Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline is 17.00 on 9 September 2025).
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Welcome to the ECRI RCDS hackathon 2025 – Coding and Sustainability!
Tuesday 22 July 2025, 10.00-17.00, SK Campus
You are welcome to join us for the 2025 ECRl’s Research Computing and Data Science Programme hackathon. Last year, we experimented with profiling, optimisation, generative AI and GitHub’s Copilot. This year, we will continue the journey of AI-assisted coding with feature selection, optimisation and aim to develop sustainable code. You can leverage generative AI tools, good old Stackoverflow, or anything else you can think of – as long as your code runs within our Python test framework.
We’ll start the day with a guest talk on practical sustainable computing considerations. Afterwards, we’ll move on to a series of short-ish programming tasks. There will be lunch and prizes!
🌍 Participate in a Climate Fresk 🌍
Take part in this global innovative workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of climate change through an engaging card game. Collaborate with fellow participants to understand the causes and consequences of climate change while building a visual representation of global systems.
Sign up – Open to all Imperial students and staff
⚙️ Systems thinking & critical analysis: gain insight into complex, interconnected global issues.
💬 Climate & science communication: understand the foundations of climate science and develop the language to communicate key facts confidently
🧠 Reflective thinking: engage in structured reflection on your role in systems change
🤝 Collaboration & peer learning: work in diverse groups to solve problems, co-create meaning and negotiate shared understandings
🗣 Confidence in dialogue: develop your ability to speak about challenging topics with nuance and respect, listen actively, and contribute constructively in group discussions
📊 Evidence-based reasoning: strengthen your ability to interpret complex data and draw insights that inform decisions
Open to all members of the Imperial community
Dates for summer 2025:
SILFEST tickets are now on sale! Buy at our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/195107/silfest-2025/
We’re excited to invite you to a series of hands-on World of Food cooking workshops, where colleagues (staff and students) will share personal stories about the food and culture that matter most to them.
Each workshop will include collaborative cooking, storytelling from our colleagues, and of course, enjoying the meal we’ve prepared together.
These workshops are a celebration of our rich cultural diversity, the values we share, and the joy of coming together. Food has a remarkable ability to connect us on a fundamental level, and exploring what it means to each of us is a powerful way to build mutual appreciation and understanding.
You can sign up using the link below to participate in this year’s sessions. To ensure a fair process, each workshop has a registration deadline. After the deadline, participants will be selected through a lottery. Selected individuals will have 48 hours to confirm their spot. Any unconfirmed spots will be offered to those on the randomized waiting list.
All workshops will take place on Wednesdays in the Chemical Kitchen (Room 763, Chemistry Building, South Kensington):
Feel free to join individually or as a group – no cooking experience is needed, and everyone is welcome!
Spaces are limited, so be sure to register before the deadlines.
Join us in South Kensington this summer on one of our exciting day and evening classes in the arts, humanities and languages.
From Introductory French to Beginners Watercolours and British Sign Language to Discovering Art Therapy, we have a wide range of courses designed to educate, inform and entertain.
No previous experience is needed in any subject, so whether you fancy taking up printmaking as a hobby, starting that novel you know you have inside you, or you’ve always wanted to know the secrets of modern art, you’ll find a course here for you.
Enrolling now – for full details visit http://www.imperial.ac.uk/adult-ed
Join the new Viva Engage channel: Measuring Visibility and Impact
Scholarly Communications Management team has created a new Viva Engage community channel, Measuring Visibility and Impact to share insights and updates and invite discussion and collaboration on the various tools that imperial subscribes to. Tips and guidance on responsible use of metrics will also be shared.
Imperial subscribes to a number of powerful tools (e.g. Altmetric for tracking mentions of research publications on social media and news and Overton for monitoring citations on policy documents), but many staff and students are either unaware of these sources or unsure how to use them effectively. Through the Measuring Visibility and Impact channel, we aim to bridge this gap by advertising the tools, sharing updates about them, interesting case studies and organising training sessions to equip you to work with them.
The research analytics products allow you to:
The community channel will support Imperial’s commitment to the responsible use of metrics by promoting best practice, fostering awareness, and keeping you updated about initiatives and opportunities. The channel will serve the ultimate objective of building a healthy research culture at Imperial by helping us break out of the dysfunctional culture of publish-or-perish.
Please join the Measuring Visibility and Impact community channel on Viva Engage and share this message with your contacts who might be interested.