Within Research IT the Research Infrastructure team has a wealth of experience in building and supporting computational platforms, storage, VMs, Web servers and a wide variety of custom, local infrastructure for research groups.
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New Research IT Grant Support Clinic
Research IT are launching a new series of sessions where you can discover more about Research IT, the skills and services that we offer and, importantly, how to include them in your grant proposals.
EPSRC Directly Funds Manchester RSEs
In the last few years members of Research IT have been helping in the campaign for the Research Councils to directly recognise and fund career paths via fellowships within a Research Software Engineering (RSE) role.
Manchester Modelling Network Launch
The first meeting of the Manchester Modelling Network will take place on Wed 15th Feb in Renold E1. The Network is aimed at facilitating new collaborations / research applications rather than being a research seminar.
Research IT Hitting the Headlines with Linguasnapp
A mobile phone app developed by Research IT has been hitting the headlines recently. Featured on ITV news and Granada Reports as well as in The Daily Mirror, the Manchester Evening News and local newspapers across the region, Linguasnapp is enabling researchers to identify the range of languages used in Manchester.
Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Launch Study Catalogue
Our Research software engineers (RSEs) are helping researchers in the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research launch a tool for sharing best practice in study design and management. The Extant Study Catalogue will allow researchers at Manchester and further afield to share details of their study design, datasets and coding practices, with a view to developing a shared data dictionary that can be used to make studies more easily comparable.
Research IT Club Presentations Out Now!
The presentations from the first meeting of the Research IT club are now available online. They include an introduction to Research IT and research infrastructure, a presentation on how Research IT have helped to speed up proteomics research and an overview of the new Dropbox for Business service.
DSI Call for Small Projects
The Data Science Institute invites submissions for proposals with the potential to develop successful interdisciplinary data science activities at The University of Manchester. Joint applications from researchers developing collaborations across different disciplines are encouraged.
Developing Virtual Laboratories
Two members of Research IT are co-authors on a recently published paper in BMC Ecology. The paper describes the development and implementation of “BioVeL” – a virtual laboratory for data analysis and modelling in biodiversity science and ecology.
LinguaSnapp Goes Global with the Help of Research IT
LinguaSnapp is a project to create multilingual landscape maps of cities round the world by crowdsourcing data from the public. Last year Research IT created a mobile app and web application for the project to focus on the city of Manchester.
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