Our partners

The Software Sustainability Institute works with a number of partners to promote, improve and advise on software sustainability.

Founding organisations

The EPCC at the University of Edinburgh

The EPCC is a leading European centre of expertise in advanced research, technology transfer and the provision of supercomputer services to academia and business.

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. It was the fourth university to be established in Scotland and is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, having consistently being placed among leading universities in the world.

The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester

The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is one of the oldest in the UK, and one of the largest. Computer Science Research at Manchester brings together an understanding of foundations, technologies and applications.

The University of Manchester is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. The University of Manchester lists 25 Nobel Laureates among its students and staff, which is the third largest number of any single university in the United Kingdom.

Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton

The Electronics and Computer Science unit provides world-leading education in a world-leading research environment, and it works closely with business and industry to ensure our research finds applications in the real world.

The University of Southampton combines academic excellence with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to research, supporting a culture that engages and challenges students and staff in their pursuit of learning.

Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford

The Oxford e-Research Centre works with research units across the whole of Oxford University to enable the use and development of innovative computational and information technology in multidisciplinary collaborations.

The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and a leader in learning, teaching and research.

Collaborators

Curtis + Cartwright

Curtis+Cartwright is a friendly technology and management consultancy helping public sector organisations make best use of current and emerging Information and Communications Technologies.

National Grid Service (NGS)

The NGS aims to enable coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher location.

Sustainable Software for Audio and Music Research

Sustainable Software for Audio and Music Research aims to support the sustainable development and use of software and data to enable high quality research in the audio and music research community.

Software Carpentry

Since 1997, Software Carpentry has taught scientists and engineers the concepts, skills, and tools they need to use and build software more productively. All of the content is freely available under a Creative Commons license, and we are constantly adding and updating lectures, videos, and exercises.

Digital Social Research

The Digital Social Research strategy is to develop a coherent inter-agency approach to maximise the uptake, use and impact of new digital technologies across the social science community.

Funding organisations

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

The EPSRC are the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing more than £850 million a year.

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

JISC inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies, helping to maintain the UK’s position as a global leader in education.

Project Partners

Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a UK-based, international collaboration of around 100 particle and accelerator physicists. The collaboration is based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and will build a part of a neutrino factory.

TEXTvre

TEXTvre provides researchers with advanced services to process and analyse research texts that are held in formally managed, metadata-rich institutional repositories.

The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is one of the world's leading fusion research laboratories. Our scientists and engineers are working with partners around the globe to develop fusion as a new source of clean energy for tomorrow's power stations.

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists who are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change.

WorldWide Fund for Nature

The Worldwide Fund for Nature (also known as the WWF) believes in a future where people and nature thrive. Best known as the world’s leading conservation body, it has seen first-hand how wildlife, the environment and human activity are all interlinked.

The WWF's passion for safeguarding the natural world has to be backed up by other environmental action – tackling the global threat of climate change and helping people to change the way they live to ease pressure on natural resources. WWF is at the heart of global activities in all these areas. They have teams of highly skilled professionals working with governments, businesses and communities in the UK and around the world.

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

The Science and Technology Facilities Council is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It is a science-driven organisation, which makes it possible for a broad range of scientists to do the highest quality research and tackle some of the most fundamental scientific questions.

University College London (UCL)

UCL is a modern, outward-looking institution, committed to engaging with the major issues of our times. One of the world’s leading multidisciplinary universities, UCL today is a true academic powerhouse.

Clinical Research Facility Edinburgh (CRFE)

The CRFE provides state-of-the-art facilities for investigators undertaking Clinical Research, which includes clinical, laboratory and specialised technical support. The facility operates under a consortium partnership involving the University of Edinburgh and Lothian Health.

There is a common application and administrative process for applications and investigators can apply to use any, or all, of the resources available. Any local clinician researcher (including medical, nurses and AHP’s) can apply to use the facilities.

Heriot Watt

Heriot-Watt University is renowned for its leadership on critical global issues and is recognised throughout the world for the quality of its teaching and applied research capability