The Society of Research Software Engineering has a mission to “advance the practice of research software engineering for the public benefit in such ways as the charity trustees consider appropriate.” Over our first year the society has established a sound membership base and continues to serve the Research Software Engineering (RSE) community by providing...
The second election of trustees of the Society of Research Software Engineering will be taking place this Autumn. Nominations are open from now (see below) until midnight at the end of Tuesday 1st September, with members voting in September over a period of three weeks. Results will be announced in early October as the...
“I love podcasts! They can be a great medium to learn about new ideas, get entertained and listen to great stories. And since the work of research software engineers takes us to so many different areas of exiting research I thought it might be a good idea to have a podcast for and from...
One positive outcome from the controversy around the modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic is that many more people are aware that the reliability of research results is inexorably linked to the reliability of the software used to generate them. Ultimately, if we value reliable research, we must value reliable research software – and this...
A major modelling consortium The Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium (SCRC) is a major consortium under the Royal Society’s RAMP scheme as part of the national COVID-19 response. It was initiated by scientists from three institutions in Scotland: the Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health at the University of Glasgow, the Scottish Government’s...
This post was compiled by Mark Woodbridge, Jeremy Cohen and Tony Yang of the Imperial College Research Software Community. We are re-publishing an updated version of the original article modified by the authors for a more general audience. Content not accessible to readers outside their local community has been removed or replaced appropriately. A...
The Trustees of the Society of Research Software Engineering and the Conference Steering Group have taken the very difficult decision to cancel the annual RSE Conference for 2020. We know that this conference is a fantastic social, networking and skills training event for the RSE community worldwide so we’d like to reassure everyone that...
On Thursday 6th February 2020, nearly 100 researchers, RSEs, software engineers, funder representatives and others with an interest in research software gathered at the Royal Society in London for RSLondonSouthEast 2020.
By Dr Marion Weinzierl, Research Software Engineer at Durham University Join the discussion on the UK RSE Slack. Question: “I have just come out of a meeting with a professor and his postdoc in which we discussed how I could help them with improving the robustness of their code, error handling, and introduce automated...
The new website for RSECon2020 is up and running! The conference for RSEs from around the world is in its fifth year and going strong… RSECon2020 will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK from the 8th to the 10th September. RSECon had its inaugural conference in 2016 with 120 delegates from 12...