This week we’re introducing Heather Turner from the University of Warwick! Read about her background and fellowship plans here. Heather Turner – Increasing Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) in the R Project I have spent my career developing code and software for researchers, primarily in the social and life sciences; first in...
The third election of trustees of the Society of Research Software Engineering will be taking place this September, along with our Annual General Meeting (AGM). Nominations are open from now (Monday 2nd August) until midnight at the end of Monday 23rd August.
Introducing Ed Bennett from Swansea University! Read about his background and fellowship plans here. Ed Bennett – Supporting reproducibility in STFC science Hi! I’m Ed Bennett, and unlike the authors of the other blog entries in this series, rather than EPSRC, I’ve just become the first RSE Fellow to be funded by STFC. STFC...
Introducing James Knight from the University of Sussex! Read about his background and fellowship plans here. James Knight I originally trained as an electronic engineer but, after spending a large proportion of a summer internship ‘debugging’ a circuit using an oscilloscope, I quickly realised my strengths lay in a field where hand-eye-coordination was less...
Introducing Andrew Brown from Queen’s University Belfast! Here is a blogpost from Andrew about his fellowship plans. Bringing Research Software Engineering to Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics I got tired of feeling like an imposter in computational physics, so I switched to Research Software Engineering so I had a whole new field in which...
Author: Dave Horsfall There is a huge stigma associated with mental health. Just 13% of employees would be comfortable talking about mental illness at work, but stress, anxiety and depression are particularly common - with one in six workers experiencing one at any one time. The fear of speaking up prevents people from asking for help,...
Author: Teri Forey Software is integral to research, yet those whose job it is to create and maintain that software can come from a variety of places and can follow very different career paths. As the Society of Research Software Engineering our aim is to form an inclusive and diverse community, which represents and...
Authors: Marion Weinzierl, Teri Forey The international Series of Online Research Software Events (SORSE) was launched on September 2, 2020, and closed in a big finale event on March 24, 2021. It had been initiated to replace all the cancelled national Research Software Engineering (RSE) conferences and events, and was organised by members of...
There can be little doubt of the reliance of research on “research software”. Surveys conducted by the SSI have provided evidence to clearly demonstrate this, which has helped to motivate the RSE movement. The growth of the Research Software Engineering (RSE) community is an indication of the growing number of people who facilitate research...
Summary The RSE society is able to provide financial support for events and initiatives which support our mission statement and charitable objectives (see our constitution section). In summary the objectives of the RSE society are: If your event matches our objectives then you are welcome to apply to our events fund! Budget and Scope...