UNIVERSE-HPC will run a hybrid seminar titled "Widening participation in education - what can we learn post-pandemic?" Thursday 29 February, 15:00 - 16:00, followed by a networking session from 16:00 - 17:00. The event will take place online and in person at Imperial College London, Room 658, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus.

The seminar aims to explore through educational examples how programmes such as summer schools, live workshops, term-long courses, longitudinal programmes and others, have changed post-pandemic, enabling more people to access learning opportunities on data science and AI.

The event will feature Mishka Nemes, Skills and Training Manager at The Alan Turing Institute, as speaker. Mishka works at the intersection between AI, Skills and Education. She is interested in Responsible AI practices, deep-tech innovation within AI, as well as in building human-centred open access products with the user communities at the very core. Mishka has a background in computational neuroscience and genetics and is keen to bridge the gap and build connections between her interests and areas of expertise mentioned here.

Training is always evolving, both in terms of the skills researchers need to accomplish their work, but also in how training is provided. The Universe-HPC project aims to define a training curriculum framework – spanning from undergraduate to continuing professional development level – for Research Software Engineers (RSEs) specialising in high performance computing (HPC), and in August we piloted a small online training workshop to not only roadtest new training materials, but also to explore new ways to deliver that training.