Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and co-Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Recognising software expertise is key to research
13 May 2020 - Virtual CERSE Meeting @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
By Simon Hettrick
How it used to be
In the beginning...
Vive la révolution!
Zeitgeists!
It's not just the zeitgeists...
These slides: https://bit.ly/2Ajc0IJ
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
Percentage of cross-council funding in software-reliant research
Software in publications
65%
31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers
Software is vital to research
Who writes the software?
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It wasn't software engineers
Online courses and books
Attended a course
No training
29%
46%
50%
25%
0%
25%
Academics
Everyone else
in the entire
world
People who are
important in academia
The Venn of academic importance
People who are NOT
important in academia
People who develop software must be recognised
These slides: https://bit.ly/2Ajc0IJ
Research
Software
Engineering
Researcher
Software
Engineer
Researcher
developer
Research
Software
Engineer
1428
members
March 2019
UK RSE Association
RSE Conference
rse.ac.uk/conf/2019
Australia/New Zealand: @rse_aunz
Germany: @RSE_de
Netherlands: @nl_rse
Nordic: @nordic_rse
UK: @ResearchSoftEng
USA: us-rse.org
RSE Groups at
28 organisations
bit.ly/RSEGroupsInUK
http://bit.ly/UKRIRoadmap2019
p.114-126
"Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come"
Now what?
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191,000
outputs submitted
185,000
outputs in publication categories
38
outputs in software category
The way in which the REF exercise is conducted overlooks many of the people who are vital to the success of research.
http://hidden-ref.org
@hiddenREF
Thank you!
@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Licence
© Simon Hettrick
These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Studies and links
- Software survey:
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-09-06-journey-reproducibility-excel-pandas
- Grants data analysis:
https://github.com/softwaresaved/software_in_grants_GTR
- Publication analysis coming soon
- Top ten reasons to be an RSE: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-08-23-ten-reasons-be-research-software-engineer
Picture credits
Where not stated on image:
Big data - Tumisu
Blockchain - mmi19
Cloud computing - Pete Linforth
Cybersecurity - Darwin Laganzon
DNA - Gerd Altman
IBM PC - Ruben de Rijcke
IOT - jeferrb
Machine Learning - Gordon Johnson
Pills in hand - Tom Bullock
Why Recognising software experts is key to research
By Simon Hettrick
Why Recognising software experts is key to research
Presentation for CERSE group at University of Edinburgh. Conducted by Blackboard.
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