I’m delighted to have been named today as one of the sixteen Software Sustainability Institute Fellows for 2014.
The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) is an EPSRC-funded project 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. It’s a national facility for cultivating world-class research through software, whose goal is to make it easier to rely on software as a foundation of research; see their manifesto. The SSI works with researchers, developers, funders and infrastructure providers to identify the key issues and best practice surrounding scientific software.
During my fellowship, I’m particularly keen to work closely with Software Carpentry and Mozilla Science Lab to highlight the importance of software skills across the STEM disciplines. I’m also interested in a broader open science/open computation agenda; see the Recomputation Manifesto and the recently established recomputation.org project.
More to follow in 2014!
Digital, Data & Policy 
Congratulations! Some of these guys sit upstairs from me. Come say hi if you’re ever visiting Southampton 🙂
Cheers Rikki, will do!
Promoting better software for research is important, even in the gym… (HT @DrRichNeil)