1. Ticket Type: Delegate/Member, Presenter/Member, Delegate/Non-member, Presenter/non-member
  2. Full Name*
  3. Your name as you would like it to appear on the name badge*
  4. Email address*
  5. Job Title (will appear on name badge)*
  6. Organisation (will appear on name badge)*
  7. If you are located in the UK, what region of the UK are you based in?* This is for the Regional RSE Groups activity to bring RSEs together.
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • North
    • Midlands
    • Wales
    • East
    • London
    • South
    • South West
  8. Pronouns (will appear on name badge if completed)
  9. The 2019 conference lanyard was deliberately generic without a year printed on it. Indicate whether you still have yours and can recycle it for this year.*
    • Yes I have mine still so will bring it.
    • No, no idea where that went/never had one.
  10. Workshop Choice – Morning

On Wednesday 6th September, you have a choice of workshops, walkthroughs, an unconference track or other. We need to know an indication of your choice to decide on room size but you won’t be held to this choice on the day.  Full descriptions of the workshops can be viewed on the conference programme at http://app.oxfordabstracts.com/RSECon22/s

  • Workshop 1 – Accelerate Data Engineering Pipelines with cuDF and Visualise Data with Plotly on Baskerville
  • Workshop 2 – Make your Python code 10,000 times faster with parallel numpy!
  • Workshop 3 – Cooking FAIR research software with HERMES
  • Walkthroughs 1 and 2 – ‘How to Use Git to Look like a very stable Genius’, ‘A FAIR data pipeline: provenance-driven data management for traceable scientific workflows’, ‘Introduction to ML Ops for RSEs’, ‘Building a project on the Zooniverse citizen science platform’
  • Unconferencing Track
  • Other

11. Workshop Choice – Afternoon

On Wednesday 6th September, you have a choice of workshops, Walkthroughs, RSE Worldwide, an unconference track or other. We need to know an indication of your choice to decide on room size but you won’t be held to this choice on the day. Full descriptions of the workshops can be viewed on the conference programme at http://app.oxfordabstracts.com/RSECon22/s

  • Workshop 4 – Who Does Research Software Engineering (RSE)?
  • Workshop 5 – Quarto: a library to run them all? A collaborative exercise to use, learn and assess quarto for authoring reproducible documents in different scenarios
  • Workshop 6 – Collaborative Lesson Development with The Carpentries Workbench
  • Walkthroughs 3 – ‘Playing games in Ultra (wideband) space: Using Ultrawideband Radio (UWB) for spatial immersive experiences in Augmented Reality’, ‘Scientific communication and self-publishing-communicating your work using Curvenote, a modern open-source writing, and publishing system’.
  • RSE Worldwide – meet and discuss with emerging RSE groups
  • Unconferencing track
  • other

12. Thanks to sponsorship, the Society is hosting a ’Welcome to Newcastle’ dinner at the iconic Palace of Art on Monday 5th September. Also known as the Wylam Brewery, this recently renovated property is a micro brewery that resides in Exhibition Park. This dinner will take place the night before the conference opens, bringing delegates together for some street food and beer. Reserve your place. (yes/no)

13. Through sponsorship of the conference, Microsoft is hosting an informal dinner at ‘By the River Brew’ on Tuesday 6th September. A hip dining experience created from repurposed shipping containers creating a street food market situated underneath the iconic Tyne Bridge right next to the river. Reserve your place. (yes/no)

14. Through sponsorship of the conference, our Platinum sponsor Oracle is hosting the conference formal dinner which will take place in the Baronial Hall at the Newcastle Civic Centre on Wednesday 7th September. Reserve your place. (yes/no)

15. Do you have any dietary requirements or allergies?*

  • None
  • Vegan
  • Vegetarian
  • Pescetarian
  • Halal
  • Kosher
  • Gluten-free
  • Lactose free
  • Fish allergy
  • Seafood allergy
  • Peanut allergy
  • Egg allergy
  • FODMAPS
  • No alcohol
  • other

16. We may have a photographer recording the event. Indicate your consent to be photographed. (You will need to wear a yellow lanyard to indicate your preference not to be photographed). (yes/no)

17. We may be recording the conference (both audio and visual) so as a presenter and delegate your presentation or questions will be recorded. Indicate your preference of being recorded. (yes/no)

18. Can we send an email to you for feedback about this conference? No data is transferred to a 3rd party but we will use this info within the Society to inform next year’s conference. (yes/no)

19. Would you like to join the Society mailing list for RSE News and Announcements? (yes/no/already on it)

20. Do you require a formal invitation letter for Visa purposes? (yes/no)

21. With permission, your contact information can be passed to the sponsors. Indicate your preference. (yes/no)

Optional Demographics Questions 

Please complete this as much as you feel comfortable to do. We’ll use these results to compare the diversity of the participants of RSECon across each year, and how it compares to other events and Society volunteering opportunities. Our aim is to use these insights to improve diversity and inclusion at our events and in the RSE Community. Thank you for taking the time to complete it. 

  1. Do you have accessibility requirements? (We will email you to discuss how we can help you get the most from the conference). (yes/no)
  2. What is your ethnicity?
    • White
    • Mixed or multi-ethnicity
    • Black
    • Asian
    • Hispanic
    • Prefer not to say
    • Other
  3. Describe your ethnicity in your own words.
  4. What best describes your gender?
    • Man
    • Woman
    • Non-Binary
    • Prefer not to say
    • Other
  5. Do you identify as trans?
    • Yes
    • No
    • Prefer not to say
  6. What term best describes your sexual orientation?
    • Heterosexual
    • Gay
    • Lesbian
    • Bisexual
    • Asexual
    • Pansexual
    • Queer
    • Other
    • Prefer not to say
  7. What is your age group?
    • Up to 20
    • 20-24
    • 25-34
    • 35-44
    • 45-54
    • 55-64
    • 65 and older
    • Prefer not to say
  8. Do you consider yourself a disabled person?
    • Yes
    • No
    • Prefer not to say