STEP-UP Events
This page provides details of our STEP-UP project events.
Upcoming STEP-UP project events
Software Carpentry workshop: Introductory Shell, Git, and Python for research
Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025 - Friday 5 December 2025
This Software Carpentry workshop is for researchers developing software or process data as part of their research. It will provide an introduction to working with the Unix/Linux command line (bash shell), version control (git), and programming in Python to support more efficient and reproducible research. See the schedule and register
Building a comprehensive and coordinated training landscape for dRTPs
Date: Thursday 27 November 2025, 10:30-16:00 BST
There are many repositories of excellent dRTP training, e.g. the Carpentries, CodeRefinery, ELIXIR, HDR UK Futures, DRESA… So if we’re developing new training, how do we make sure we’re (1) not duplicating effort and (2) developing training for all the skills needed? This workshop is for anyone involved in developing, delivering, or investing in skills training for research software, data, and computing infrastructure professionals. Register here
Performance Profiling & Optimisation for Python
Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025, 10:00-17:30 GMT (TBC)
Is your research code (in Python) slower than you’d like it to be? Do you want to optimise your code performance, but you’re not sure how? This introductory level workshop will show you how to assess where time is being spent during execution of a Python program and introduce good practices for optimising your code. It will also provide a high level overview of how code executes and how this maps to the limiting factors of performance. Hosted by the King’s College London e-Research team, in person at the King’s College London Strand campus.
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Software Carpentry: Introduction to Python, version control, and the Unix shell
Date: Monday 3 November 2025 - Tuesday 4 November 2025
Carpentries workshops teach computational skills that help researchers work more efficiently, using lessons and datasets that allow researchers to quickly apply what they have learned to their own work. This workshop is suitable for researchers with little to no prior computational experience and will include an introduction to the Unix shell; programming in Python; and version control with Git. Hosted by the King’s College London e-Research team, in person at the King’s College London Strand campus.
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Previous STEP-UP project events
Building central research computation facilities at London universities
Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025, 12:30-16:00 BST
What does it take to build a central research computing facility in a university setting? This session explores the practical, strategic, and cultural dimensions of establishing shared infrastructure for research computing in research performing organisations in London. This event is co-organised by the STEP-UP project and King’s College London RSE community.
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Recognising research software: licensing, credit, and quality
Date: Thursday 4 September 2025, 12:30-17:00 BST
Software is a cornerstone of modern research, but too often it’s overlooked as a formal research output. This session is for research software engineers and researchers who want to ensure their code is protected, reusable, and professionally recognised. We’ll unpack the essentials of copyright and licensing for research software: how to choose a licence that aligns with your goals, navigate intellectual property (IP) ownership, ensure your software is legally reusable by others, handle third-party dependencies, document your licensing choices, and align with institutional or funder policies.
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STEP-UP RSLondon Conference 2025
Date: Monday 7 July 2025, 10:00-16:30 BST
Join us at One Birdcage Walk for the 6th edition of our regional community conference. We’re expanding the event to have separate tracks focusing on research software, research data and research computing infrastructure.
See the Conference page for full details and to register.
Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2025
Date: Monday 30 June 2025, 08:30-19:00 BST
The DH & RSE Summer School 2025, hosted at King’s College London, Strand Campus, combines talks and practical activities and will explore how the intersection of digital humanities and software engineering is shaped across different UK institutions. Participants will have an opportunity to gain an invaluable insight into the roles and practices of Research Software Engineering in Digital Humanities research.
Further information and registration
UCL Open Science Festival / STEP-UP dRTP event
Date: Tuesday 3 June 2025, 14:00-16:00 BST
Calling all researchers and research technology professionals to come together to discuss challenges and opportunities to support open research! This event is part of the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025 and will focus on the skills and training needed to enable research software engineers, data stewards, and computational infrastructure developers to support researchers working to create a culture of Open Science. If you are a researcher - what do you need in terms of technical support and services? If you are a research technology professional - what skills and training do you need to be able to offer this support?
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STEP-UP Imperial RSE community event 2025
Date: Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-17:00 BST
Join us for our next STEP-UP/RSLondon/Imperial RS Community get-together on Friday 30th May 2025 at Imperial’s White City Campus. The event will provide an informal forum for members of the community to share experiences, network and learn about new tools and techniques which might benefit their own work.
Further information and registration
STEP-UP Westminster dRTP event 2025
Date: Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-16:00 BST
As research is becoming increasingly computational and the demand for dRTPs is growing rapidly, we see different models emerging for where these technical professionals are based. When is it better for dRTPs to be embedded in research groups vs in central teams? Join us to explore how different universities in London organise their software, data and computing infrastructure professionals. What factors lie behind embedding this expertise within discipline-specific teams, or within central teams? What are the pros and cons of each system? This event is organised by the STEP-UP project and is hosted by the University of Westminster.
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