Research Software Engineers

Summary of international session at RSE18

By Ilektra Christidi, UCL and Stephan Druskat, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During the Third RSE conference in September, an international session was held in order to tap into the experiences and ideas of emerging RSE communities and associations around the world. The goal was to hold a more open discussion on the initiatives to be taken to coordinate this activity at an international level, capitalising on the RSE International Leaders workshop earlier this year.

Senior RSE vacancy at Imperial College London

Imperial College London are recruiting a Senior RSE to join the Research Computing Service.

The #RSE18 times

By Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. This year I attended for the first time the third edition of the RSE conference thanks to the support of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship. The conference brings together Research Software Engineers (or RSEs) from across the UK and the world.

Inaugural Edinburgh Research Software Engineers (RSE) Meeting

The inaugural Research Software Engineers (RSE) meeting will take place on Wednesday 26th September 2018, from 13:00–15:00, in room G.03, Bayes Centre, at the University of Edinburgh.

Research Software Engineering conference 2018 #RSE18

By Tim Powell, Research Software Engineer at the STFC Hartree Centre. This post was first published at the STFC Hartree Centre blog. On 3rd September the peaceful campus of Birmingham University came alive with bubbling groups of research software engineers, talking in excited tones about their latest optimisation tool and favourite python library, as the third annual conference of Research Software Engineers was started!

2018 RSE survey: call to participate

The Software Sustainability Institute invites everyone working on research software to fill in the 2018 RSE survey. Previous RSE surveys have targeted specific countries. This year's RSE survey welcomes people from all over the world to participate. The survey takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.

Cloud-first: Rapid webapp deployment using containers

By Mark Woodbridge, Research Software Engineer group lead at Imperial College London.

This is the second in a series of posts describing activities funded by our RSE Cloud Computing Award. We are exploring the use of selected Microsoft Azure services to accelerate the delivery of RSE projects via a cloud-first approach.

RSE18 Conference registration open now

Registration for RSE 2018 in Birmingham in September is now open

The last two conferences sold out, so the organising committee added 50% more tickets this year. However, tickets go fast, so please sign up early.

Report on CW18 mini-workshop: Building effective, sustainable, Research Software communities

By Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London (editor). See Contributors section at the end of the report for full list of contributors

Establishing RSE groups at different levels

By Martin Callaghan, University of Leeds, Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois, Alexander Struck, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, HU-Berlin, and Matt Williams, University of Bristol,

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