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,...
By Liz Hare with contributions from Anne Lee Steele and Malvika Sharan The Society of Research Software Engineering recently sponsored a Fireside Chat onaccessibility and inclusion as part of The Turing Way‘s June Book Dash. I’m a co-lead of the Accessibility Working Group with The Turing Way, as well as a member of the...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Hello there! My name is Mike, and in September 2023, I was elected to the Society’s Board of Trustees. With the 2024 elections coming up, I wanted to share my experiences from the last year, along with testimonials from other current and former trustees, to help you decide whether getting involved with the Society...
by Mike SimpsonTrustee and co-lead of the Communications and Publicity Working Group As you may be aware, the Society recently transitioned to a new membership platform, to help us and our members to better manage their data and payments. During the transition, we also decided to change how the Society Newsletter and other mailing...