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

These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 

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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.