April 2026 Newsletter

13 April 2026 13:00

The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter April 2026

Welcome to the April 2026 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring news, opportunities, events and training for you.


News

  • RSE FORGE Calls: Get two days of focused RSE support to help improve your research software. This call is open throughout the year for University of Sheffield researchers looking to get free focused RSE time for their research software.
  • To celebrate 10 years of the FAIR Principles, the University Library is delighted to announce the FAIR Data and Software Awards, recognising staff who have demonstrated best practice in making their digital research outputs FAIR: Findable (F), Accessible (A), Interoperable (I), and Reusable (R). Winners and runners-up will receive £200 and £100 vouchers respectively, and opportunities to enhance the visibility of their work across the University and beyond.
    • The competition is open to PGRs and academic, technical, and professional staff at any career stage and from any discipline, School, or department.
    • Submission Deadline: 17th April, 2026
    • Outcomes announced: 30th April 2026

Events

FAIR2 for Research Software Training

The FAIR2 for Research Software training continues with the following courses which are bookable via the myDevelopment links below (you need to be signed into MUSE to access these).

Upcoming Events in Sheffield

  • DRINKS - Open Research for Engineers
    • Speaker: Prof Jo Gavins (Institutional Research Practice Lead)
    • 2026-04-22 12:00-13:00
    • In person at Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 02 - E05, and online via Google Meet
    • Registration form

Upcoming External Events


Articles, Blogs, Papers, Pre-Prints, Podcasts/Videos & Books

Blogs

Pre-Prints

Books


Opportunities


Jobs


Community

Digital Research Practice Support Community

The DRPS community is a group for people that support researchers in carrying out research in the digital age. Meetings are held monthly, with discussions around events, training and opportunities related to the field.

You can join the google group here to stay informed.

The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 2026-05-20.

Support

Code Clinics

Why not come to a Code Clinic? We’re keen to help you.

Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ Research IT team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices.

At each session, members of the RSE and/or Research IT teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and suggest ways to improve your computational workflows.

Research IT HPC Drop In

HPC Drop-In sessions are providing assistance with HPC related user issues such as challenges in scaling an application from desktop to supercomputer. We are considering extending the number of our sessions to two or three weekly. These interactive sessions could provide a better interface with our users than our non-interactive ticketing system. These sessions are advertised on the HPC mailing list.

Research IT Consultations

Alongside the HPC Drop-In sessions, Research IT are also running one to one consultations to solve in depth user specific problems. These consultations can be booked via our webpage. If you are interested please visit the following link: https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research.


Sheffield RSE Team

The Sheffield RSE Team aims to collaborate with you to help improve your research software. They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research projects.

Research IT

Research IT directly supports research, both academic and commercial. We provide large scale HPC systems, advice on everything from statistics to ML to data pipelines and training for both students and staff.

Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.

Contact Us

For queries relating to collaborating with the RSE team on projects: rse@sheffield.ac.uk

Information and access to Bede.

Join our mailing list so as to be notified when we advertise talks and workshops by subscribing to this Google Group.

Queries regarding free research computing support/guidance should be raised via our Code clinic or directed to the University IT helpdesk.

List of archived pages: Archive.