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Technical Training in the Time of COVID-19

Douglas Lowe, 23 Apr 2020

With the campus in lockdown, we have moved some of our courses online but how does this work in practice? Is it possible to have the same level of interaction as you do in a classroom? Douglas Lowe tells of his experience.

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Mobile Development Service Making Remote Working Standard

Adrian Harwood, 21 Apr 2020

In this article, Adrian Harwood from the Mobile Development Service (MDS) discusses how the established way of working in MDS has meant that campus closure has had a minimal effect on their ability to deliver a quality service for University researchers.

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Restricted Data Research in the Cloud

Gary Leeming, 16 Apr 2020

If your research involves restricted data you may feel that your computational choices are reduced. Gary Leeming, Project Design Lead for Research Lifecycle Programme Project S "Develop a service to manage restricted data", discusses what the University is doing to open up more options.

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Happy Birthday MDS!

Adrian Harwood, 8 Apr 2020

Launched on 1st April 2019, the Mobile Development Service from Research IT is now one-year-old. It has proven to be a very popular addition to the Research IT catalogue over the last twelve months. The service has contributed to research projects across all 3 faculties, delivering 9 apps to date with 8 more in development or planned for the remainder of 2020. In this article we look at some of the what we think are the best features we have delivered to developer.

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Free Mathematica Courses

Anja Le Blanc, 3 Apr 2020

Learn Data Science, Data Visualisation and Image Processing for Free

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Avizo and Volume Graphics Licence Updates

Martin Turner, 1 Apr 2020

If you are continuing to work from home and need access to specialised software packages both Avizo and Volume Graphics have home licences available.

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April Top Tip - Working from home with multiple (virtual) desktops

Ian Cottam, 1 Apr 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak now means that most people are working from home but how do you adapt when perhaps you don’t have the same equipment as you do in your university office? Ian Cottam offers some tips on working from home with virtual desktops.

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PRACE COVID-19 Project Call

Lee Margetts, 31 Mar 2020

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is welcoming project proposals requesting computing resources to contribute to the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cyber Essentials Scheme

John Craige, 30 Mar 2020

IT Services has renewed the University’s Cyber Essentials compliance. The renewed certification will last until February 2021, and will be assessed/renewed on an annual basis.

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MATLAB Licence Update

Gillian Sinclair, 30 Mar 2020

The MathWorks has provided The University with a licence to download and install the full suite of MATLAB products on to both staff and students’ own, or University provided, computers.

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NVivo Licence Update

Sarah Franke, 26 Mar 2020

The University site licence for NVivo has been updated


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OriginPro License Assistance

Anja Le Blanc, 24 Mar 2020

If you use OriginPro please see their latest announcement regarding licensing.

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