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/

Thank you!

@sjh5000

ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195, EPSRC Grant no: EP/S021779/1

Licence

 © Simon Hettrick

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