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
2 February 2018 - Fellows inaugural meeting, Manchester @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
The Policy team
Simon Hettrick
Neil Chue Hong
Olivier Philippe
A quick history of policy
"How many researchers use software?"
Damnit Jim I'm a physicist not a social scientist
Damnit Neil I'm a physicist not a social scientist
What did we find?
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-09-12-its-impossible-conduct-research-without-software-say-7-out-10-uk-researchers
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
About 1/3 of RCUK budget invested in software-reliant research
http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2014-10-22-840-million-uks-investment-software-reliant-research-2013
About 7% of jobs.ac.uk involves software development
http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2015-08-18-policy-update-surveys-jobs-and-diversity
And finally...
...never email 15,000 researchers
Research Software Engineers
www.rse.ac.uk
Growth of UKRSE Association
The first conference for
Research Software Engineers
38 paper submissions
13 workshop submissions
202 attendees
14 countries
Background?
PhD
68%
MSc
19%
Undergrad
&
Other
13%
Gender
Interesting stuff...
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We study the research software community
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We campaign on issues that the community highlights
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We're always happy to collaborate
The Comms team
Simon Hettrick
Deputy Director
s.hettrick@software.ac.uk
Simon Hettrick
Selina Aragon
Big job,
little resources
Website
Blog
Maybe we should write something interesting...
200k
100k
0
2010
2013
2016
Annual visits
Visits
Community editors
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Tell us about your work
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We like to experiment
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Don't forget your stickers...
Introduction to policy and comms
By Simon Hettrick
Introduction to policy and comms
2018 Fellows inauguration meeting, 2 February 2018, University of Manchester, Manchester
