Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Welcome to the Software Sustainability Institute
By Simon Hettrick
Deputy Director
2 February 2018 - Fellows inaugural meeting, Manchester @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
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These slides: bit.ly/FellowsInaug2018
Cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research
Big problem...
...limited resources
These slides: bit.ly/FellowsInaug2018
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
Community
A platform to publicise our findings
Software
Training
Community
Policy
Over 50 projects
All 7 Research Councils
Over 5000 learners
130 trainers
80 guides with 300,000 views
Demographic studies
Finance and career studies
Created an international movement
112 Fellows across domains
Over 40 workshops
Community
Over 20,000 hits per month
Over 20 posts a month
Why the Fellowship?
Physics
Computer science
The
SSI
in 2010
We are collaborative by nature
Our stakeholders love the Fellowship programme, because it represents engagement from across the disciplines and organisations that they support.
We love the Fellowship because it's a constant source of fantastic ideas and productive collaborations
Welcome to the Institute
By Simon Hettrick
Welcome to the Institute
2018 Fellows inauguration meeting, 2 February 2018, University of Manchester, Manchester
