Software written by our team has enabled medical staff at the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University and the Dept. of Critical Care at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust to make tracheostomy interventions safer and easier to perform.

Our new Year In Industry students accompanied our Research Software Engineering team to the University of Sheffield for RSECon26. What did they make of their first academic conference?

This year we are hosting two Year in Industry students from the University of Manchester and the University of Birmingham. They will be an integral part of our team for the next year and will be working on an exciting range of projects!

Several of our Research Software Engineers spent this summer supporting a research internship where environmental-science students learnt how to analyse cutting-edge meteorological simulations of damaging windstorms.

Phil Bradbury, Research Software Engineer, and Adrian Harwood, Head of Research Software Engineering, introduce COMPASS. a community supporting digital research technical leaders to share operational best practice across institutions.

Collaborating with groups internationally can be challenging due to time zones and distances. Discover how our team used agile methods to successfully collaborate with the Center for Open Science (USA), why it worked and learn some techniques for using Agile in your own projects.

Head of Research Software Engineering (RSE) Adrian Harwood shares his thoughts on the shape of RSE services in the age of vibe coding.

An upgrade of the Dalton Nuclear Simulator by the Research Software Engineering team brought new life to a legacy educational platform used to explore nuclear reactor operations through interactive gameplay. Discover how our team strengthened a valuable tool for teaching, research, and scientific engagement.

Our Research Software Engineers (RSEs) worked with Dr Réka Solymosi from the School of Social Sciences to build a mobile app that helps women record where, when and why they felt unsafe during their runs – making a complex data gathering requirement possible in the form of a practical, usable product.

Researchers from across the UK came to Manchester in April for an ARCHER2 and Research IT course on intermediate research software development. Through hands-on exercises and flexible materials, they gained practical skills to write better, more sustainable code.

A two-phase collaboration between the Cai Lab and the Research Software Engineering team transformed a legacy Strain Database into a modern, scalable platform. The upgrade improved reliability, usability, and flexibility to better support the ongoing research needs of the lab.

When researchers are getting ready to publish a paper, they increasingly want to publish their software as well. Quite often, though, research software isn’t initially ready for public consumption. This is where Research IT can help.