Research Engineering Group

The Research Engineering Group is a community of practice at the University of Bristol. It includes interdisciplinary data scientists, research software engineers, research infrastructure engineers, data engineers and friends.

We now have around 30 members, including from the JGI, ACRC, Research IT, Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, LEAP digital health hub, and embedded researchers across the University.

How to get involved

Our main communication via the Slack channel #bristol-rse on the UK RSE slack instance. If you aren’t a member then please sign up to Slack and email us for an invite to the channel. We’d like to encourage use of this for peer-support (and cat photos!) The UK RSE slack also brings together the UK-wide RSE + friends community. If you’re new, then there are lots of helpful channels on this Slack instance and it’s a very active community.

We also have:

  • Mailing list grp-ResearchEngineering which also has a group calendar for our meetings (and somewhere to store all the documents linked to below). We’ll add you to this at the same time as the Slack channel.

  • Group meetings (optional) hybrid in Royal Fort House every two weeks, currently Wednesday mornings.

  • Research computing training for data science and RSE. Self-led courses on GitHub plus we run in-person and online courses during the year. Volunteer helpers welcome!

  • Reading group - currently reading Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath, hybrid in Royal Fort House and on MS Teams, roughly every two weeks.

  • Today I Learned (TIL) GitHub repo – for making interesting things we talk about on Slack more permanent, with minimal fuss. See the ‘contributing TILs’ for instructions.

  • Data Science Handbook GitHub website – in development and contributions welcome!

Also from the JGI

  • Data Ethics Club online journal club about doing data science ethically, every two weeks.

  • Alan Turing Institute liaison academics linking us to the wider Turing network and interest groups, for example.

Contact

You can email us via . Include in your email that you’re interested in joining REG.