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.

The growth and professionalisation of Research Software Engineers

Presented at the Collaborations Workshop 2020.

Hidden REF slides

Presented at the Software Sustainability Institute Advisory Board meeting 5 March 2020.

Software survey

Presented at the Software Sustainability Institute Advisory Board meeting 5 March 2020.

Communities of Practice

Presented at the Software Sustainability Institute Advisory Board meeting 5 March 2020.

Software survey 2020

Presented at the Software Sustainability Institute Advisory Board meeting 5 March 2020.

Software, research & Research Software Engineers

A seminar about software and RSEs presented at the National Oceanographic Centre on 21 February 2020.

Policy overview for Fellows inaugural 2020

Outreach overview for Fellows inaugural 2020

Society of Research Software Engineering

Introduction to Society of RSE presented at RSLondon and South East event at the Royal Society, London.

Understanding software (and staying out of trouble)

Presented at the N8 RSE Leader and Aspiring Leaders Meeting, University of Leeds.

HiddenREF one-off slide

Software: risks, reproducibility and sustainability

Presented at the Reproducibilitea workshop on 12 December 2019 at the University of Southampton.

What resources needed for sustainability break out

Conducted at the National Biofilms Innovation Centre Software Sustainability workshop on 28 November 2019 in Birmingham.

Exploring software risks break out

Conducted at the National Biofilms Innovation Centre Software Sustainability workshop on 28 November 2019 in Birmingham.

Software: risks, reproducibility and sustainability

Presented at the National Biofilms Innovation Centre Software Sustainability workshop on 28 November 2019 in Birmingham.