By Simon Hettrick
13 January 2016 - DIAMOND
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
www.software.ac.uk
@SoftwareSaved
www.rse.ac.uk
@ResearchSoftEng
University of Southampton
www.rsg.soton.ac.uk
@RSGsoton
...I'm not a Research Software Engineer
Postdocs
PhDs
Investigators
*Refs [2-4]
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Time spent coding
Primarily self-taught
69%
92%
30%
90%
March 2013
Coming February 2016
4 universities to adopt the RSE career plan by 2019
References
[1] http://www.scientific-computing.com/news/news_story.php?news_id=2737
[2] "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
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-08-23-ten-reasons-be-research-software-engineer
s.hettrick@software.ac.uk