Research Software talk with Knowledge Exchange

Opening paragraph of the report?

Background and why

1. We must raise awareness of the fundamental role of software in research

2. Research software should be recognised as a valuable research object

3. Funders should use their position to promote software sustainability

4. Skills related to software sustainability must be embedded in research

5. We must create organisations to act as focal points for software sustainability expertise

- from section 5

- the Why? section

- from section 6

- from section 7

- from section 8

- not sure about this one

- could allude to it in another way?

- would like to raise RSEs

- from section 9

- Back to Bas?

By Simon Hettrick

Slides used to prep Bas for my talk in Thesaloniki. He incorporated them into a Powerpoint.

Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.