Category: <span>Training</span>

AICatalyst2026: AI in the Biosciences Training Conference

Date and venue: 4 Sept 2026, The Guildhall, York This 1-day training conference is organised by the UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst, with funding support from AIBIO-UK. The programme brings together expert talks and hands-on workshops designed to introduce AI methods in bioscience research. The sessions will provide a working knowledge …

UKRI DRSC workshop: Introduction to Reproducible Data Analysis in R

Date and venue: 28–29 July 2026 | University of York This 2-day, hands-on workshop organised by the UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst covers the foundations of reproducible data analysis using R and RStudio. Through a combination of short presentations and live coding exercises, participants will explore essential scientific computing concepts, …

UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst Workshop on Introduction to Quarto

Date: 22 July 2026 10-12:00 UK, online This 2-hour workshop organised by the UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst will show how narrative text and code can be woven together to produce beautiful, production-ready outputs. The intended audience is researchers and research support staff in academia or industry, and others that regularly produce …

Royal Society Entrepreneur-in-residence scheme

Webinar: 30 June 2026, 10-12:00 UK Closing date: 19 August 2026 The Royal Society‘s Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) scheme, aims to increase knowledge and awareness in UK universities of cutting-edge industrial science, research and innovation. The scheme provides opportunities for enthusiastic, highly-experienced industrial scientists and entrepreneurs to spend one day …

UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst launched – get help and advice!

The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst is a new national training platform built on six years of collaborative work across seven UK universities. It brings together peer-reviewed training materials covering programming, statistics, machine learning, data stewardship, and more, alongside direct one-to-one support from research software engineers and data scientists. Learning …

Training and e-Learning for Spring-Summer 2026 – AquaEnviro, CIWM and CIWEM  

AquaEnviro‘s one-day online training events for May – September 2026 include the following courses: 9 June 2026 Optimising Effluent Treatment Plants: BAT for Food, Beverage & Paper Industries 30 June 2026 Optimising Anaerobic digesters: Sewage sludge 14 July 2026 Wastewater Treatment 16 July 2026 Optimising Activated Sludge plants 16 Sept …

Wastewater Treatment Works – are site visits getting easier?

EBNet has been commenting for some time now about the difficulty of arranging visits to water and wastewater treatment facilities, even for organised groups. Several factors may account for this, from pressure on staff time to concerns about health and safety and awareness of the sector’s poor public image. It’s …

The Last Plastic Fork – and more writing opportunities

The Green Stories Project has published winning stories from its flash fiction competition in an anthology The Last Plastic Fork and Other Green Epiphanies.  Copies of paper and ebook versions are available from Habitat Press. For more information on the Green Stories competition see here. Meanwhile Habitat Press author Laura …

New bioinformatics training opportunities  – and updated WG report

Don’t miss two outstanding new training opportunities: Introduction to Quarto, 22 April 2026, Online workshop, ÂŁ75/ÂŁ50  –  FLYER here Metatranscriptomics, 11-22 May 2026, Online workshop, Free  –  FLYER here These workshops are organised by the UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst (DRSC), an initiative to promote materials and activities by Cloud-SPAN …

Understanding IP in the Sustainable Biomaterials Sector – Webinar

Date: Tue 17 Feb 2026, 14-15:00 UK This webinar will provide a clear, accessible overview of intellectual property (IP), including key benefits, common pitfalls, and why IP awareness is valuable even at early research stages. The content is broad and relevant to anyone interested in sustainable bioproducts, innovation or research …

ELEMENTAL – Transcriptomics Analysis Pipeline workshop

Date: Tue 10 Feb 2026, 13-17:00 Location: Spark York, 17–21 Piccadilly, York, YO1 9PB  The ELEMENTAL Hub is running a hands-on introduction to RNA-sequencing data analysis, free to members and open to others at a cost of ÂŁ100. The session will provide a walk through the complete RNA-seq workflow, from …

Training and e-Learning modules for Spring 2026 – AquaEnviro, CIWM and CIWEM

The next AquaEnviro one-day online training events begin in March 2026 and include the following courses: 10 Mar 2026 Wastewater Treatment 17 Mar 2026 Optimising Activated Sludge plants 24 Mar 2026 Optimising Anaerobic digesters: Sewage sludge For more information follow the links above, or for the overall programme see here. …

Fundamentals of Metrology 2025 – Biofilms Alliance training course

Date: 18 Nov or 8 Dec 2025, online The Biofilm Alliance is funding a free training course on Fundamentals of Metrology. The course is intended for those involved in biofilm analysis and control who want a deeper understanding of how to ensure the quality, reliability, and comparability of measurement data. …