How do you motivate researchers to adopt better software practices?

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 How do you motivate researchers to adopt better software practices? - DSR10-CW2CC Reporter Patrick McCann - pgm5@st-andrews.ac.uk Participants Rachael Ainsworth, Jason M. Gates (jmgate@sandia.gov), Jakob S. Jørgensen, Diego Alonso-Álvarez, Cerys Lewis Notes from the discussion Please use the area below to capture notes from the discussion session. How to get people out of bad habits, create good habits. “Reproducibility is like brushing your teeth”...

7 min · 1409 words · Rachael Ainsworth, Jason M. Gates, Jakob S. Jørgensen, Diego Alonso-Álvarez, Cerys Lewis

RSE Careers

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 collab_ideas_group_5 - CI10-CW2CC Reporter Sarah Gibson - sgibson@turing.ac.uk Participants Jason M. Gates, Joanna Leng, Catherine Smith, Sarah Gibson, Colin Sauze, Alexander Konovalov Context / Research Domain RSE Careers Problem HERA (Higher Education Role Analysis) is a tool which is used to analyse roles found in Higher Education institutions (see http://www.ecc.ac.uk/about-us/ for further information). They were written about 15 years ago. While there were subsequent changes to REF procedures, and RSEs did not exist at the point they were written, the descriptions stay the same....

2 min · 221 words · Jason M. Gates, Joanna Leng, Catherine Smith, Sarah Gibson, Colin Sauze, Alexander Konovalov