STEP-UP Blog

Welcome to our STEP-UP project blog! In this blog section of the website we’ll be publishing regular blog posts by members of the STEP-UP project team, our collaborators and members of the wider technical professionals community. We’ll also occasionally be cross-posting relevant content published by members of our team under open licences at other locations.

• What are the training pathways into being a dRTP?

  A core aspect of STEP-UP is providing our community with the support to develop the skills that they need. These should create additional routes for individuals to widen their skills, especially at more advanced levels.

• The STEP-UP RSLondon Conference 2025

  The STEP-UP RSLondon conference 2025 was our biggest regional dRTP gathering yet, and our first to have parallel tracks for research software, research data and research computing infrastructure.

• Open Science Workshop: Professionalising data, software, and infrastructure support to transform open science

  What is the role of upksilling dRTPs to promote open science?

• Supporting digital Research Technical Professionals: Building a community, shaping careers

  With a growing recognition of the technical skills needed to underpin modern research, a UKRI-funded project has been launched to support a community of professionals with these skills. In this blog post, project leader Jeremy Cohen describes STEP-UP and how it will give this community the infrastructure they deserve.