About REG

The Research Engineering Group is a community of practice at the University of Bristol. It includes interdisciplinary data scientists, research software engineers, research infrastructure engineers, data engineers and friends.

What we do

Our main ways of communicating are by:

• Slack channel, #bristol-reg, on the UK RSE Slack instance. We encourage use of the Slack for peer-to-peer support (and photos of pets!) The UK RSE slack also brings together the UK-wide RSE and friends community. If you’re new, then there are lots of helpful channels on this Slack instance and it’s a very active community.
• Group meetings, hybrid in Royal Fort House on the last Tuesday of every month, usually 3-4pm.
• Mailing list, which also has a group calendar for our meetings.

Other things we do

• Reading group - every month we review and discuss an article voted on by the group. These sessions are usually hybrid.
• Research computing training for data science and RSE. Self-led courses on GitHub plus we run in-person and online courses during the year. Volunteer helpers welcome!

Also of interest

• Data Ethics Club online journal club about doing data science ethically, every two weeks.
• Alan Turing Institute liaison academics linking the University of Bristol to the wider Turing network and interest groups, for example.
• Today I Learned (TIL) GitHub repo – for making interesting things we talk about on Slack more permanent, with minimal fuss. See the ‘contributing TILs’ for instructions.
• Data Science Handbook GitHub website – in development and contributions welcome!