Research Computing and Imaging

Lead Research Organisation: University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Computing

Abstract

Today, images are everywhere and are increasingly used in science. There are many examples of the importance of images over the history of science, a classic example being the motion sequence photographs of Eadweard Muybridge taken in 1878. These showed for the first time that for a brief moment when a horse gallops none of its feet are on the ground, thus capturing the truth through photography and paving the way for the development of the motion-picture industry ten years later.

Imaging science is the multidisciplinary pursuit concerned with generating, collecting, analysing, enhancing, and visualizing images. Despite the UK being strong in imaging and having many strategic centres of excellence supporting a variety of imaging methods it currently lacks integration with research computing, which is essential for processing and understanding the detail of these images. These facilities are traditionally based around one imaging method but this fellowship copies the SCI (Scientific Computing and Imaging) Institute in Utah which is an international centre of excellence where software is developed across the range of imaging methods and for the variety of disciplines that use images. This approach allows knowledge to be transferred and software re-purposed across a variety of imaging communities. In the long term, by major goal is to develop a centre of excellence at UoL similar to the SCI Institute.

There are two strands to the fellowship; the first is to develop software while the second is to upgrade computational skills and develop a computational community for imaging.

In this fellowship I will work with two of these national imaging facilities to develop software for a number of strategic case studies. Seven of these will based around new spectral imaging methods along with an initial training case in super-resolution light imaging. The new spectral imaging methods are novel because they include spectroscopy information for each pixel or voxel of the 2D or 3D image. The fundamental physical principles for extracting the exact structural chemical information in spectroscopic X-ray and electron micrograph (em) images are now well established, but there are no software packages that implement the whole of this computational workflow. This fellowship will develop easy-to-use software for 2D, 3D and 4D visualization of X-ray and em images, integrating software tools, re-purposing algorithms and designing new visualization techniques.

This fellowship will also upgrade computing skills in imaging at UoL. I will do this by working with a stakeholder group which includes four senior researchers. The PDRA and I will develop software for them, and those they collaborate with, and I will mentor one of their researchers who support others in their research groups. Knowledge from this mentoring will inform me about what training materials need to be developed on campus. I will also lead three computational networks at the UoL which will be advertised across the N8 (Northern 8 Universities). There will be one meeting a month across these networks which includes an annual one day conference for each of the networks.

While working on these two objectives I will continue to develop professionally and further develop my research into the role of the RSE. With help from the SSI I will disseminate this research and campaign for the RSE role both at UoL and nationwide.

Planned Impact

Imaging is increasingly used in science because it is a leading technology platform that enables discoveries in many disciplines. The UK has a number of internationally recognised centres of excellence which are strategically important to the UK economy and society, pushing back the frontiers of our scientific knowledge. This fellowship partners with 2 of these facilities: DLS which is a large synchrotron facility and SuperSTEM which is the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission EM, which has a range of academic and commercial partners aligned with EPSRC remit, including Computing, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Digital Technologies, Energy, Healthcare Technologies, and Manufacturing.

During this fellowship a series of software will be released, developed through strategic case studies that support the development of the new spectral imagining methods. While the fundamental physical principles for extracting exact structural chemical information in spectroscopic X-ray and em images are now well established, there are no existing software packages. This is typical of imaging which lacks the integration of imaging with research computing, so contributing to the lag in the adoption of new imaging methods and perpetuating a divide between experimentalists and computationalists, even though it is increasingly important to integrate the approaches.

The series of software I will release are relevant to particular industries in the UK and the design and development of new products as the case studies build on established collaborations with industry, specifically Infineum, AstraZeneca, Syngenta and Saudi-Aramco as well as with academics who also collaborate with industry. These are: 1,) the development of additives to fuels and lubricants; 2,) the formulation and manufacture of prescription pills; 3,) the design of artificial joints; 4,) improved understanding of CFD in the design of a variety of products such as nasal sprays, injections or relevant to the manufacturing of tablets, coatings or printing; 5,) the development of medical devices and tapes/seals; 6,) the development of optical coatings such as anti-reflective, self-cleaning, electrochromic, mirrors, filters and protective, aesthetic or decorative coatings; and 7,) chemical catalysis which is important to the Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical, Fine and Speciality Chemical Industries.

Software will be designed and released through DLS and SuperSTEM and integrated into their roadmaps. DLS has two relevant toolkits, (DAWN) which is designed for data as it comes straight from the beam line, and SAVU which is for the general processing of data. Software will be released into these so as to benefit from the large user communities of both academics and industrial partners that already exist. Training and tutorials will also be offered.

The stakeholder group with four senior academics in the field of imaging will benefit from software and my computational knowledge. This will feed into the Bragg Centre, the Astbury Centre and other imaging facilities on campus. I will also mentor one of their key researchers who will support other researchers. I will also contribute to the N8 centre of excellence so that any new HPC systems will be suitable for imaging.

Computational skills will be upgraded on campus through the computational networks I lead and that will be advertised across the N8. Through business development links at Leeds City Councils I will aim to find commercial speakers and network members. There will be twelve meetings each year across the three networks and these will include a one-day conference for each network.

The general public will benefit from visualizations and artists commission each year. These will be used broadly at science festivals eg, Leeds Science Festival, Astbury Conversations, Light Night Leeds, Otley Courthouse as well as at events at DLS and SuperSTEM.

Publications

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Description I worked with 4 research groups using novel forms of imaging. Creating good quality software for innovative imaging speeds up the development of these experimental techniques and helps the UK lead in research and develop new products quickly. All image data is similar but different microscopes produce images at different scales and look at different systems - I worked from atomic scale with material scientists working with nano-particles and natural ores to chemical process engineers creating new processes for growing crystals to biophysicists exploring molecular systems such as DNA replication and cell biologists researching heart contraction and cancer. My approach allowed me to understand both the similarities and dissimilarity of their data and research questions, necessary to develop software to help them with their research. Not only has this allowed me to create software to boost their research it has also allowed me to understand the practices of a Research Software Engineer (RSE) and how to combine software engineering and research methods to produce good quality early innovation research software.
Exploitation Route For this fellowship I partnered with 3 research groups of experimentalists.
Prof Sven Schroeder and his research group at the University of Leeds and at Diamond Light Source have a research focus on crystallisation. There are a number of opportunities and potential papers that we have not completed.
1,) I developed software with a PhD student for the analysis of XANES (X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy) which uses an under-utilised beamline at Diamond Light Source. I later supervised a Computing MSc student to turn this into a webservice. There is interest from Sven, his colleagues at CMAC (https://cmac.ac.uk/) and Diamond Light Source to progress this work.
2,) I supported the work of another PhD student who was analysing video footage created using X-Rays of continuous crystallization, a chemical process under research and useful for the more efficient and consistent production of crystals. The video had a noise to signal ratio that made it difficult to analyse. I evaluated and ran a parameter search of the Eulerian Video Motion Magnification (EVM) algorithm on the video footage before running an analysis. This revealed novel images of the start of the crystallisation process, so novel that it is taking some time to validate and publish. We also developed a GUI app called Crystal Growth Tracker for help a person to track and annotate the growth of crystals in video footage. This has been published and as the analysis of videos, particularly from experimental laboratories, is difficult to analyse and annotate we think this should aid other experimentalist and visualization software developers.
3,) I am supporting a follow-on PhD student. We are taking a different tack informed by the last project by using a different form of em radiation so that the crystals are easier extract from video footage, creating new equipment to allow crystallisation in a flowing solution and developing a new software product to test different ways to segment the video images. This is part funded and supervised by Astra Zeneca.
Prof Michelle Peckham supervises Alistair Curd and together they created the PERPL (pattern extraction from relative positions of localisations) software which analyses a new type of microscopy data called direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) or photoactivated light microscopy (PALM) and was funded by BBSRC (BB/S015787/1). They are working with ONI a UK based microscope manufacturer to help them bring this microscope to market. Alistair furthered this work with a fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (204825/Z/16/Z ). Recently Prof Philip Quirke, a senior medical researcher in gut cancer joined the team when we recruited a PhD student from the University of Leeds CDT in AI for Medical Diagnosis and Care to apply AI methods to microscopy images taken using new lab proceedures on a dSTORM microscope. dSTORM micrographs give new and complementary information to the other established imaging methods and once validated should provide faster and cheaper cancer testing. Philip Quirke has a special relationship with Rouche.
Prof Rik Drummond-Brydson works with Dr Nicole Hondow who work with 4D spectral images from SEM or TEM. The files produced were vendor specific (not documented) and in binary format making it impossible to get to the raw data. We worked together assessing visualization software for their materials research which included me co-supervising an MSc student with Nicole Hondow and analysing/visualizing a variety of materials. We both worked with the artist Lawrence Molloy and found their materials images particularly suited to artwork/artworks but the pandemic cut this work off as it was getting traction.
I also supported Sarah Harris who leads the FFEA (Flexible Finite Element Analysis) research team and 4 of the team's PhD students, I had worked with FFEA before my fellowship started. Their software was at the stat of my fellowship 10 years old and needed porting from Python version 2 to version 3, restructuring and a development/maintenance plan. FFEA analysis cryo-em data is turned into a mesh which is the basis of the simulation. This is a type of image-based modelling. Numerical instabilities are caused by small and/or slither elements in the mesh. Jonathan Pickering and I developed a visualization tool designed to explore bad meshes as well as a new meshing methodology that will potentially fix the numerical instability, increase the length of simulation time per time step and so produce more scientific outputs for less computational expense. This application is unique in biophysics and explores a scale space (between atomistic/quantum and molecular/Newtonian which cannot be accessed in any other way and as such explores physics between the Quantum and Newtonian paradigms. There is large potential for exploring this area of biophysics.
Sectors Agriculture

Food and Drink

Chemicals

Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Healthcare

Manufacturing

including Industrial Biotechology

Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology

Other

 
Description There is a wide diversity in what research software is and the people who develop and use it. This fellowship aimed to develop software for novel forms of imaging. The reasons why I picked this topic was so firstly, I could work closely with experimentalists (at the start of my career I was a lab technician for the Blood Transfusion Service and I have worked on several projects with experimentalists, in particular comparing experimental results with computational ones) and secondly, I could develop software for research areas where there was none or little pre-existing software and the research questions and ideas were evolving. This has allowed me to have an impact on the research of the scientists I have worked with: 1,) Developing new software for the analysis of new super-resolution light microscopy data with cell biologists. This is a new form of microscope so this research helps to validate this type of microscopy and supports ONI a UK microscope manufacturer to improve the development of this type of microscope and its future sales. The images produced by this type of microscope complement other established tests and data but is cheaper and quicker. This could improve efficiency of research into cell biology or a variety of medical diagnostic tests. We are testing this approach on the diagnosis of cancer of the gut which we hope will decrease the time and increase the accuracy of diagnosis. 2,) Developing new chemical processes and software for the control and monitoring of continuous growth of crystals with chemists. Crystals are used in many chemical products for example pharmaceuticals. We are doing research to create a continuous crystallization process which we expect would improve the efficiency and consistency of the production of crystals. We are working with Astra Zeneca to do this. There are fundamental elements of the chemistry and physics of crystallisation that are not understood. Our approach has created video footage that show the crystallisation in more detail than before and improves our understanding of crystallisation and keeps the UK in the lead of this area of research. A software system was also created to allow the analysis and annotation of video footage. This task is known to be difficult, understanding time evolving systems is also a known visualisation challenge so this approach will help scientists understand time changing video footage. 3,) XANES (X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy) beamline at Diamond Light Source is under-utilised because the analysis is difficult. We developed software that makes this easier and could be turned into a webservice. Improving the use of this beamline in a national research facility would mean more research could be done in the UK for little extra cost. 4,) FFEA (Flexible Finite Element Analysis) is the only software able to simulate large biological molecules or molecular systems. At this scale the Brownian motions of the molecules are simulated as thermal fluctuations making the simulation different to others and making it unstable and crash. In particular the surface refinements of the mesh are a major cause of this instability. A new meshing system that reduces surface refinement improves the FFEA software stability but it is an approach that may be useful to other simulations when they are increased in size and complexity which will happen when we simulate large environmental systems by increasing resolution and more physical systems like land and oceans. The impact on the work of the Research Software Engineer (RSE) is that for the first time I have published case studies on the practices of the RSE. In the last 10 years a large amount of effort has been put into improving their software engineering skills but by understanding their practices and research methods opens up the field, allowing better software, recognition, collaboration and creativity. This should improve the UKs performance in all areas of fundamental science. This fellowship has also provided educational materials to schools to help teenagers understand careers in STEM and in particular careers as an RSE.
First Year Of Impact 2019
Sector Chemicals,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Other
Impact Types Cultural

 
Description University of Leeds Doctoral College
Amount £76,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2021 
End 10/2025
 
Description University of Leeds Doctoral College
Amount £76,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2022 
End 10/2026
 
Description University of Leeds Doctoral College
Amount £76,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2020 
End 09/2022
 
Description University of Leeds Doctoral College
Amount £76,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Leeds 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2022 
End 02/2026
 
Description Astra Zeneca 
Organisation AstraZeneca
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Astra Zeneca are part funding a PhD studentship. Sven Schroeder is the principal supervisor, I am a co-supervisor as well as 2 representatives from Astra Zeneca.
Collaborator Contribution Part funding of the student and co-supervision.
Impact This is just starting so there are no outputs yet.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Diamond Light Source (https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home.html) is a named partner in my Fellowship 
Organisation Diamond Light Source
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Diamond Light Source are a named partner in my fellowship. I work with Sven Schroeder who is the Royal Academy of Engineering Bragg Centenary Chair in Engineering Applications of Synchrotron Radiation at the University of Leeds and works between Diamond and Leeds. I visited Diamond for 4 week long study trips during the year. While at Diamond I did software development sprints with a PhD student who was partly funded by Diamond to improve the adoption of XANES (X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy). It is thought that XANES is an under-utilised technique by industry because the analysis is difficult. We worked on automating a computational work flow for XANES.
Collaborator Contribution Alun Ashton a senior RSE at Diamond Light source has visited the University of Leeds for an initial start-up meeting held for researchers who are stakeholders in the software that will be developed during my fellowship. He gave a talk to the RSE Leeds network that I run during that visit. I have had meetings with Alun and members of his team during my trips to Diamond. He supported my application to become a Visiting Scientist to Diamond. This partnership was paused during lockdown and after lock down I was not able to return. I was visiting Diamond Light Source to work with researchers supervised by Sven Schroeder and after lockdown they stopped working on site in the same way. I still work with Sven Schroeder's students but I do that from home now.
Impact I as a computer expert worked in a cross-disciplinary collaboration with chemists to develop software. This software automates the computational work flow for the analysis of XANES.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Institute for Cancer Research (ICR) 
Organisation Institute for Cancer Research
Country Italy 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution In the first year of my fellowship, I worked with Alistair Curd and Michelle Peckham on the PERPL (pattern extraction from relative positions of localisations) software. This software analyses Super Resolution Light Microscopy (SRLM) data. This technique does not create traditional images but instead creates distributions or patterns in a database or list. It is potentially a disruptive technology, e.g., in medical assessment as it is cheaper and quicker than the current alternatives. However, software to analyse these molecular distributions is limited. Alistair now has a one-year fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (204825/Z/16/Z ) developing new analyses for SRLM data which includes extending the PERPL software. During his fellowship he has started to work with Kirti Prakash and Emre Kose at the ICR. Emre is developing a prototype of PERPL with a graphical user interface in Streamlit, which quickly generates ML/AI web-apps. I am advising on the design and refactoring of PERPL. Emre has now moved to a different job role and the collaboration no longer needs my skills.
Collaborator Contribution Alistair and Kirti used PERPL to assess the quality of a major new SRLM technique (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01694-x). They plan to use it to guide SRLM experimental protocols.
Impact We do not yet have the software ready to publish as the collaboration only started in December.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Institute for Cancer Research (ICR) 
Organisation Institute of Cancer Research UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution In the first year of my fellowship, I worked with Alistair Curd and Michelle Peckham on the PERPL (pattern extraction from relative positions of localisations) software. This software analyses Super Resolution Light Microscopy (SRLM) data. This technique does not create traditional images but instead creates distributions or patterns in a database or list. It is potentially a disruptive technology, e.g., in medical assessment as it is cheaper and quicker than the current alternatives. However, software to analyse these molecular distributions is limited. Alistair now has a one-year fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (204825/Z/16/Z ) developing new analyses for SRLM data which includes extending the PERPL software. During his fellowship he has started to work with Kirti Prakash and Emre Kose at the ICR. Emre is developing a prototype of PERPL with a graphical user interface in Streamlit, which quickly generates ML/AI web-apps. I am advising on the design and refactoring of PERPL. Emre has now moved to a different job role and the collaboration no longer needs my skills.
Collaborator Contribution Alistair and Kirti used PERPL to assess the quality of a major new SRLM technique (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01694-x). They plan to use it to guide SRLM experimental protocols.
Impact We do not yet have the software ready to publish as the collaboration only started in December.
Start Year 2023
 
Description SCI (Scientific Computing and Imaging) Institute, University of Utah 
Organisation University of Utah
Department Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The SCI Institute at the University of Utah is a research institute which has funding to translate that research into software that is used by the research community. I had a 3 week study trip to the SCI Institute in November 2018. I took with a variety of data from researchers at the University of Leeds who use imaging for their research activities and tested with various software developed at the SCI Institute. I spent time with the RSEs at SCI and they gave me help and advice on how to get the best from the software they develop for the data I had. I also disseminated issues around the development of the RSE role in the UK and research computing and learned about their related issues and concerns. Due to the pandemic and then ill health issues I was not able to travel and develop this partnership as I wanted to.
Collaborator Contribution The SCI Institute hosted me for 3 weeks, providing me with office space. I spoke to a number of experts in the field of visualization, HPC and imaging.
Impact This is a multidisciplinary collaboration. I can back with knowledge of software that I plan to apply to research problems at the University of Leeds over the coming year.
Start Year 2018
 
Title Crystal Growth Tracker 
Description This project extracts data on the growth rates of individual faces from x-ray video shadowgraphs of growing crystals. The software was designed and developed with Gunjan Das and Sven Shroeder while the algorithm and software in this project were developed by Jonathan Pickering and Joanna Leng at the University of Leeds. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2022 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact This software is used for ongoing research and will be used by Oliver Towns for his PhD which is part funded by Astra Zeneca. His principal supervisor is Sven Schroeder and Joanna Leng is one of his co-supervisors. 
 
Title CrystalGrowthTracker: A Python package to analyse crystal face advancement rates from time lapse synchrotron radiography 
Description Software developed for the extraction of crystal growth rates from 2D shadowgraphs of crystals precipitating onto a substrate, taken using X-rays of synchrotron radiation. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact This a zip file of a stable release of the software. A github version is also available and is also described in this section. 
URL https://zenodo.org/record/7233986
 
Title PERPL (Pattern Extraction from Relative Positions of Localisations) 
Description This software provides functions for finding relative positions between points in 3D space and plotting as distance histograms for single molecule localisation data e.g. direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) or photoactivated light microscopy (PALM). 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact We have released so that researchers can use and develop it as they choose to. We expect that it will be useful to users of the dSTORM and PALM techniques. Co-creators of this software Alistair Curd, Michelle Peckham and Joanna Leng have given talks at various meetings (in Joanna Leng's case as a seminar at Warwick and at an iBIN meeting). 
 
Title XAS_analysis (X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy) 
Description This software is the start of automating the computational pipeline or workflow for XAS Analysis. There are python 4 scripts for each state of matter ie, gas, liquid and solid, however the experimental spectra peak fitting (E2) and the comparison (C1) are the same for all these states. The software was created by Laila Al-Madhagi for her PhD project on the 2018/05/17. Joanna Leng contributed to the design and development. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact This was part of Laila Al-Madhagi PhD. 
 
Title pyqt5 samples 
Description This provides 3 pyqt5 samples that demonstrate 2 advanced topics in pyqt5 application development. These are: 1,) Region selection of a part of an image and shares the results in a table following the MVC (model-View-Controller) paradigm https://github.com/jonathanHuwP/RegionSelection 2,) Displays web (html) files and prints them within a pyqt5 application https://github.com/jonathanHuwP/QWebEngineDemo 3,) Displays the results of an election stored in an array in a table so that the values in the table can be edited and the array updated, using the MVC (model-View-Controller) paradigm - https://github.com/jonathanHuwP/PyQtDemoElection 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact The pyqt5 library is becoming increasingly popular for applications with a python3 GUI and is starting to replace the TkInter library. Over the past few years Python3 has been released and has changed its project structure a couple of times. These samples are released as 3 github projects with modern Python3 project structures that demonstrate advanced topics in pyqt5 applications. There is currently a lack of samples of pyqt5 techniques available and so slows down and inhibits the development of good GUI for research software. This was a problem we had while developing software for another project so we decided to release these samples to help others develop python applications that use the pyqt5 library. 
 
Description A series of short articles on RSEs their practices, professional development and environment 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The pandemic and lockdown changed the way we build communities, it has moved online and has become dominated by the larger national organisations. I think the RSE community needs external communities to understand it so I have been writing a series of short articles and publishing them with Open Access Government so that they have a DOI and are also included in my publication list. This publication is generally read by policy makers but I understand a number of RSEs are also reading these articles. So far, I have published 4 articles. There were 2 case studies that explore the interaction of research methods and software engineering practices; these are titled "DISCUSSING EARLY INNOVATION SOFTWARE BY EXAMPLE OF THE PERPL SOFTWARE" and "FFEA SOFTWARE: REPEATED EARLY INNOVATION". There was an article on how the RSE profession is developing and the need for the leaders of this development to be more inclusive of RSE roles which is titled "THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION". The 4th published articles is on the computing paradigm shift in research and the development of research software provision and is titled "COMPUTING: PARADIGM SHIFTS, ADOPTION, NEW DIGITAL PROFESSIONS RISING". A fourth article is about to be published which is titled "DO RSE HAVE RESEARCH METHODS?". A web posting is also about to be published titled "THE FULL DIVERSITY OF THE RSE ROLE AND THE ACCIDENTAL RSE". After that there will be a further post. doing this has also allowed me to work with sociologist who are experts in paradigm shifts and are Wes Sharrock an emerita Professor from the University of Manchester and Phil Brooker a Sociologist from the University of Liverpool.

The figures I have for impact come from December 2023.

Total reach was 939,680 and total engagement was 602,216.

Impact for the article DISCUSSING EARLY INNOVATION SOFTWARE BY EXAMPLE OF THE PERPL SOFTWARE: total edition reach was 248,115 and edition engagement was 223,302, email opens was 13,130, edition engagement was 210,172 and pageviews was 1554, google search for "innovation software" was #36

Impact for the article THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION: total edition reach was 247,219 and edition engagement was 278,796, email opens was 20,680, edition engagement was 256,116 and pageviews was 1567, google search for "oag software" was #21 and for "innereginearing" was #42.

Impact for the article FFEA SOFTWARE: REPEATED EARLY INNOVATION: total edition reach was 200,451 and edition engagement was 109,539, email opens was 24,251, edition engagement was 85,288 and pageviews was 1560, google search for "FFEA software" was #1.

Impact for my author banner: reach 243,895, engagement 520.

Impact for my stakeholder page: engagement 59.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description ARCHER Champions: Edinburgh 9th May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was one in a series of ARCHER Champions workshops that are held regularly in the UK. The purpose of these meetings is to catch up on HPC news and practices in the UK and exchange ideas. I was the last speaker of the day and spoke on the importance of being curious and creative in our work and research. This took examples from The Superposition book that I had been co-editing. The Superposition is a collective of Artists, Scientists and Makers that is based in Leeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.archer.ac.uk/community/champions/workshops/edin_may2019/
 
Description Athena Hack, an all-women hackathon, supporting Plastic Oceans UK to help solve one of the biggest environmental issues of the time. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The hackathon was held at Queen Mary University on Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th April 2019. It was organized by ShowCode as an initiative to champion female technologists and focus their skills to help solve one of the biggest environmental issues of the time. Prizes were awarded for the best performing university team and the best performing company team with a top prize of £5000 cash. The challenge was to use their skills to create an idea that would help solve the plastic crisis that is currently plaguing the world in support of Plastic Oceans UK. I acted as a judge and mentor, talking to and encouraging the teams. The women who joined the hack showed great amounts of creativity and passion in their ideas on how to fix this difficult problem. They came from across the country and from many backgrounds. The energy and enjoyment were obvious.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://athena.devpost.com/
 
Description Brochure on STEM career for 14- to 16-year-old teenagers published May 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact I worked with Futurum and partners to my fellowship (Michelle Peckham, Alistair Curd, Sarah Harris, Nicole Hondow, Diamond Light Source (Sven Schroder and Mark Basham) to write a brochure which consisted of an article and activity sheet for 14- to 16-years-old teenagers designed to help them make better STEM career choices. The title of the article is IMAGING THE INVISIBLE: HOW CAN RESEARCH SOFTWARE AND IMAGING TECHNIQUES HELP SCIENTISTS STUDY THE THINGS WE CAN'T SEE? and the title of the activity sheet is RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. The brochure has been shared on line through Futurum's website and is also shared through TES (Time Educational Supplement) here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12758885 as well as https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12758905 and Teachers pay Teachers here https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Imaging-the-invisible-research-software-engineering-8728035 (there also links to the activity sheet). It has been shared on Twitter, Facebook, Every Social Media with the "in" logo and Pinterest.

In October 2022, 6 months after release I got a report detailing the engagement.

Engagement for the publication of the brochure: Twitter 41,024 impressions, 237 engagements, 3 likes and 3 retweets; Facebook 7286 people reached, 1004 engagements, 911 likes and 45 clicks; "in" 1543 impressions, 2.5% engagement rate, 40 likes, 10 shares; Pinterest 4,095 impressions, 67 clicks; Futurum website 109 PDF downloads.

Engagement for the Futurum webpage: 292 page views, 15 article downloads, 13 activity sheet downloads - social media engagement - Twitter 26, 907 impressions, 127 engagements, 14 likes; Facebook 3,811 people reached 344 post engagements, 295 likes, 45 clicks; "in" 314 impressions, 2.38% engagement rate, 3 likes, 5 clicks; Pinterest 2,183 impressions, 57 pin clicks.

Engagement with other places it was featured: TES 6 views, 3 downloads; Teachers Pay Teachers 12 downloads.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12758885
 
Description Co-organised a day workshop on Visualization for HPC-SIG at the University of Birmingham on the 22nd of May 2018 and gave the talk "Remote Visualization an Overview" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Academic HPC services do not tend to have interactive sessions as jobs are scheduled and so can run at any time. This results in a relatively poor understanding and use of visualization by academic HPC service providers and the academic HPC user community. This meeting was aimed at academic HPC service providers who wished to understand more about how to improve the use of visualization on their HPC services.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Co-organised the RSE 2018 workshop "Implicit None" C. Jones, J. Leng, K. Pringle and T. Allard 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Developed and gave a workshop at the RSE18 conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Contributed proof reading to the IEEE SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The IEEE is a USA based professional body for computing professionals. It has been developing the SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge) to my knowledge for over 20 years. It is a resource I sometimes use and I am interested in the ideology of those that develop it. I am aware that there are differences in ideology between those professionals working in research computing applications and other software engineering application areas. The latest version of this is currently being developed and I registered my interest in helping with that. In Februaty 2024 I was asked to proof read and check content. I proof read the chapter on Computer Science Foundations and offered some changes to the content to parts that focused on HPC (High Performance Computing) where it was out of date, lacking accurate detail or not clear. The SWEBOK is high impact but this version is not yet released so it is difficult to judge what impact it will have.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.computer.org/education/bodies-of-knowledge/software-engineering
 
Description Created and delivered a course on GlueViz to the N8 CIR, a video recording is part of the N8 CIR online training materials 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Jonathan Pickering created the course on GlueViz. GlueViz is an open source information visualization system implemented in Python. Information visualization focuses on visualizing data stored in spreadsheets or databases while scientific visualization focuses on visualizing data that represents 2D or 3D space. This ran just after a course on ParaView which is a scientific visualization system. It started by explaining the common information visualization techniques that are possible in GlueVis and then went on to explain how it can be extended with Python programming. This course was created during the start of the first lockdown and was created for in-person delivery. It took some time to find a way to deliver the course. In 2022 this was delivered online to the N8 CIR and they video recorded it and keep a copy in their collection of courses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://n8cir.org.uk/events/event-resource/glueviz/
 
Description Delivered the training course "Visualization Basics with ParaView" at the University of Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Delivered this in person training that I had previously developed at the University of Leeds twice in the year. The end of the workshop allows the students to present their problems so they can get expert help and advice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Delivered the training course "Visualization Basics with ParaView" at the University of Leeds on 25th April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Delivered this training that I had previously developed at the University of Leeds twice in the year. The end of the workshop allows the students to present their problems so they can get expert help and advice. Over the time I have presented this course at Leeds the skills of the students have increased and more complex materials that allow that teach the students how to program in Python with ParaView seems to be the next step for this course.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Delivered the training course "Visualization Basics with ParaView" to the FFEA research group 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Delivered this training course online with new additions on ParaView and Python. The FFEA (Fluctuating Finite Elements Analysis) research group are currently experience problems with visualization so this course was delivered to them so they could gain a better general understanding of visualization and scientific visualization. The Python extension to this course was developed during the first lockdown and I had not had the opportunity to deliver the new extension since the start of lockdown so this allowed me top test those new materials.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Developed and delivered a new training course, "Introduction to Fiji" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Developed training materials for Fiji (which is a version of ImageJ that comes with a selection of plugins suited to biological images) and delivered them once as a pilot course. The end of the course allows students to present their problems so that they can get expert help.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description EPCC's Women in HPC Chapter Launch 8th May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a celebration of the newly formed WHPC Chapter at EPCC. It was attended by researcher and HPC professionals from across the country. I spoke about my career and the role of the WHPC network in helping me to stay in research computing and become a ESPRC funded RSE Fellow.

In the coffee break I had some heated conversation about how and if the RSE community should copy the WHPC model that has inspired me.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/courses/2019/05/190508-WHPC/index.php
 
Description Extended and delivered the course "Visualization Basics with Paraview" to N8 CIR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I extended the ParaView course to include programming ParaView with Python. The presentation was expanded to better include issues on to do with the visualization pipeline, colour and data structures. The exercises were extended to the use of Python with ParaView for editing macro or state file, using the internal Python shell, using the external python shell editing state files, programming through and in batch mode. This did not include the development of ParaView plugins.

The course was delivered through Zoom and the N8 CIR recorded the presentation. The presentation and exercises are available through the N8 CIR website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://n8cir.org.uk/events/event-resource/paraview/
 
Description Flash talk on Exploratory visualization tools for dSTORM at the iBIN meeting in Leeds 18th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Integrated Biological Imaging Network (https://ibin.org.uk/about-us/) aims to bring together expertise from across the UK to advance the field of biological imaging. This was a one day meeting with talks in the morning including flash talks so that the network could get to know each other more quickly. In the afternoon there were group discussions to look at current issues and novel areas and develop networks and collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Flash talk, "Joanna Leng: What Environment Does an RSE Need?" at the Collaborations Workshop in Cardiff on 26th March 2018. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The environments that RSE work in are little understood but can affect the quality and efficiency of their work. I used this flash presentation to run a survey of those present to try better to understand the state of practice in the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Gave a talk, "The HPC services at the University of Leeds" at the University of Nottingham HPC User Conference on the 17th of April 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The Nottingham HPC User Conference coincided with the start of a new HPC service there. The talk covered service delivery, skills development and RSE roles.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Organised a meeting and discussion on "The Benefits of having an RSE team" with the speakers Alun Ashton and Mike Croucher 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was the first of a series of meetings to help develop awareness of the RSE role and to build the RSE community at the University of Leeds. There were 38 people who registered and positive feedback was gained from 9.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Organised a talk by Gillian Arnold on "What an Amazing Place Technology is for Women" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a meeting for women in the RSE, HPC or IT community at the University of Leeds. There were 38 people who registered and positive feedback was gained from 7.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Organised an RSE meeting "RSE Careers and Roles: Louise Brown" for 29th January, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact At previous events it had become clear that there is confusion over what the RSE careers and roles look like. This talk gave a practical description from an established RSE, Louise Brown who is an EPSRC funded RSE fellow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Orgnised a day-long workshop with hands on tutorials and discussion on, "AI and Machine Learning Workshop" on the 19th December 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This was a day-long training and networking event that was primarily aimed at developing technical skills for RSEs at the University of Leeds. RSEs tend not to have funding for personal or technical development oe travel and AI is currently important technique for an RSE to understand. The event was also open to academics and professional/support staff on campus interested in applying AI to their research or the research groups that they support. The event was divided into 3 parts. In the morning there were talks that were introductory and inspiring given by David Hogg, Alicija Piotokowicz and Alistair Droop. In the afternoon there were 2 parallel sessions for hands on tutorials by Jonny Hancox (NVIDIA), Jony Castagna (STFC Daresbury and NVIDIA Ambassador) and Martin Callaghan. Finally, I hosted a discussion and there was a networking at the end of the day. Registration was for the each of the 3 events and 150 registered with positive feedback from 24.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Panel at the RSE-HPC 2020: Research Software Engineers in HPC - Creating Community, Building Careers, Addressing Challenges 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This was an event aimed at building the RSE community internationally. To do this is was run as a workshop at the SuperComputing conference, SC20. The SuperComputing conference has many people attending who work in different areas of research computing including RSE and other related areas in academia, research facilities and industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/agenda/
 
Description Panel on Early Career for researcher interested in getting funding at SC19 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The Early Career Programme at the Supercomputing series of conferences aims to provide a number of activities over 2 to 3 days of the conference that encourage and help people early in their HPC careers to find their way. As a part of this I was on a panel on applying for funding. I gave a short talk, then along with other panel members I answered questions from the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://sc19.supercomputing.org/program/early-career/
 
Description Programing Robots for The Engineering Experience: International Women in Engineering Day 2020 Programme on MARCH 6th 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Throughout the day this activity was ran 3 times for 3 sets of School Children aged from 12 to 14. For each set the children split into teams of 2 to 3. Each team had a lego robot that could move forwards, backwards and had an infra-red sensor to see if there was an obstruction. The teams also had a tablet that they had to use to program the robot using a visual programming interface. Once the program was complete, they could upload it to the robot and start and stop the program as they wished.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description RCI Training (Introduction to Fiji (ImgeJ)) put online 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Because of the pandemic I was not able to run my ImageJ course face to face. Instead, I converted it into an online version that uses gitbooks for the written content and videos with subtitles/descriptions for accessibility on youtube.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://j-leng.gitbook.io/rci-training/fiji-imgej
 
Description RSE Talk 24th June 2019 by Chris Johnson "ARCHER and the eCSE (embedded Computational Science and Engineering) programme 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a talk on the eCSE scheme that has been run by ARCHER. It was useful to people who are thinking about becoming RSEs or developing careers in this area. Several people stayed after the event to chat and understand more about the role of the RSE.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description RSE career talk at LivDat (Liverpool Big Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Talk given to PhD students and post-doctoral researchers at LivDat which is the Liverpool Big Data Science Centre for Doctoral Training. I was approached to give this talk by a post-doctoral researcher who was interested in knowing more about the RSE job role as he was thinking about changing career to this. I developed the talk titled "How computers have changed science and predictions on how that will continue" which went through my career/work as an RSE and related that to how technology has changed more generally. I had some questions at the end and explained how most RSEs progress from being post-doctorial researcher into RSEs and that there is no educational or training that is designed to produce RSEs
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://indico.ph.liv.ac.uk/event/589/page/26-how-computers-have-changed-science-and-predictions-on-...
 
Description RSE talk 12th Nov 2019 by Jeremy Cohen on "Investigating the Economics of Research Software Engineering: Costs, benefits and tradeoffs" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The aim of the talk was to open up the discussion on the different management structures for RSEs and the economic impact of this. This is an issue that crosses disciplines and goes from academic to professional staff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description RSE talk 26th June at 12pm Fouzhan Hosseini on "How to understand and improve the performance of your parallel applications using the POP Methodology'" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was on HPC (High Performance Computing) which is an area that underrepresents women. This talk was given by a woman, Fouzhan Hosseini, and advertised across the N8 (the Northen 8 universities) to promote the visibility of women in this area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description RSE talk 31st Jan at 12pm Mariann Hardey on " There is a problem with the label 'women in tech'" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was on equality and diversity in the Tech. There were requests for a couple of women working outside academia to travel regionally to attend the talk. Even if they did not make to the event the advertising made an impression. There were long discussions with the speaker after the event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Seminar on Interactive Visualization for the Design, Prototyping and Development of Research Software on 17th June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave this seminar to computational and imaging researchers at the University of Warwick. There was a long and lively debate on RSEs at the end of the seminar. Four of us took the debate to a coffee shop for a further 60mins or so.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Spoke on "Research Computing and Imaging" at the EPSRC workshop for RSE fellows on the 24th of September 2108. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact EPSRC meeting to look at the future of the RSE fellowship scheme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Spoke on "Research Computing and Imaging" at the Imaging Physics Lunchtime Seminar, University of Leeds on the 6th of February, 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The role of the RSE is little understood or recognised. This talk was aimed at the medical imaging research community who currently need more good quality research software. This talk made them aware of this emerging role and how it differs from the standard academic role.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Spoke on "Research Computing and Imaging" to the ARCHER Champions in Manchester on the 25th of April, 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ARCHER is the national flagship academic HPC (high performance computer) service. The Archer Champions exists to allow information and knowledge to transfer down the tiers from national, to regional and so to local HPC services. Attendees tend to be people involved in delivering HPC services, large scale users of HPC services and representatives from the research councils that fund Archer i.e., EPSRC and NERC. At this meeting I disseminated information on my fellowship and RSEs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Spoke on the role of the RSE and led discussions at the training course "SWD 3: Software development practices for" on the 7th February 2018 at the University of Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The role of the RSE is little recognised and the practices of the RSE differ subtly from those of commercial software developers. This talk introduced the roles and practices of an RSE to the audience. The discussions raised topics and issues on the practices of the RSE and how those may differ to commercial practices for example research software tends to be managed at a project level rather than at a research programme level and this can affect how they use version control systems. These discussions were used by the course provider to improve their training materials.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Talk on "How Computers Have Changed Science and Predictions on How That Will Continue" to BCS, Cheltenham and Gloucester Branch 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This was a talk delivered via Zoom to the BCS (British Computer Society), Cheltenham and Gloucester Branch in April 2023. The attendees were mainly A Level/undergraduate students and some established computer professionals. This talk was aimed at showing how the computing technology has evolved over my career and what science this has enabled along with some predictions for the future of computing. The talk was well received.
About 6 months later I gave an interview to an employee of the BCS who writes their newsletters. He had found a link to my talk and was interested in it as it was the only talk he could find that talked about future computing trends and he was planning an article on this area for a future newsletter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2023/april/webinar-how-computers-have-changed-science-prediction...
 
Description Turing Institute Special Interest Group on Humanities and Data Science on "Is CSCW a good way to develop our understanding of research software development as a research practice?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was asked to give a talk at the Turing Institute Special Interest Group on Social Sciences which was held at the University of Leeds in May 2023. I picked the topic of "Is CSCW a good way to develop our understanding of research software development as a research practice?". CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) is a sociological methodology which is accepted within that field to be particularly for small research groups who know each other. I used this oportunity to ask the audience questions and further my understanding. I also linked with a sociologist and software developer Phil Brooker, who is currently at the University of Liverpool, and worked with him on this topic. We have been looking further into this topic and hope to write a journal paper on a similar topic soon.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/humanities-and-data-science
 
Description Working with the RDA on COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed to the development of the RDA (Research Data Alliance) COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/rda-covid19-rda-covid19-omics-rda-covid19-epidemiology-rda-covid19...
 
Description Working with the RDA on FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed to the development of the RDA (Research Data Alliance) on FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-research-software-fair4rs-wg