BEAR Training

Advanced Research Computing provides a variety of workshops and short courses to help researchers at the University develop their IT skills and make the most of technology available to them for their research.

If you sign up to any of our training courses, you agree to abide by our Training Code of Conduct. This outlines the expectations and behaviour of both our trainers and participants. Please familiarise yourself with this before attending any courses. Note that we reserve the right to cancel courses if there is an insufficient number of bookings.

Please note that our courses are for research staff and research students only. Taught students - undergraduate and postgraduate - are not eligible to attend.


Becoming a Digital Researcher

Data Science skills

We provide links to some externally provided training and there are also Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that bring people together with common interests in research areas. If more information is required then please contact bearinfo@contacts.bham.ac.uk