Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
By Simon Hettrick
There are 210,000 researchers in the UK and a significant number (at least a third) rely on software to conduct their research. How do we support this huge community with only a few thousand RSEs in the UK? One option is to invest effort into creating local communities that complement the work of RSEs by dealing with the straightforward questions asked by researchers.