Collaborations Workshop 2012

The Collaborations Workshop gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you’re a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators.

Why you should attend

There are many reasons to attend the Collaborations Workshop:

1. Meet with researchers and software developers

A fresh perspective is often all that is needed to solve problems or come up with new ideas. Yet it can be difficult to meet researchers from different backgrounds to your own. The CW12 brings together researchers from a highly varied range of disciplines, and it is this variety that makes the workshop so productive. This year will be no exception: we are joined by our Agents - from backgrounds as diverse as materials chemistry to sports science and clinical physics to glaciology - and we will also be joined by some of the Community Champions from the SeIUCCR project.

2. Delegates have control

The delegates set the workshop’s agenda. Anyone who attends can suggest topics for discussion either before or during the workshop. At the workshop, everyone votes on the topics that they would like to discuss and the favourites make the agenda. The topics are discussed in small groups during breakout sessions, and the results from these sessions are communicated to everyone during reporting back sessions.  This year's break out topics will be listed on the break out topics page.

3. Everything is flexible

Everything about the workshop is flexible. Delegates are encouraged to change the agenda to meet their needs. New topics for discussion are added, and exhausted topics are removed. If someone wants time to present new results, time will be found. If more time is needed for a discussion, it will be added.

4. Results are open

Everything is open so that delegates can access the information they helped to create at the workshop and – more importantly – so can anyone in the research community. Information on the planning of the workshop, the agenda items, the presentations, the reporting-back sessions, and post-workshop progress will all be available on the CW12 website.

5. It's an enjoyable event

Two days of discussion can be pretty intense, but it is also fun. The vast majority of our previous attendees want to re-attend the following year, and just last year we were given an average feedback rating of 4.3 out of 5 for enjoyability.

Who should attend?

• Researchers from all disciplines
• Software developers
• Project managers
• Funders