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 Simpson – Trustee 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...
On Wednesday the 6th of September 2023, the Society of Research Software Engineering held our AGM at RSECon23 in Swansea. Four of the trustees stood down: And the membership elected seven new trustees: The full video of the meeting along with the slides are available below:we
Hi everyone. Mike here from the Society’s Conference and Events team. In the interest of transparency, I wanted to let you know what’s going on with regard to RSECon25 (and our plans for future RSE Conferences). We want to create a better procedure for applying to be the Programme Chair (or Co-Chairs) for future...
by The Hidden REF Committee* This blog post has been written by the organisers of the event, which was supported by the Society’s Events and Initiatives Grant. For more info, or to apply for a grant to support your event, click here. The key aims of the Festival of Hidden REF were to grow...
Introduction After the successful HPC and RSE workshop “Excalibur RSEs meet HPC Champions” which ran as a satellite event on the Friday after RSECon22 in Newcastle, the organisers decided to run a similar event this year. The idea was to integrate a 1-2h Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session into RSECon23 in Swansea, rather than having a satellite...
The Trustees would like to inform our members about upcoming changes to the way that we manage your membership of the Society. Since the Society was founded, we have been using White Fuse as our membership platform. However, as the Society has grown and our needs have changed, we have decided that White Fuse...
by Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London The research software community has been undertaking a range of activities over recent years to try and address a lack of diversity within our field, and to ensure that we develop an open, accessible and diverse environment that anyone interested in research software can engage with and benefit...
On 2 November 2023, the Society hosted a webinar to discuss our plans for the annual RSE Conference. RSECon24 Co-Chairs Katie Finch and Dave Horsfall hosted the meeting, along with the conference steering group and previous committee members. In this meeting, we discussed the goals for the 2024 conference, the committee roles and answered...
The Society of Research Software Engineering is holding its annual Trustee elections for 2023. All valid members at the moment of polling opening will be emailed detailed instructions to vote and their personal voting token. Voting will close 10:00am BST, Tuesday 5 September. Candidate statements We thank every candidate, seconder and scrutineer for their...