Celebrating the women in our team – Serena Cooper
How team manager Serena Cooper ended up in IT and her thoughts on how we can support our female colleagues. I started with the Research IT team in May 2020 during lockdown. I love this job as it brings...
View ArticleCelebrating the women in our team – Tessa Alexander
I am a Research Software Engineer in Research IT at the University of Bristol and have worked in IT for over 20 years. I found a love of coding while taking A-level Computing. I come from a web...
View ArticleCelebrating the women in our team – Charlotte Mason
Being asked to put together a few words for International Women’s Day has provided me with a great opportunity to reflect upon who and what has led me to reach the position I’m in today, working as a...
View ArticleCelebrating the women in our team – Claire Webster
At school, I was the child who sat quietly in the corner, and whose every school report said in some form of words “Claire is very quiet and needs to participate in class discussion more”. It wasn’t...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of a new service
Research IT primarily does software development for new services, but there is more to commissioning a new service than just writing code. Behind the scenes, Research IT takes new services through the...
View ArticleWe are recruiting – what’s it like in our team?
The Research IT team is recruiting for an assistant developer, so we thought it might be a good idea to write a blog post about life in our team and what an assistant developer role means to us. The...
View ArticleDeveloper deep dive –“It’s a breeze” game
If you haven’t played the “It’s a breeze” game go and do it now and then come back, we’ll wait…. Contents Project summary Technology selection Working with short timescales and a strict deadline...
View ArticleInternational RSE day – Why be an RSE?
To celebrate the first International Research Software Engineers (RSE) day our team wanted to promote becoming an RSE as a career path and raise awareness of Research Software Engineering in general....
View ArticleWorking with Beyond 2022: a plugin to markup regnal dates in TEI/XML
I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to collaborate with the Beyond 2022 project. I’ve been helping historians and archivists on the project develop a TEI/XML schema that will be used to...
View ArticleChina Migrants Visualisation Experiments
I recently joined Research IT from a Java developer role within the University of Bristol. I was eager to learn new skills, including Python – the primary language used by my new team. I spent a couple...
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