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The N8 CIR focusses on the methods, skills, and facilities that underpin the strategic research objectives of the N8 universities.

Links to resources from events, training, and seminar series run by the N8 CIR for our key research themes and research support are provided here.

An overview of the talks and presentations from the N8 CIR RSE Meet Up in Leeds on 9 July.

An overview of the talks and presentations from the N8 CIR Success in the Cloud event in Manchester on 17 October 2019.

A review of N8 CIR's Career Development Meet-up. The page includes insight from RSE team leads about the recruitment process as well as practical tips about how to identify job opportunities, prepare for an interview, and career development advice.

On 21 June N8 CIR organised its third meeting of research software engineers. Taking place online the event featured presentations and discussions about the role of RSEs across the N8 Research Partnership.

A collection of presentations and information from meetings held for the N8 CIR Research Software Engineering community.

These case studies describe work done by our N8 Researchers and how they have benefitted from collaboration and working with the centre. We have categories for all our research and cross-cutting themes.

Julie discusses an interdisciplinary project that characterises cells based on their morphology and movement monitored by time-lapse imaging.

Elizabeth discusses her work, which is a joint project between the University of York and Croda Europe Ltd.

Helena talks about her work with Respire, a dashboard that captures, aggregates, and visualises healthcare data.

Richard discusses GetSet, a web app that enables researchers to construct sets of clinical codes from health databases for research.

Peter-John discusses SAVSNET, which collects veterinary clinical notes and questionnaire data from 15% of UK veterinary practices, alongside veterinary laboratory test results from the larger UK clinical laboratories, accounting for around 60% of all UK veterinary lab submissions.

Fiona Menger and Becky Osselton discuss the development of DAAWN (Digitised Assessment for Aphasia of Written Naming), which is being used for people with aphasia.

Thea shares information on a pilot research project that set out to explore how new generative AI programmes for visual art represent Indigenous peoples and cultures.

Mark and Stephen discuss the Condition and Risk Assessment Portal (CARE) project, which supports the management of open-air rock art, also known as cups and rings, in the UK, Ireland, and beyond.

Susan Fitzmaurice and Seth Mehl share the Linguistic DNA (LDNA) project, which has been exploring textual meaning by identifying lexical, semantic, and pragmatic patterns in over one billion words, across over 60,000 printed English documents from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Kate discusses the Digital Storytelling project, which was led by Newcastle University researcher, Dr Michael Richardson.

Dan and Alex talk about the use of computational modelling in supporting police services.

Marion Weinzierl and Mariann Hardey discuss the official recognition of the N8 CIR as a chapter of the Women in HPC (WHPC) movement in November 2021.

These case studies offer insight into how RSEs work with researchers to overcome challenges and accelerate discovery.

Mark talks about the research the team at CEMAC is currently working on, which covers a broad range of environmental computational tasks.

Ed discusses the development of the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) group at Durham University.

Pete's group is co-designing an affordable, robust, and open-source system for improved air quality management in West Africa.

Mark talks about his team's work in developing innovative methods of single-molecule biophysics to address a range of complex biological questions, specifically the development of PySTACHIO.

Working with a multi-disciplinary team, Peter's project seeks to set up an agent-based model (ABM) that can reproduce the patterns of progress seen in real-world data.

Sam Bland from the University of York is taking over from Marion Weinzierl as our new Research Software Engineer (RSE) Theme Lead. In an interview with us, he discusses his plans for the theme going forward.

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