The focuses of these projects is on growing and sustaining the UK’s digital research workforce—spanning researchers and research technical professionals such as research software engineers, data stewards/scientists, and research infrastructure engineers. It invests in coordinated, scalable training from foundational digital and data skills to advanced HPC, cloud, AI/ML, research software engineering, cybersecurity, and FAIR/Open data practices; delivers cohorts, fellowships and placements; and develops shared, open learning resources that can be reused across disciplines and institutions. Alongside training, it strengthens career pathways and recognition (including progression frameworks and professional development), embeds equality, diversity and inclusion, and links academia, national facilities and industry so that skills keep pace with evolving technologies and can be applied effectively across the UK research and innovation system.

Data Storytelling for Digital Research Infrastructure

The project aims to addresses one of the UKRI DRI’s strategic priority themes around skills gaps. The project will establish data storytelling as a mainstream approach to the communication of...

Evidence‑led curation skills for sensitive data

HDR UK is working with partners across the sector, including the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee, the Software Sustainability Institute at the University of Southampton,...

UKRI Living Benchmarks

UKRI Living Benchmarks is a community‑driven initiative to turn skills for Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) into measurable, reusable, and continually updated (“living”) benchmarks. Its goal is to help researchers and...

Building a national imaging data stewardship skills base

HAI‑End

Supercomputers have become a core accelerant of progress in computational research disciplines and fields relying on artificial intelligence and simulations of physical phenomena. Tools including compilers, profilers, debuggers, parallelisation libraries,...

DRIFT – DRI‑focused training for research facilitators and teams

Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities (DISKAH)

Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities (DISKAH) is a UK‑wide initiative to strengthen the digital capability of researchers, students, and professionals across the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage sectors. Centred...

DiRAC Training Skills

DiRAC Training and Skills is a coordinated programme that helps researchers across the STFC communities—astronomy, cosmology, particle and nuclear physics—make the most of the DiRAC high‑performance computing ecosystem. It supports...

New approaches to digital skills development

UKRI Digital Skills Catalyst

The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst will connect researchers and innovators to a catalogue of CPD training materials through the provision of a dynamic learning portal. The portal will provide...

Building computational capacity among global data service staff

Digital research infrastructures quietly underpin today’s research ecosystem. They connect researchers, policymakers, and innovators with high‑performance computing, large‑scale datasets, advanced tools, and the know‑how needed to pursue ambitious, creative work.

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Structural biology training platforms for experimental and predictive approaches