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The Festival of Maintenance and software

My Fellowship is structured around the Festival of Maintenance, a celebration of those who maintain different parts of our world and how they do it. It recognises the often hidden work done in repair, custodianship, stewardship, tending and caring for the things that matter.

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Designing engaging online events to counteract Zoom fatigue and get stuff done

Throughout May and June we held a series of writing sprints and invited members of our community of practice to author “recipes” for virtual event formats. The result was a guidebook of 12 event formats, which was downloaded almost 4,000 times in the first two weeks after publication.
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Modelling Covid-19 Spread in Local Areas with the Flu And Coronavirus Simulator

Authorities worldwide are using increasingly localised public health measures to try to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of these decisions are guided by the outcomes of observations and models that operate on a national level. At Brunel and within the HiDALGO project, we developed the Flu And Coronavirus Simulator (FACS) to understand the viral spread in local areas.
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News

Connect with the Institute on LinkedIn

Follow our LinkedIn page for updates on our activities and to join in conversations on research software.
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Call for posters on software productivity and sustainability

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) are calling for poster submissions to the Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE21).
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Register now for Gateways 2020

Register by Monday 5 October to save your virtual seat at Gateways 2020. Organised by Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), the online event will take place from 12-23 October.

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Events

Collaborations Workshop 2020 Online

Collaborations Workshop 2020

Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) takes place from Tuesday, 31st March to Thursday, 2nd April 2020 online. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.

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CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019

In affiliation with The Carpentries, The Software Sustainability Institute is organising the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester from 25th to 27th June 2019.
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Collaborations Workshop 2019

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) will take place from Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd April 2019 at Loughborough University in the West Park Teaching Hub. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
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"It adds development time, doing things right, but it's worth it. Our code is miles away from where it was. [The work has] really made a profound change to the way we do coding, even down to the way I write lines of code. We now understand the complexity involved in making things run smoothly – it's really been a very good learning experience"

- Prashant Valluri, TPLS