To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, Deputy Director Simon Hettrick chooses 10 pivotal moments from the history of the Institute.
Demonising researchers who publish their code discourages openness, say Neil Chue Hong and Simon Hettrick.
By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director.
How do you choose which categories are needed to represent all possible research outputs? That's the problem we're facing at the Hidden REF. Rather than solve it ourselves, we've handed the problem to the research community who have much more knowledge about the range of new categories we're going to need. In this post, I’m going to take a look at the suggestions people have made over the last couple of months. What do you think about these new categories?
By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, Software Sustainability Institute
A version of this blog post was originally published on Research Professional News
Image by Simon Hettrick
By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director.
“The near-ubiquity of software [in research] means that it is not possible to disentangle the quality of the software from the quality of the research.
By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute
In the weeks running up to the RSE Conference, some colleagues and I will be providing our thoughts on the questions people have submitted for our panel discussion with senior university management about how RSEs are being supported within academia.
By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute.
In the weeks running up to the RSE Conference, myself and some colleagues will be providing our thoughts on the questions people have submitted for our panel discussion with senior university management about how RSEs are being supported within academia. (You can submit more questions and vote on the current questions on Sli.do.)
By Louise Chisholm, Jeremy Cohen, Jonathan Cooper, and Simon Hettrick.
Most people who are looking to forge a career in research software engineering will come across barriers that are the result of outdated university policies put in place before software was such a critical element of research.
By Simon Hettrick, Jeremy Cohen, James Graham, Carina Haupt, Connah McKendrick, David Gillespie
This post is part of the CW19 speed blog posts series.
The number of research software communities is growing rapidly - local communities, regional communities and national communities are all gaining recognition and interest amongst the large number of developers and researchers who write software to support/undertake research. Communities can provide a wide variety of activities to support their members but events offer the main opportunity to meet and interact with other community members.…