Focus was on providing access to software engineering

Software

Training

Community

Policy

Providing software-engineering expertise

Growing a training community

Collecting and using evidence to improve policies

Increasing recognition of software across domains

Outreach

Scaling up everything else

2012: birth of the name 

1428

members

March 2019

2014: the UKRSE Association

2016: the RSE Conference

Australia/New Zealand: @rse_aunz

Belgium: @rse_be

Germany: @RSE_de

Netherlands: @nl_rse

Nordic:  @nordic_rse

South Africa

UK: @ResearchSoftEng

USA: @us_rse

2017: internationalisation

www.society-rse.org

2019: foundation

http://bit.ly/2TOkK01

RSE Groups at

29 organisations

http://bit.ly/RSEGroupsUK

Funders provided support

Research

Software

Engineering

Researcher

Software

Engineer

Researcher

developer

Research

Software

Engineer

1. Significant growth of RSEs across the world

2. Growing support for the role across academia

3. Policymakers and funders supporting RSEs

4. The community is resilient, collaborative, democratic and active... but unpaid

1. Pressure to change how research software is funded

2. Pressure to change how research impact is measured

3. More vital but unrecognised roles will mobilise