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Denis Barclay

Denis Barclay

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Posted on 2 April 2026

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Building Better Research Software workshop

Building Better Research Software 5-8 May

The Building Better Research Software workshop will take place over multiple days from Tuesday 5 May to Friday 8 May, from 9:30am to 1pm. There will also be a mandatory pre-workshop setup session on Friday 1 May from 10am to 12pm.

The Building Better Research Software course teaches tools and practices for producing and sharing quality, sustainable and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) research software to support open and reproducible research.

The course is targeted to:
  • Post-graduate students, early career researchers or junior Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who are starting their research or software projects, have foundational knowledge of Python, version control and using software tools from command line shell, and want to develop software to support their research using established best practices.
  • Researchers or scientists who had foundational software training before but wish to refresh, reinforce or improve their skills and practices in the wider context of FAIR scientific practice and sharing and writing software for open and reproducible research.
Foundational knowledge of the following is required to be able to understand code examples used in the course:
  • Python used to write scientific code
  • Version control with Git
  • Working in a command line interface (shell)
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This workshop is funded by UKRN and is initially open only to members of the network - the list of eligible institutions is as follows:

Abertay University
Alan Turing Institute
Aston University
Babraham Institute
Bangor University
Birkbeck, University of London
Brunel University
Cardiff University
City, University of London
CRUK Scotland Institute
Durham University
Edge Hill University
Francis Crick Institute
Health Sciences University
Imperial College London
Keele University
King's College London
Kingston University
Lancaster University
Leeds Arts University
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Trinity University
Liverpool John Moore's University
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
London School of Economics (LSE)
London School of Economics and Political Science
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Loughborough University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Newcastle University
Northumbria University
Nothingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University
Oxford Brookes University
Queen Mary University London
Queen Mary University of London
Queen's University Belfast
Robert Gordon University
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Veterinary College
Sheffield Hallam University
Swansea University
The Open University
University College London
University College London (UCL)
University of Aberdeen
University of Bath
University of Birmingham
University of Brighton
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
University of Chester
University of Dundee
University of East Anglia
University of East London
University of Edinburgh
University of Essex
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
University of Greenwich
University of Hertfordshire
University of Hull
University of Kent
University of Leeds
University of Leicester
University of Liverpool
University of Manchester
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Plymouth
University of Portsmouth
University of Reading
University of Salford
University of Sheffield
University of Southampton
University of Stirling
University of Strathclyde
University of Sunderland
University of Surrey
University of Sussex
University of the West of England
University of the West of Scotland
University of Warwick
University of Westminster
University of Wolverhampton
University of York
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