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Upcoming Events

The N8 CIR has developed a growing network that now includes over 1500 researchers and research support professionals who participate in in-person and online training events and focused community meetings. Listed below are events that may be of interest in the coming months.

If you are considering holding an event and would like our support, or organising an event yourself and want to advertise it here and on the N8 CIR network, please fill in our EVENT PLANNING FORM.

To be kept up to date with our upcoming events, you can follow us on our Eventbrite page.

As part of our commitment to making our events accessible, we offer a bursary to anyone who feels they are unable to attend due to financial barriers. Please find out more on our bursaries page.

22 JAN
2026

From Overload to Clarity: Tools for Sustainable RSE Practice

Registration is closing soon  1 day event   Cloth Hall Court

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

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05 FEB
2026

N8CIR RSE Leaders & Aspiring Leaders Meeting

Registration is open  1 day event   University of Leeds, venue to be confirmed

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

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18 FEB
2026

Spatial Data and Mapping in R

Registration is open  1 day event   Castle Suite, Lancaster Castle

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

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23 FEB
2026

Child of the North Data Showcase

Apply to attend now  1 day event   Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER

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.

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27 FEB
2026

Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities

Registration is open  1 day event   Lancaster Castle

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

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23 — 27
MAR
2026

DRI Retreat 2026

Registration is open  5 day event   Pendulum Hotel and Manchester Conference Centre

We are partnering with UKRI to host the fourth Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat in Manchester from 23 to 27 March 2026.

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