James Hetherington

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By Mark Stillwell, Cisco Meraki, Caroline Jay, University of Manchester,  Robert Haines, University of Manchester, Louise Brown, University of Nottingham, Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London, Alys Brett, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Shih-Chen Chao, University of Manchester, Raquel Alegre, UCL, James Davenport, University of Bath, and James Hetherington,UCL.

A speed blog from the Collaborations Workshop 2016 (CW16).

Huge progress has been made in recognising research software engineering as a profession since initial discussions about this role began at the…

Research Software Development Team Leader, Research Computing and Facilitating Services, Information Services Division, University College London

Anthony Finkelstein wrote a great post about the benefits of being a software engineer: you can call yourself an engineer without getting your hands dirty, and you can wear jeans and a T-shirt to work (if you feel like being smart). All good points, but it got us thinking, whilst it may be good to be a software engineer, it's even better to be a research software engineer. And here's why.

By James Hetherington, Research Software Development Team Leader at University College London.

At Digital Research 2012, I presented a position paper with colleagues regarding the role of the Research Software Engineer. This paper followed on from a discussion I led at the Collaborations Workshop and some very interesting blog posts by Dirk Gorissen and Ilian Todorov. Rather than repeat these discussions, I've written this post for those who think the Research Software Engineer role could be for them.

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