Software Sustainability Institute

 

• Founded in 2010

• "Improve the software used across all research disciplines"

• Initially EPSRC funded, now funded by all seven RCs

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"Not at all"

"Vital"

A brief history

of RSE

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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

RSE Groups at

30 organisations

http://bit.ly/RSEGroupsUK

• Founded in 2015
• 6 RSEs (recruiting now)
• 60+ projects across all faculties

www.rsg.soton.ac.uk

Policy

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UKRI/RCs

• SSI works closely with UKRI and the RCs
• UKRI and all RCs support RSEs on bids
  • "The UK’s research and innovation infrastructure: opportunities to grow our capability" (UKRI) 
    • RSE Fellowship (EPSRC & STFC)
    • Software for Research Communities (EPSRC)

  • "RSE Knowledge Integration Landscape Review "(EPSRC)

• UKRI infrastructure fund
  • Resulted from Walport + roadmap + lobbying
  • A lot of surveying across RCs

• Where do RSEs fit? Technician Commitment/Researcher Concordat

International

• SSI works with ARC, Canarie, EU, Moore foundation, NSF, Sloan foundation, OECD
• Recent reports on RSEs and research software
  • "Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science" (OECD)
  • National Agenda for Research Software (ARC)
  • Recognising the Importance of Software in Research – RSEs, a UK Example (EU)
  • National Plan for Open Science (FR)
  • Something from NSF...
• The UK is not the only country in which investment in RSEs will grow

Next steps nationally

• Recognition via assessment
  • Hidden REF taps into interest for supporting non-traditional research outputs and roles
  • Rise of other hidden roles
• More lobbying for support of RSEs who do not work in an RSE Group
• EPSRC e-Infrastructure SAT

• Promoting business plan to overcome limits on growth

• Training: via CDTs/DTPs and Doctoral School
  • Keen to promote united approach on training

• Enterprise: working with School, FEPS, Futureworlds and RIS on promoting software as route to enterprise

• IRIDIS: partnering with iSolutions

Next steps in Southampton

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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8 years/one slide

Image credits

 

Birthday cake - Dark Dwarf - CC BY-ND

Colossus - Public Domain

Supercomputer - Gemmaribasmaspoch - CC By-SA

Queen's College - Kaofenlio - CC By-SA

Anonymous crowd -  Yann Beauson - CC BY-NC-ND

Tabascos - DJM - CC By-SA

Tug o' war - Roger Davies - CC By-SA