What is a CoDesign day?
Training is more effective when the people who will be benefiting from it are included in the design, both the content and the delivery. These sessions were the first events the hub held and they were designed to find out what the community wanted and how they wanted to participate.
In July 2025 we held 3 codesign days, we had a mixture of short talks and facilitated discussions. The first 2 events had a similar agenda and discussions topics. The third event took the outputs from the previous 2 events and encouraged more focussed discussion on topics that had arisen. Below are the slides and outputs from these events. Codesign is an iterative procedure and the plan is to continue these events as the hub training program develops.
3rd July 2025 - Sheffield
- 10:00 Welcome & ACIT-Hub intro
- 10:15 Learning Journeys
- Developing FAIR 4 Research Software Training Tamora James (University of Sheffield)
- A Journey to HPC in DevOps & Config Management Dean Roe (University of Surrey)
- Establishing the HPC Hardware Lab Alastair Basden (University of Durham)
- 11:00 Discussions: Training Content
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 ACIT Hub Training and CPD
- 13:45 Learning Journeys
- Building Career Pathways for RSEs Romain Thomas (University of Sheffield)
- 14:00 Discussions: Training methods and CPD
- 15:45 Closing thoughts
- 16:00 Close
- Outputs - Post-it Note transcripts
9th July 2025 - Bristol
- 10:00 Welcome & ACIT-Hub intro
- 10:15 Learning Journeys
- Provision Experience of JADE 2.5 Greg Tourte (University of Oxford)
- What Isambard has Learned from the Cloud Matt Williams (University of Bristol)
- Our Datacentre Journey Dugan Witherick (Imperial College London)
- 11:00 Discussions: Training Content
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 ACIT Hub Training and CPD
- 13:45 Learning Journeys
- Becoming Agile in Research Computing Jaydeep Mody (University of Surrey)
- There and Back Again: Reflections on an RTP Management Journey Clare Gryce (University of Sussex)
- 14:15 Discussions: Training methods & CPD
- 15:45 Closing thoughts
- 16:00 Close
- Outputs - Post-it Note transcripts
22nd July 2025 - London
- 10:00 Welcome & ACIT-Hub intro
- 10:15 Learning Journeys
- Building Sustainable HPC Infrastructure Andrew Richards (Imperial College London)
- Upgrading the ARC Storage Infrastructure Gregory Tourte (Univesity of Oxford) - slides incoming
- Building and supporting dRTP Training Networks Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London)
- Developing a training grid for dRTPs Mike Bearpark (Imperial College London) - this talk had no slides
- 11:10 Discussions: Training Content
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Discussions: Training Content (cont)
- 14:00 ACIT Hub Training and CPD
- 14:10 Discussions: Training methods & CPD
- 15:45 Closing thoughts
- 16:00 Close
- Outputs - Training Topics discussions
- Outputs - Training and CPD