has renewed its LabVIEW license for another three years however National Instruments have changed our license conditions.

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Promoting Open Research

Gillian Sinclair,

Research Software Engineer Ann Gledson appears in a new video case study from the Office for Open Research discussing how to make research data available to a diverse research community.

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Help Shape the Future of Research IT

David Topping; Robert Haines,

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

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Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?

Phil Bradbury,

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.

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New Research Database Service Launched

Carly Moseley,

A new service for researchers has been launched! The Research Database Service provides professionally managed databases for unrestricted data.

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New Version of REDCap Launched

Carly Moseley,

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.

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Compute Resources Available for Student Projects

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Data centre rack with many units, interconnects and lights
Pen Richardson,

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

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Research IT Infrastructure Engineer Appointed N8 CIR Theme Lead

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image of a keyboard
Peter Crowther; Gillian Sinclair,

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.

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Mathcad Licence Update - Mathcad users act now!

Anja Le Blanc,

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.

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