2026 Annual Conference - 20th April, Nottingham
RSE Midlands 2026 will take place on 20th April 2026 at Advanced Manufacturing Building, University of Nottingham, NG7 2GX.
Tickets
Tickets out now you can get your tickets here
Call for talks
If you would like to give a talk please can you email Kwabena Amponsah kwabena.amponsah1@nottingham.ac.uk with the details of your request.
30 - 15 minute talks
There are two, 30-minute or four 15-minute slots available to give a talk. If you have a project you have worked on, a useful tool that you wish to share or even a talk about being an RSE from your institution, then please get in contact with us.
Lightning talks
We have slots for shorter 5 to 10-minute lightning talks. This is an opportunity for those in the RSE Midlands space to give a talk that can either be on their work or community projects that they are involved with: This can be to inform or seek assistance.
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 | Session 1 - Academic |
| Open-source, but paying the bills: PsychoPy’s story - Jonathan Peirce (University of Nottingham) | |
| Grazziela Figueredo (University of Nottingham) | |
| 11:00 | Refreshments |
| 11:30 | Session 2 - EDI & Lightning talks |
| EDI - Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London), Ella Kaye (University of Birmingham) | |
| Lightning talks | |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Session 3 - Practical |
| VisP2: The Data Visualization process for software development - Robert Laramee (University of Nottingham) | |
| An introduction to Apptainer: Portable and Reproducible Workflows on HPC - Bradley Davy (OCF sponsored talk) | |
| The reluctant developer’s guide to the software development universe - Mike Croucher (Mathworks) | |
| 15:30 | Refreshments |
| 16:00 | Session 4 - RSESoc & Panel |
| RSE Society Sponsored talk - James Tyrrell (University of Birmingham) | |
| Panel Session: Raising the visibility of RSE groups within Universities (details below) | |
| 16:55 | Closing Remarks |
Panel Session
Panel Coordinator: Louise Brown
Panel Chair: Armando Mendez
Panel Members:
- Adrian Garcia, University of Birmingham
- Andrew Hadfield, University of Nottingham
- Mike Croucher, Mathworks