ByteSized dRTP is a series of events providing key research software, research data and research computing infrastructure skills in just 90 minutes!

STEP-UP’s series’ of “ByteSized” sessions are based on “byte-sized” format developed in the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
As with the sessions run under UNIVERSE-HPC, each STEP-UP ByteSized session includes a companion podcast episode released through the Code for Thought podcast series.
In the ByteSized dRTP sessions being run by STEP-UP, the topic areas have been expanded from a focus on research software skills to a wider group of topics that are intended to support the whole digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTP) community. This will include sessions covering research software, research data and research computing infrastructure topics.
See below for details of upcoming sessions and links to podcasts and other outputs from previous STEP-UP ByteSized dRTP sessions.
For any questions related to the series, or if you’d like to run a session on a topic that we’ve not yet covered, you can get in touch with the STEP-UP team.

Future STEP-UP ByteSized dRTP sessions

Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash (cropped)

Series 1, Episode 1: ByteSized dRTP: Research Software Sharing, Publication, & Distribution Checklists

Date: Thursday 26 February, 2026  14:00-15:30 GMT

Instructor(s): Richard Acton

Links:

Registration: Register here (registration will open soon)

Further information to appear soon.

Prerequisites: In order to participate in the interactive part of this ByteSized session you will need:

  • To have a GitHub or GitLab account.
  • To have an open source project that you own and are happy to use as an example with which to try the application of the sharing, publication, and distribution checklists that will be presented in this session.

If you don’t have the required prerequisites for the session, you are welcome to join the session and watch the instructor working through the interactive aspects of the session.