Welcome to the July edition of the RSE Society Newsletter. We’ve got several updates about RSECon26 as you would expect this close to the conference! There are also some important Society business announcements as well as some updates from our members.
The Society of Research Software Engineering is holding its annual Trustee elections for 2026. In this blog post, we will outline the process and introduce you to the candidates. All valid members at the moment of polling will be emailed instructions to vote, including their personal voting token. Please follow the link in the...
The Trustees and conference committee would like to share some updates on our upcoming annual conference, which will take place in Sheffield in September this year.
RSECon26 will go ahead at The Wave at the University of Sheffield as planned. The trustees and the RSECon26 steering committee have been monitoring the dispute between UCU and the University of Sheffield and weighing our options. This was a difficult and finely balanced decision, and we set out our reasoning below. Hopefully, this...
On Wednesday 3rd September 2025, the Society of Research Software Engineering held our AGM at RSECon25 at the University of Warwick. In this blog post, we summarise the key outcomes of the AGM, namely the standing down and election of members of the board of trustees. We have also included a recording of the...