The report for our November 2025 forum is now available here.
Held on 5th November 2025 at Durham University, the forum was hosted by the Chair of CCP-AHC, Dr Eamonn Bell. The agenda was designed to explore wide-reaching DRI topics that are particularly relevant for communities, such as identifying impact and related metrics beyond traditional research outputs, as well as inclusivity as a driver for better research communities.
Alongside these important topics, the future of the UKRI research community model was a key topic, with this meeting timed at the point just ahead of the next phases for both the CCPs and HECs. The meeting allowed community chairs to receive the latest information directly from all UKRI Research Council representatives, DRI, SSI and CoSeC, while directly feeding back. Discussions were also held the developing Forum format and community aspirations and priorities for elective future funding given the new compute resource support landscape.
“I left this meeting in Durham more enthused than ever about the state of the computational community landscape within the UK,” enthuses Dr Stephen Longshaw, CoSeC Director. “Communities continue to adapt, grow and thrive. The total number of funded CCPs and HECs that CoSeC works with directly now sits at 25, with further communities out there. Following our recent call to create scoping projects for new CCPs the landscape is becoming truly cross-UKRI in nature and the tangible outputs seen from this model can only be described as world-class. I have no doubt that what we have now is fundamentally the right approach and it is clear from recent opportunities that it is adaptable to whatever UKRI needs the community approach to be, with this is in mind I am very excited to see what next year brings.”