Past Events

N8 CIR AI for National Security and Defence workshop

Join us for a workshop to discuss developing ideas for future funding bids to the UKRI for AI applications in National Security and Defence (NS&D)

DRI Retreat 2026

We are partnering with UKRI to host the fourth Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat in Manchester from 23 to 27 March 2026. The in-person registration date has passed, but please register to attend online through the DRI 2026 webpage.

Grace Hopper Drop-in session

A collaborative space for users of Grace Hopper systems to share successes, challenges, practical methods, and lessons learned

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors

Learn how publishing in data journals can increase awareness of your research!

PILOT N8CIR-WHPC Tech Triaging Workshop

If you are a technologist, developer, data scientist, engineer, or researcher who enjoys solving real‑world technical challenges, this is the event for you!

Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities

Bringing together scholars from across the N8 network and beyond, this workshop day explores how environments shaped by water - rivers, shorelines, embankments, irrigation systems, wetlands, and other dynamic landscapes and atmospheres - can be studied, modelled, and interpreted through spatial and digital methods

Child of the North Data Showcase

Child of the North, in partnership with the N8 Centre of Excellence for Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) and the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), will host a one‑day workshop in Manchester focused on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and the power of connected data.

Spatial Data and Mapping in R

Sign up to develop your skills in R to analyse geospatial data

N8CIR RSE Leaders & Aspiring Leaders Meeting

This is a 2-part in-person workshop held at the University of Leeds.

From Overload to Clarity: Tools for Sustainable RSE Practice

Explore how user-centric design and systems thinking can help cut through complexity, reduce overwhelm & amplify your impact.

N8 Online Research Technical Professional Recruitment and Diversity Sandpit

Sign up to join our meeting to inform future strategies to support inclusive and effective recruitment in dRTP across the N8 universities.

Insigneo/Sano Modelathon: Computational modelling to improve management of ischaemic stroke

The Modelathon is back! 

Based on the concept of a hackathon, where different teams work on a challenging problem to ‘hack’ computer code, the Modelathon uses computational modelling and simulation rather than ‘hacking’.