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Got a Short-term Project? We Can Help!


Did you know that our pool of Research Software Engineers are not just available for long-term, big money projects? Even if you have very little funding or a very small amount of work for us to do, come and speak to us!
Disseminating Student Projects


Dr Sarah MacQuarrie from the Institute of Education has developed a new way of disseminating and promoting student projects with a little help from our Research Software Engineers.
Bright Future Ahead for Research Software Engineering at Manchester


Adrian Harwood was appointed Head of Research Software Engineering (RSE) in Research IT in August. He has spent the last few months looking at how to take the RSE team to the next level in order to meet the growing needs of the research community here at the University.
CORONET Recognised in Journal of Clinical Oncology


CORONET, a tool created by our Research Software Engineers (RSEs), has recently been featured in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO): Clinical Cancer Informatics. Find out more about the paper’s findings which explain how the Machine Learning model was created and presented to the healthcare community.
New Head of Research Software Engineering Announced


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).
Meet Our Year in Industry Students!


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).
Promoting Open Research


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.
Aiding Breast Cancer Prevention in Under-supported Groups


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.
Shiny App Pilot Service Launched


If you're an R user, Shiny lets you build interactive web apps to share your work with the world. Find out how we can help you do it with our new Shiny pilot service.
Introducing Software Citation


In August, GitHub announced software citation support in GitHub repositories. Discover how Rob Haines, Head of Research IT, played an instrumental role in making this happen.
Tackling Hay Fever One Tool at a Time


Ann Gledson, Research Software Engineer, is working with researchers from Computer Science and the Alan Turing Institute to investigate the relationship between hay fever and air quality.
LinguaSnapp Gets a Facelift


Read about the new LinguaSnapp mobile app developed by our Mobile Development Service (MDS). Supporting the Multi-Lingual Manchester project, it is available in three flavours (Manchester, Jerusalem and Melbourne) and was built for Android and iOS using our favourite .NET cross platform framework.