Welcome!

Simon Hettrick

Software Sustainability Institute

22 April 2016 - RSE Fellowship Launch, Royal Society   ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

Morning

  • Supporting a new role in research: the RSE Fellowship
  • How RSEs can advance research
  • Lessons from a successful Research Software Group
     

Afternoon

  • Discussion sessions                                                                              

A few facts

about RSEs

The people who write code not papers

Definition?

How many are there?

> 555

< 9,000

Early survey results

Work contributed to a paper?

Yes
90%

No
10%

Background?

PhD
68%

MSc
19%

Undergrad
&
Other

13%

Bus factor?

One
42%

Two
32%

Three
13%

Four
5%

>Four
8%

Gender

First conference of RSEs

 

15-16 September 2016
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

 

www.rse.ac.uk/conf2016

 

Contact

s.hettrick@software.ac.uk

20160422 RSE Fellowship Launch

By Simon Hettrick

20160422 RSE Fellowship Launch

RSE Fellows launch at Royal Society

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