March 2026 Newsletter

The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter March 2026

Welcome to the March 2026 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring news, opportunities, events and training for you.

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News

• RSE FORGE Calls: Get two days of focused RSE support to help improve your research software. This call is open throughout the year for University of Sheffield researchers looking to get free focused RSE time for their research software.

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Events

FAIR² for Research Software Training

The FAIR² for Research Software training continues with the following courses which are bookable via the myDevelopment links below (you need to be signed into MUSE to access these).

• 2026-03-19 Packaging
• 2026-04-29 Documentation
• 2026-05-11 Publishing

Upcoming External Events

• RSECon26 Call for Submissions, Reviewers and Emerging Voices Opens. You may have heard that the Society of RSEs annual conference will be held in Sheffield 9-11th September this year. Submissions are now open and there is a Webinar 2026-03-10 to introduce the team and discuss the submissions and reviewers call.
• GPU Programming using OpenMP this course will provide an introduction to GPU programming with directives, aimed at scientific application programmers wishing to develop their own software. Online 10:00-12:00 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-18
• Grace Hopper Drop-in session an open, interactive online event designed specifically for the academic high‑performance computing community interested in exploring the power of NVIDIA Grace Hopper architecture in computational workflows. 2026-03-11
• BriCS x Turing - Isambard-AI workshop 2026-03-12 NB - Registration has closed but you can joint the waiting list
• Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals is an online 8 week modular training from the CSCCE for scientific community managers 2026-03-19 to 2026-05-07
• Documenting open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: MORPHSS Catalogue launch event and panel discussion this event introduces the MORPHSS Catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences and invites responses and discussion from an invited panel of experts across these fields. 2026-03-19
• London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 2026-04-20 to 2026-04-24

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Articles, Blogs, Papers & Podcasts

Articles & Blogs

• UKRI Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation Strategic Framework
• HPC Carpentry Approved into The Carpentries Lesson Programmes
• Co-Creating DAHRSE Midlands: Vision, Voices, and Next Steps
• 2026 International RSE Survey Closes 2026-03-20
• Shaping the Future of dRTP Training: Join the RSESociety 2026 Landscape Survey Closes 2026-03-31

RSE Sheffield Blog Updates

• Research Software Engineering Sheffield - Managing Research Code at Sheffield: Getting Started with GitHub Organisations

Papers

• How generative AI is shaping research software development and maintenance at a research-intensive university

Podcasts & Videos

• ByteSized: how to get your (digital) ducks in a row - with Richard Acton

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Opportunities

• Short Industry Fellowships part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, enables scientists employed in industry or academia and/or their postdoctoral researcher to have shorter more dynamic engagements between academia and industry, working on a mutually beneficial and collaborative project. Opens 2026-04-02

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Jobs

• Research Software Engineer - Forecast-in-a-box (DestinE), Forecasts and Services Department. A 2 year position with possibility of extensions. Closing date 2026-03-29

Community

Digital Research Practice Support Community

The DRPS community is a group for people that support researchers in carrying out research in the digital age. Meetings are held monthly, with discussions around events, training and opportunities related to the field.

You can join the google group here to stay informed.

The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 2026-03-25.

Support

Code Clinics

Why not come to a Code Clinic? We’re keen to help you.

Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ Research IT team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices.

At each session, members of the RSE and/or Research IT teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and suggest ways to improve your computational workflows.

Research IT HPC Drop In

HPC Drop-In sessions are providing assistance with HPC related user issues such as challenges in scaling an application from desktop to supercomputer. We are considering extending the number of our sessions to two or three weekly. These interactive sessions could provide a better interface with our users than our non-interactive ticketing system. These sessions are advertised on the HPC mailing list.

Research IT Consultations

Alongside the HPC Drop-In sessions, Research IT are also running one to one consultations to solve in depth user specific problems. These consultations can be booked via our webpage. If you are interested please visit the following link: https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research.

Sheffield RSE Team

The Sheffield RSE Team aims to collaborate with you to help improve your research software. They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research projects.

Research IT

Research IT directly supports research, both academic and commercial. We provide large scale HPC systems, advice on everything from statistics to ML to data pipelines and training for both students and staff.

Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.