TSN conference 2024

The Hidden REF: librarians and other hidden roles

A talk for the Science Council policy group on the ways in which team research is changing academia, and the ways in which research assessment need to change to catch up.

Skills, assessment and the Hidden REF

A talk for the Research14 on the ways in which team research is changing academia, and the ways in which research assessment need to change to catch up.

Changing how institutions value software

A presentation on how we change the assessment of software for the International RSE Research meeting on 16 January 2024.

Skills, assessment and the Hidden REF

A talk for the Science Council policy group on the ways in which team research is changing academia, and the ways in which research assessment need to change to catch up.

The growth of Research Software Engineering and its vital role in research

Presentation for the ETH forum on the importance of RSE and how supporting RSE advances research

Short talk on the RSE career soton 23

This was a 5 min talk at our Research Software Community event on the 4 Dec 2023

The growth of Research Software Engineering and its vital role in research

Presentation for the EnhanceR conference in Basel on the importance of RSE and how supporting RSE advances research

Welcome at the Festival of Hidden REF

A welcome to the Festival, some history of the campaign and an overview of how the Festival will operate.

Enterprise survey and focus groups

Changing academic policy

RSC Technician's Conference 2023

Research assessment is the dull sounding, but vital missing element from true recognition for Research Software Engineers.

RSE Leaders September 2023

Training helpers talk

Presented at faculty leadership away day

CRUK 2023

The role of software and digital skills in research

VAST 2023

4 minute intro to the subject of research incentives for Virtual Astronomy Software Talks.

Research software, research culture and RSEs

A quick overview of how the Hidden REF came about. Put together to elicit conversation during a one hour "chatter" session.

Faculty forum on enterprise

What's happening with RSE Groups

The role of research assessment in open research

Talk presented at the University of Southampton for the UKRN Open Research Programme meeting.

Celebrating all research outputs

Presentation on the Hidden REF and research assessment to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DORA.

On the path to better sustainability for research software

This presentation on sustainability was written for SIAM 23 and should have been presented by me. However, an illness prevented me from flying and the presentation was given by Dan Katz (thank you Dan!).

Presentation on FEPS enterprise

Presented at faculty leadership away day

Software, enterprise and skills

Why we need a KEE community

Presentation given to help set the scene for the first KEE community meeting at the University of Southampton on 26th October 2022.

What skills do RSEs need?

A quick overview of how the Hidden REF came about. Put together to elicit conversation during a one hour "chatter" session.

Hidden REF talk for Research on Research Registry

A quick overview of how the Hidden REF came about. Put together to elicit conversation during a one hour "chatter" session.

The Enterprise Community in FEPS

Presented at the FEPS Enterprise away day on 22 July 2022.

Festival of open research

Making the magic happen

Copy of Collaborations Workshop 2022 intro

Research assessment talk

Collaborations Workshop 2022 intro

EPSRC Council

Open Software

Online presentation for IROC Open Research Workshop, British Library, 26 August 2021.

RSE: history, impact and strategy

Presentation to EPSRC University of Southampton Community of Practice

Copy of The birth of RSE

Introduction to Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2020) at Supercomputing 2020 online conference.

Software skills are vital to research

Presentation to describe the importance of software in research and the reason for collecting software skills. Presented at Festival of Doctoral Research at the University of Southampton

Software sustainability: why it's vital to research

Touching on the importance of software, a description of software sustainability as culture change, a short tour of some of the Institute's work and a list of 5 things anyone can do to support software sustainability. Presented at York Open Research event on 20 April 2021.

the Hidden REF

A short overview of the Hidden REF competition for the Technician Commitment signatory event.

RSE challenges and successes: a lightning-fast history

Presented at SORSE event on "Building Research Software Communities: How to increase engagement in your community". More info: https://researchsoft.github.io/community-ws/

A journey of reproducibility from Excel to Pandas

A 2 minute lightning talk on how one of my many shortcomings was mercilessly skewered by a tweet, and how it changed my approach to research.

There's more to research than researchers

Until recently, research was the domain of academics only, but this has started to change. In this presentation, I discuss why academia is starting to support a more diverse family of roles, and look at the benefits of the RSE career path.

RSE history presentation for NSF

The birth of RSE

Introduction to Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2020) at Supercomputing 2020 online conference.

How many RSEs in the world?

A short presentation to investigate how many RSEs exist. Presented to SORSE.

introduction to DC

Why Recognising software experts is key to research

Presentation for CERSE group at University of Edinburgh. Conducted by Blackboard.