The N8 CIR focuses on the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in CIR methods, skills, and facilities to underpin the strategic research objectives of the N8 universities. This CoE will accelerate progress in areas of research that are of strategic importance to the N8 partners, including some that have not made heavy use of technology in the past. Find out more about the N8 CIR and N8 Research Partnership.
EPSRC-funded Winter Internships 2025/6
N8 CIR Summer Internship Programme 2026
The N8/Bede AI for Science Project
Child of the North Data Showcase
Research Themes
How we can support you in your research
Online HPC Training
Bede Supercomputer
Case Studies
AI for Science
Learn about this project that carried out a number of dRTP led interventions to help researchers overcome barriers to using Bede.
WINTER INTERNSHIPS
For the 2025/6 academic year we received funding from EPSRC for student interns to work on projects to develop their computation skills or learn about how digital research infrastructure is helping researchers at their institution.
N8 CIR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS 2026
Our summer internships have now concluded with our interns presenting their work in a Showcase in York in September.
EVENT RESOURCES
We share presentations and slides from selected events we have hosted. Recent meetings have focussed on Data FAIRifcation, publishing in Data Journals and working with and managing sensitive data
BEDE USERS UPDATE
From 01 August 2026, this facility is exclusively for the use of members of Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and York universities. Researchers from outside these institutions will be expected to remove their data by Friday 31 July.