{"id":6347,"date":"2017-04-10T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:40:43","slug":"research-software-engineering-state-of-the-nation-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6347","title":{"rendered":"Research Software Engineering: State of the Nation 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I am a co-investigator on an EPSRC-funded grant called the <a href=\"http:\/\/gow.epsrc.ac.uk\/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP\/N028902\/1\">RSE-N (Research Software Engineering Network)<\/a>, the aim of which is to co-ordinate various Research Software Engineering activities nationally. \u00a0One of the outputs of this work is a &#8216;State of the Nation&#8217; report which discusses the current state of the national community along with some of its history and the reasons why the concept of &#8216;Research Software Engineer&#8217; was created back in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It covers everything that&#8217;s happened since the community began. If you want to know more about RSEs, then the report is a good place to start. If you&#8217;re making a case for supporting RSEs at your local institution, we hope the report will provide some of the evidence you need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you are interested in the RSE movement, I encourage you to read it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/495360#.WOt5fFMrJE4\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/495360#.WOt5fFMrJE4<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a co-investigator on an EPSRC-funded grant called the RSE-N (Research Software Engineering Network), the aim of which is to co-ordinate various Research Software Engineering activities nationally. \u00a0One of the outputs of this work is a &#8216;State of the Nation&#8217; report which discusses the current state of the national community along with some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1En","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}