How will our training help you?
Our training courses cover a wide range of topics on developing quality software for open and reproducible research and make it easy to meet the UK research funders' software development requirements without investing your own resources into creating new training, and without duplicating existing training materials and courses.
Audience
We provide support for training for researchers at different skill levels: complete novices who want to start developing software for their research using established best practices, beginners looking to improve their skills and practices, and intermediate learners, whose research software projects are becoming more complex and are involving more stakeholders.
Methodology
Our courses are hands-on and employ live coding techniques where instructors demonstrate a series of steps which the students then replicate on their own computers. Students gain a good understanding of the coding techniques and confidence in continuing to learn, and leave the course with their machines set up with working code that can be later adapted further for their own research.
Bespoke courses
We are experts in analysing training needs to identify the right kind of training for your audience. We teach pedagogical principles in how best to teach tech to researchers through Instructor Training, and promote The Carpentries' lesson infrastructure, used by domain experts to write their own bespoke training materials built on the same teaching principles and formats that can be reused by a large pool of instructors from the wider community.
Outcomes
Through our training activities, we empower the research community in academia and industry to write code to produce results that are both reliable and reproducible, while improving efficiency in the workplace. We equip experts in the community with pedagogical skills to develop courses, share their knowledge, and cater for training needs in their own evolving communities.
Our partnership with The Carpentries
The Institute shares The Carpentries’ vision of teaching researchers to develop software that contributes to correct, reproducible and reusable research. We want to show the benefits of open development, sharing and collaborating with a community as well as best practices in openness, crediting, citing and developing research software.
We became involved with what was then Software Carpentry in 2012 by developing online courses in advanced shell tricks and systems programming in Python. Since then, we have been supporting The Carpentries in running foundational software training for researchers, as well as Instructor Training and Lesson Development Training programmes - giving people skills and tools to enable them to cater for training needs in their own evolving communities. Since 2011, we've facilitated the delivery of over 500 Carpentry workshops in the UK and developed an array of courses for various domains.
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