In 2025, QCIF Digital Research’s Skills Development team delivered a major national training program supporting research, data and digital capability across Australia.

Across member workshops and project-based programs, the team delivered 76 workshops across 24 topics, reaching 1,900 attendees from 90 organisations and delivering more than 609 hours of training.

Demand remained strong, with 3,358 registrations and 697 waitlisted participants, particularly across programming, machine learning, high-performance computing and research data skills.

Participant feedback was consistently positive, with strong satisfaction, high likelihood to recommend and clear demand for more advanced and follow-on training.

Alongside core workshop delivery, Skills Development expanded into broader workforce and capability-building initiatives, including the ANU–NCI HPC and AI Training Partnership, the Quantum Workforce Readiness pilot, and university internship and work-integrated learning partnerships.

Together, these activities reflect QCIF Digital Research’s growing role as a partner in building sustained digital research capability, not just delivering one-off training.

We would like to thank the QCIF Digital Research Skills Development team, whose work continues to make a significant contribution to building Australia’s digital research capability.

We also acknowledge and thank the universities, research organisations and partners who collaborated with us throughout the year.

Together, these efforts are helping to create a stronger, more capable and connected research workforce, ready to meet the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly data-driven future.