Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
By Simon Hettrick
Deputy Director, Software Sustainability Institute
Co-Director, Southampton Research Software Group
Software in research:
in general and in Southampton
19 December 2018 - Commercialising code workshop Southampton @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Is software important to research?
These slides: bit.ly/CommercialCodeSoton
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
Percentage of cross-council funding into software-reliant research
Software in publications
65%
31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers
Software is rapidly becoming the fundamental research tool
This is good...
These slides: bit.ly/CommercialCodeSoton
of researchers who develop
code have no training
24%
of group leaders looking to commercialise code would not feel comfortable sharing their code
50%
REF 2014 publication submissions
>15,000
REF 2014 software submissions
58
You can't have reliable results without reliable software
You can't commercialise code unless it's reliable
Producing reliable code is easier if you have access to software engineering expertise
Increasing access to software experts
These slides: bit.ly/CommercialCodeSoton
Recruiting expertise is difficult...
...retaining expertise is phenomenally difficult
Research
Software
Engineering
Researcher
Software
Engineer
Research Software Engineer
bit.ly/HistoryRSE
RSE Groups at
20 organisations
www.rse.ac.uk
www.rsg.soton.ac.uk
What do we do?
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Advice
These slides: bit.ly/CommercialCodeSoton
What do we do?
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Advice
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Software engineering
TopoMD
Illustrating relationships between clusters of gene expression
Activity Mapper
Coordinating and sharing outreach activities
rsg.soton.ac.uk/consultancy
What do we do?
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Advice
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Software engineering
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Training
Results of teaching version control
rsg.soton.ac.uk/training
What do we do?
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Advice
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Software engineering
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Training
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Community building
Commercialising code
These slides: bit.ly/CommercialCodeSoton
Licence
More details: https://goo.gl/CoS7ao
Agreement with university and collaborators
Understand your market
Studies
- 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
Contact
s.hettrick@software.ac.uk
@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/
These slides: bit.ly/CommercialCodeSoton
Support for software in Southampton
By Simon Hettrick
Support for software in Southampton
Presentation on software prevalence in research and discussion of barriers and incentives, 19 December 2019, Southampton.
