Posted by s.hettrick on 23 July 2014 - 2:02pm

Research Fortnight have written a feature on the Research Software Engineer campaign.

"What do you call a postdoc who doesn’t write papers? A coder, most likely.

As research has come to rely increasingly on software for data collection, organisation and analysis, some postdocs have found themselves focusing on writing software. Many call themselves research software engineers, producing crucial code, and there are now enough of these for them to have started making demands—that universities and funders invent a way of recognising and measuring their contribution to research, and for the software they write to be used beyond a single project."

Read the article on the Research Fortnight website.