Collaborations Workshop 2026

ARC Forum

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