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...
Welcome to the June edition of the RSE Society Newsletter. We’ve got some updates from the Society and our working groups, and lots of community updates to get through, so let’s dive in!
By Carlos Cámara-Menoyo The combination of domain knowledge, technical expertise and profound understanding of research makes RSEs a versatile and diverse profile that can contribute in many ways to make research better. Many RSEs are involved in the teaching of methods, technologies or skills (i.e, Digital Research Competencies) needed for research. In a context...
We would like to announce that the seventh round of Society Trustee elections will take place in September 2026. 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 RSECon26 in Sheffield The Society is...
The Society would like to thank our amazing community for their engagement and feedback during the recent consultation on the ethical sponsorship policy. We’ve updated high-level outcomes in our Slack channel: #ethical-sponsorship-policy and announced the outcome at a SocRSE feedback session on the 10th of March. We had a quorate vote, where 62.7% voted...
Authors: Helen Burns and Isabel Fenton Following the very successful Weather and Climate Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at RSECon 2024, the Geoscience special interest group (SIG) was formally set up as part of the Society of Research Software Engineers. In May, the first elections were held, and Helen Burns was elected as...
Join us for the next RSE Leaders & Aspiring Leaders meeting, which will focus on the policy and funding landscape for RSEs. The Society has recently launched a Policy & Funding working group to help the Society better advocate for RSEs with institutions, funders, and policy makers. Attendees will have the opportunity to contribute to the...
This blog post was sent to us by Ruxandra Neatu, Tom Hawes, Kolen Cheung and Jeremy Pike, who were part of the RSE South West meetup at the University of Exeter on 20 Feb 2026. The third RSE South West meeting took place at the University of Exeter, bringing together 52 participants from across...