STEP-UP Events
This page provides details of our STEP-UP project events.
Upcoming STEP-UP project events
Recognising research software: licensing, credit, and quality
Date: Thursday 4 September 2025, 12:30:00-17:00:00 +0100
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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Previous STEP-UP project events
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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