On the path to better sustainability for research software

1 March 2023 - SIAM '23        @sjh5000     ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

Simon Hettrick

www.software.ac.uk

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/

Marathon, not a sprint

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 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Slides

https://bit.ly/3n8np2r

Image licences

  • Cleanroom - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/DsC24AEuYjc
  • Sunflowers - Gandalf's Gallery - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/8993664971
  • AI - www.vpnsrus.com CC BY 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/152824664@N07/30188200627
  • Change is coming - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/-iOE0qBkioc
  • Fellowship - University of Edinburgh on behalf of Software Sustainability Institute CC BY-NC 2.5
  • Carpentries - bebatut CC BY-SA 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/134305289@N03/42464629032/in/album-72157667641880727/
  • RSEs - by permission of Society of RSE
  • Hidden REF - CC-BY
  • Britons! - Public domain - https://loc.getarchive.net/media/britons-your-country-needs-you-printed-by-saunders-and-cullingham-2-and-3-burgon
  • Dawn - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/Go02ECyCkfc

Research software is any software that is used to generate, process or analyse results that you intend to appear in a publication.

 

It can be anything from a few lines of code written by yourself, to a professionally developed software package.

On the path to better sustainability for research software

By Simon Hettrick

On the path to better sustainability for research software

This presentation on sustainability was written for SIAM 23 and should have been presented by me. However, an illness prevented me from flying and the presentation was given by Dan Katz (thank you Dan!).

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