Simon Hettrick
Deputy Director
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
The Francis Crick Institute, 12 February 2016
*Refs [1-3]
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Time spent coding
Primarily self-taught
69%
92%
30%
90%
Limited resources
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
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
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