Collaborations Workshop 2026

ARC Forum

Patrick Roddy

UCL ARC

Chris Gutschow

UCL ARC

Connor Aird

UCL ARC

David Pérez Suárez

UCL ARC

Duncan Leggat

UCL ARC

Hollie Rowland

UCL ARC

Jeremy Stein

UCL ARC

Jonathan Cooper

UCL ARC

Samantha Ahern

UCL ARC

Sofía Miñano

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

2026-06-09

Overview

Collaborations Workshop

  • Organised by the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).
  • Past outputs include the Research Software Engineering as a career path and the CITATION.cff file format.
  • Three day “unconference”.
  • Emphasis on collaborations, dynamic discussions, and hands-on problem-solving.
  • This year’s theme was Strengthening the Research Software Community.

Location

ICC Belfast

Our Experience

Paddy

  • Third Collaborations Workshop.
  • The unlikely weather was welcome.
  • Belfast is a good place to run.
  • Enjoy a good mural.
  • Discussion session was a about good practices for AI-generated software.
  • Collaborative idea was about better education on how to perform a good code review.
  • Hack day https://github.com/green-actions . A tool to compute the action usage for a given repository.

Rainbow cake.

A mural of a woman and a dog.

A building being demolished.

Beacon of Hope sculpture.

The Salmon of Knowledge sculpture.

Sunflower pub.

Belfast City Hall at night.

A physics mural.

Bluebells.

Lit up umbrellas.

Interior décor of a pub.

A high stair sculpture.

A small bandstand.

Some of the UCL cohort.

My hack day team.

Jonathan

  • First time invited to speak at CW, and first experience of a fireside chat (minus fire)
  • Helped run 2 mini-workshops despite not being involved in submitting either proposal
  • Plugged DisCouRSE in an attempt to get NI engagement
    • Some useful chats, including with people who won round 1 projects
  • Distracted by ARC admin work and missed several sessions

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