Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Software, research and Research Software Engineers
By Simon Hettrick
21 February 2020 - NOC Seminar @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
How it used
to be
Suddenly...
computers
Vive la révolution!
It's not just the zeitgeists...
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2014 Software Survey
15 Russell Group Universities
500 researchers from all disciplines
92%
Use software
69%
Software is fundamental
210,000
UK researchers
Percentage of cross-council funding in software-reliant research
Software in publications
65%
31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers
Software is vital to research
...but no one was talking about it
Vital, but hidden
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191,000
outputs submitted
185,000
outputs in publication categories
38
outputs in software category
The way in which the REF exercise is conducted overlooks many of the people who are vital to the success of research.
http://hidden-ref.org
@hiddenREF
Who's writing
the software?
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Online courses and books
Attended a course
No training
29%
46%
50%
25%
0%
25%
What's wrong with being self taught?
Van Gough
Hettrick
POA
$39,921,750
"Professional"
"Beginner"
(n=197)
(n=198)
No career for software developers
Research
Software
Engineering
Researcher
Software
Engineer
Researcher
developer
Research
Software
Engineer
Building a community
of RSEs
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"It's a nice idea, but you won't change anything."
- Anonymous
"Oh come on! How big can this Goliath guy be?"
1428
members
March 2019
UK RSE Association
RSE Conference
https://rsecon2020.society-rse.org
Australia/New Zealand: @rse_aunz
Germany: @RSE_de
Netherlands: @nl_rse
Nordic: @nordic_rse
UK: @ResearchSoftEng
USA: us-rse.org
RSE Groups at
28 organisations
bit.ly/RSEGroupsUK
https://rsg.soton.ac.uk/
http://bit.ly/UKRIRoadmap2019
p.114-126
"Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come"
A new community
in Oceanography?
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Thank you!
@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Licence
© Simon Hettrick
These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Studies and links
- Software survey:
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-09-06-journey-reproducibility-excel-pandas - Grants data analysis:
https://github.com/softwaresaved/software_in_grants_GTR - Publication analysis coming soon
- Southampton Software Survey: https://github.com/Southampton-RSG/soton_software_survey_analysis_2019
- Top ten reasons to be an RSE: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-08-23-ten-reasons-be-research-software-engineer
Picture credits
Where not stated on image:
Big data - Tumisu ,Blockchain - mmi19, Cloud computing - Pete Linforth, Cybersecurity - Darwin Laganzon, DNA - Gerd Altman, IBM PC - Ruben de Rijcke, IOT - jeferrb, Machine Learning - Gordon Johnson, Oxford academics - public domain, Pills in hand - Tom Bullock, Goliath cartoon - Cartoonstock, RSE Conference 2016 photo - Society of Research Software Engineering, UK map - Map data ©2018 Google, Society of RSE logo - Society of RSE
Software, research & Research Software Engineers
By Simon Hettrick
Software, research & Research Software Engineers
A seminar about software and RSEs presented at the National Oceanographic Centre on 21 February 2020.
