Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Director of Strategy at the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
On the path to better sustainability for research software
1 March 2023 - SIAM '23 @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Simon Hettrick
www.software.ac.uk
If we want software sustainability as default behaviour will require culture change in research
How do you change academic culture?
Advocacy
Fellowship programme
Fellowship
https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/fellowship-programme
Skills
The Carpentries
https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/carpentry-programmes
https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/python-intermediate-development/
Roles
Research Software Engineers
https://society-rse.org/
~10,000 RSEs worldwide
Image courtesy Ian Cosden
Incentives
https://hidden-ref.org/
Marathon, not a sprint
Thank you!
@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195, EPSRC Grant no: EP/S021779/1
Licence
© Simon Hettrick
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Slides
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Image licences
- Cleanroom - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/DsC24AEuYjc
- Sunflowers - Gandalf's Gallery - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/8993664971
- AI - www.vpnsrus.com CC BY 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/152824664@N07/30188200627
- Change is coming - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/-iOE0qBkioc
- Fellowship - University of Edinburgh on behalf of Software Sustainability Institute CC BY-NC 2.5
- Carpentries - bebatut CC BY-SA 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/134305289@N03/42464629032/in/album-72157667641880727/
- RSEs - by permission of Society of RSE
- Hidden REF - CC-BY
- Britons! - Public domain - https://loc.getarchive.net/media/britons-your-country-needs-you-printed-by-saunders-and-cullingham-2-and-3-burgon
- Dawn - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/Go02ECyCkfc
Research software is any software that is used to generate, process or analyse results that you intend to appear in a publication.
It can be anything from a few lines of code written by yourself, to a professionally developed software package.
On the path to better sustainability for research software
By Simon Hettrick
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!).
