Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Research assessment is the dull sounding, but vital missing element from true recognition for RSEs
Simon Hettrick
5 September 2023 - RSECon 23, Swansea - @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
...no, really
"UK HEIs must embrace the REF’s invitation to improve research culture"
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-heis-must-embrace-refs-invitation-improve-research-culture
What is an RSE?
(A vital-but-unrecognised role)
How were RSEs acknowledged in papers in 2022?
RSE Survey 2022: https://softwaresaved.github.io/international-survey-2022/section/publications-and-citations/#world
Photo by Niilo Isotalo on Unsplash
Is there more to life than publications?
Research
Software
Engineers
We need to assess the success of roles based on the work they do
How is research assessed?
Not publications
144 kg
Publications
6,000kg
Software - 350 g
Recognising all research outputs and every role that makes research possible
www.hidden-ref.org
- Training materials and courses
- Grimpact
- Citizen science
- Enabling access to facilities
- Community building
- Standards
New categories
The Hidden Role
| CC-BY William Murphy |
120 submissions in total
It's more than just a a campaign
If we don't recognise the people who are vital to research,
we limit our ability to conduct research
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Ask your line manager about your/your group's role in the next REF
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Find out who in your school/faculty/university is dealing with the REF submission and ask them the same
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Raise the change to the REF with as many vital-but-unrecognised people as you know
Call to arms
https://hidden-ref.org/festival-of-hidden-ref/
21 September 2023, Bristol
Thank you!
@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195, EPSRC Grant no: EP/S021779/1
Licence
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Slides
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Research assessment is the dull sounding, but vital missing element from true recognition for Research Software Engineers.
By Simon Hettrick
