By Selina Aragon, Communications Officer, in conversation with Trung Dong Huynh, University of Southampton
By Steve Crouch, Research Software Group Leader, talking with Matt Gerring, Senior Software Developer at Diamond Light Source and Mark Basham, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and Senior Software Scientist at Diamond Light Source.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which we investigate how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
Building a vibrant user and developer community around research software is often a challenge. But…
By Alexander Hay, Policy & Communications Consultant, talking with Eric Rexstad, University of St. Andrews.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which we investigate how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
Abundance is a good thing not just for animals, but also for the researchers studying them. This study is, however, harder than it sounds, which is why it is an area of particular interest for Eric Rexstad, research fellow at the…
By Alexander Hay, the Institute’s Policy & Communications Consultant, talking with Andreas Hegar, CGAT.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which Alexander Hay investigates how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
Life Sciences often suffer from a lack of programming skills. This isn’t always a problem – you don’t need to know how to code in order to gauge the diurnal eating habits of squirrels,…
By Gillian Law, TechLiterate, talking with Lee Margetts, University of Manchester.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which Gillian Law investigates how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
Software development for research into solid mechanics, particularly in High Performance Computing, has fallen behind other research areas such as fluid dynamics and chemistry, argues Lee Margetts, head of Synthetic Environments and Systems…
By Gillian Law, TechLiterate, talking with Prashant Valluri, University of Edinburgh.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which Gillian Law investigates how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
There's a difference between writing code and writing good code, says Prashant Valluri, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Materials and Processes, laughing as he describes how much he learned while working with the Software…
By Gillian Law, TechLiterate, talking with Michael Chappell, University of Oxford.
This article is part of our series: Breaking Software Barriers, in which Gillian Law investigates how our Research Software Group has helped projects improve their research software. If you would like help with your software, let us know.
Sometimes you just have to recognise that you can’t do everything, acknowledge that someone else has more experience and skills than you do, and accept their help.
That’s what Michael Chappell, Associate Professor in Engineering Science at…
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