Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
The Software Sustainability Institute
Simon Hettrick
Deputy Director
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
The Francis Crick Institute, 12 February 2016
Cultivating world-class research with software
*Refs [1-3]
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Time spent coding
Primarily self-taught
69%
92%
30%
90%
Big problem
Limited resources
Software
Training
Community
Policy
Helping the community to develop software that meets the needs of reliable, reproducible, and reusable research
Delivering essential software skills to researchers via CDTs, institutions & doctoral schools
Collecting evidence on the community’s software use & sharing with stakeholders
Bringing together the right people to understand and address topical issues
Software
Training
Community
Policy
Over 50 projects
All 7 Research Councils
Over 2000 learners
Over 40 courses
80 guides
50000 readers
RSE campaign
Demographic studies
Finance and career studies
76 Fellows across domains
Over 20 workshops
Research Software Engineers
"The people who write code, not software"
Mar '12: CW raises issue
Jan '13: Policy group launches
Sep '13: RSE Workshop
Early '14: Set up association
Mar '14: EPSRC interested and funds
Sep '14: First AGM
Jan '15: Association becomes democratic
May '15: EPSRC RSE Fellowship
Aug '15: RSE Leaders forms
Feb '16: RSE Survey
Over to software...
References
[1] "It's impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers"http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2014-12-04-its-impossible-conduct-research-without-software-say-7-out-10-uk-researchers
[2] Hannay JE, Langtangen HP, MacLeod C, Pfahl D, Singer J, et al.. (2009) How do scientists develop and use scientific software? In: Proceedings Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/SECSE.2009.5069155.
[3] Prabhu P, Jablin TB, Raman A, Zhang Y, Huang J, et al.. (2011) A survey of the practice of computational science. In: Proceedings 24th ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. pp. 19:1–19:12. doi:10.1145/2063348.2063374.
Contact
Email: s.hettrick@software.ac.uk
Twitter: @SoftwareSaved
Web: www.software.ac.uk
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