Introduction to the Software Sustainability Institute

Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute Director, and Mario Antonioletti, Research Software Engineer, will give an overview of the important role that software plays in research and innovation and describe some of the Instituteʼs activities around the research software community in the UK and in Edinburgh. In particular, Neil & Mario will present different opportunities to collaborate with the Software Sustainability Institute and connect you to a wider research software community.

The Software Sustainability Institute [www.software.ac.uk] is based at the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton, and draws on a team of experts with a breadth of experience in software development, project and programme management, research facilitation, publicity and community engagement.

Some of the most recentcommunity activities in Edinburgh include the Edinburgh Research Software Engineering Community meetings (CERSE) [github.com] and Edinburgh Carpentries (EdCarp) [edcarp.github.io] software engineering and data analysis training workshops.