The Researcher In Residence Scheme at the University of Edinburgh invites academic and professional staff to engage in digital research facilitation. This scheme focuses on raising awareness of digital research resources, developing skills, and fostering a digital research community. Researchers in Residence lead projects centered around outreach activities, networking, and best practices in digital research. Individuals or teams willing to play a leading role in research facilitation activities are welcome to register their interest.
Registration of InterestInformation session
Join the information session to find out more about the Ambassadors Internship & the Researcher in Residence scheme.
- Date & time: 19th November, 14.30-16.00
- Venue: Nucleus Yew Lecture Theatre (Kings Buildings)
FAIR & Reproducible Research in BioInformatics
- Researcher In Residence: Dr Jing Su
- Activity: Seminar & Demonstration
This workshop is designed for research staff and PGRs who work with scientific data and is aimed at teaching how to make research outputs FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible), what this means in practice, why it applies across all scientific fields, and where research workflows commonly lose reproducibility. In the second part of the workshop, a bioinformatics demonstration will show these principles implemented in a real analysis. Using a published RNA-Seq dataset, the instructors will rebuild the workflow end-to-end on Eddie using GitLab, Nextflow and nf-core, recovering the paper’s main result with full, auditable provenance. The session will also highlight how researchers can use University core resources to support reproducible analysis, or work with BACSuite to put these approaches into practice in their own projects.
Schedule
- Date & time: 5th November, 10.00-12.30
- Venue: Kings Buildings, G.31 Murchinson House
- Date & time: 18th November, 10.00-12.30
- Venue: Roslin Institute, Ground Floor Seminar Room
- Date & time: 25th November, 10.00-12.30
- Venue: Usher Institute, Usher Inspire
- Date & time: 11th November, 10.00-12.30
- Venue: Institute of Genetics and Cancer, Lecture Theatre
Do Data Right
- Researcher In Residence: Dr Felicity Vidya Mehendale
- Activity: Talks, Roundtable discussion and Expo
- Date & time: 12th October 2026, 09:45-14:00
- Venue: Bayes Centre
Agentic coding workshops
- Researcher In Residence: Evan Morgan
- Activity: Hands-on workshop & mini-hackathon
- Dates: 25th June & 6th July 2026
The Agentic Coding Workshop was a one-day training event hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Research Services. It provided researchers, postgraduate students, and professional staff with a practical introduction to AI-assisted (agentic) coding, covering the setup of agentic coding tools, development workflows, and hands-on software creation. The workshop combined tutorial sessions with a mini-hackathon, where participants applied their skills to develop software projects individually or in teams. The event concluded with the Command Prompt AI-assisted coding meetup, where attendees presented their projects and received feedback.