Past Events

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’.

Best Practices in AI

We are excited to collaborate with the University of Sheffield on their Best Practices in AI Afternoon

Working with and Managing Sensitive Research Data

This FREE one-day workshop will focus on the challenges and complexities of working with sensitive data.