Events

📅 Upcoming events

Early career events: Environmental sustainability and the future of digital in research (March and April)

We are hosting two workshops, aimed at early career researchers, which provide an opportunity to learn about environmental sustainability and the future of digital research.

We want to engage future researchers, who will be most impacted by climate change, with our net zero digital research infrastructure roadmap to ensure your voices are included and listened to.

Further information and to register.

Creative Workshops – offline option (complete before end of February)

We have commissioned artist Paul Millhouse-Smith to deliver a large-scale art-work in response to the core ambitions - and challenges - associated with the net zero agenda. The final piece will inspire collective action and stimulate conversations surrounding the transition to net zero digital research infrastructure (DRI).

As part of this commission, Paul facilitated four creative workshops and an offline creative worksheet to gather information that will inspire his final artwork and facilitate discussion. Decarbonising the digital research infrastructure will require a reassessment of existing habits, values and methodologies across the research community.

This work is open to a wide range of people across UKRI who have an interest in digital research infrastructure and net zero. We want to bring different perspectives together and provide a space for people to be creative, and explore what they hold important in the context of a rapidly changing world. It offers an opportunity to engage critically and creatively with the environmental sustainability discussion.

Your participation via the worksheet and what you submit to us will be incredibly valuable, and will help inspire Paul for his final artwork.

Complete the offline creative worksheet, ideally by 5pm on Friday 24 February 2023. You may want to complete all of it in order (taking ~60 minutes) or you could pick and choose which exercises to complete.

📅 Past events

Project Partner Webinars – January/February 2023

We are holding two webinars to share the outcomes of work undertaken by our project partners. These pieces of work have been undertaken by over 40 researchers from 20 different institutions over the last ~6 months. Both webinars are intended to provide an opportunity for the wider research community to engage with and discuss the project outcomes.

Further details, including recordings and slides, click here.

Creative Workshops – January/February 2023

As part of this commission, Paul is facilitating four creative workshops in January and February to gather information that will inspire his final artwork and facilitate discussion. Decarbonising the digital research infrastructure will require a reassessment of existing habits, values and methodologies across the research community. These workshops are therefore open to anyone working with DRI, including researchers within any and all disciplines and career stages.

The workshops offer an opportunity to engage critically and creatively with the environmental sustainability discussion.

The online creative workshops will be held on the following dates, you only need to attend one:

Friday 27 January 1-4pm
Monday 30 January 1-4pm
Friday 3 February 10am-1pm
Tuesday 7 February 10am-1pm
There is also an option to participate offline

Progress webinar - Friday 9th September at 11:30am (GMT)

We are hosting a webinar to share and discuss the findings of our first interim report.

Our interim report has been published. The document shares recommendations from an extensive literature review and will form the basis of our Final Report, due to be released next summer.

This webinar will cover the following:

The key recommendations from the interim report
Discussion about the findings
Information about future events and activities

Please register to attend the event.

Go Zero Workshop Series - October/November 2022

One of our project partners, the Go Zero team, are hosting a series of three workshops in Autumn 2022 aimed at:

People who use digital research infrastructure, at any stage in their research / research-related career
People who manage, maintain and operate digital research infrastructure
People who fund digital research infrastructure

The online workshops are designed to:

connect and enthuse the UK research community in order to meet the net zero challenge facing digital research infrastructure
empower stakeholders to take ownership of the path to net zero

Join us and benefit from a chance to shape the future of UKRI’s net zero work, give your views, receive up to £190 in incentives, and network with others!

Find out more and how to apply here.

Computing Insight UK (CIUK) conference in Manchester, December 2022.

Information to follow.

Open meetings - 17th December 2021 & 10th January 2022

These meetings were open to anyone who wants to learn more about the project and what options are available for getting involved or being allocated funding. There are two dates to maximise options for attendance. Further details here.

Sandpit events - two events held in May 2022

Two sandpit events were used to bring together new ideas and to allocate the funding for involvement of the community in proof-of-concept projects and workshops. Further details here.

Progress webinars

We host regular project update webinars - recordings of past events are below.

January 2022
Overview and aims of project. (Slides here)

March 2022
Progress update & how can you get involved with the project? (Slides here)

April 2022
Interim findings based on literature survey, Consortium building & announcement of sandpit event opportunity. (Slides here)

The project team share the projects recent updates and take questions from the audience in the webinars.

Joining instructions were sent via the mailing list.

July 2022

Overview of the Project Scope, Ambitions and Progress to celebrate Net Zero Week in the UKRI Wednesday Webinar. (Slides here)