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RSECon25 Call for Conference Committee Members

The conference committee is made up of volunteers who give time and effort from October 2024 to September 2025. You don’t have to be an RSE or in the UK to join. You don’t need experience in organising a conference as guidance will be given at all stages. We’re looking for people who are...

International RSE Day – October 10th 2024

On Thursday 10th October 2024, we are celebrating International RSE Day! The International RSE Day is to celebrate Research Software Engineers around the world and raise awareness for the increasingly relevant discipline of Research Software Engineering. The International Council encourages national and local RSE associations to hold regular or special events on this day,...

Society AGM 2024

The 2024 Annual General Meeting of the Society of Research Software Engineering will be held at 17:15 – 18:15 on Wednesday 4th September 2024 in G.41, Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University, UK as part of RSECon24. Purpose The purpose of the AGM is for the trustees to update the Society’s members on what we...

RSE Midlands 2024

by Pip Grylls, University of Warwick The Research Software Engineering (RSE) Midlands 2024 Annual Conference was heldat the University of Warwick on March 7, 2024. Generous support from the Society ofResearch Software Engineering and the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology,based in Warwick’s Department of Statistics, enabled us to welcome over 40 delegatesfrom across...

Trustee Elections 2024 – The Nominees

The nominations for the 2024 RSE Society Trustee elections have now closed. We have two candidates applying to join the board and, as there are five vacancies, there is no need for a competitive election this year. The two candidates will be presented at the AGM, which will take place at RSECon24 in Newcastle...

August 2024 Newsletter

RSECon24 The eighth annual Research Software Engineering Conference (RSECon24) will take place 3rd – 5th September 2024 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UKIn person registration has sold out, but online registration is still open until 23rd of August 2024: https://rsecon24.society-rse.org/registration/ A thank you to our RSECon24 sponsors So far, we gained support from 11 fantastic...

Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School

by Jonathan Blaney, Cambridge Digital Humanities Our Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School (https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/DHRSE-Summer-School-2024/Programme) took place in Edinburgh this July with invaluable funding from the Society of RSE. Twenty-two attendees from Scotland, the rest of the UK, and even further afield, gathered for four days of talks, discussions, workshops and social activities....

Trustee Elections 2024 – FAQs

The 2024 Society Trustee elections are well underway, with nominations still open until Friday 12th July. We have hosted two Zoom Q&A sessions, have fielded questions via the #elections-2024 Slack channel and Social media, and have been talking to RSEs in our teams up and down the country. In this blog post update, with...

Trustee Nominations and Elections 2024

We would like to announce that the sixth round of Society Trustee elections will take place in September 2024. Every year, a number of the current trustees stand down, and a new batch of trustees are elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will take place at RSECon24 in Newcastle. The Society is...