We are the 92%http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1243288

16 November 2014, WSSSPE2, SC14, New Orleans, USANeil Chue Hong (@npch), Software Sustainability InstituteORCID: 0000-0002-8876-7606 | N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk

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“Today there are very few science areas left which do not rely on IT and thus software for the majority of their research work. More importantly key scientific advances in experimental and observational science would have been impossible without better software.”

Kersten Kleese van DamPacific Northwestern National Laboratory

via change.org campaign

“Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory, and directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and enhancement of researchers' capabilities.”

Dan KatzSI2 Program Director, National Science Foundation

We don’t recognise these hundreds of thousands of researchers because we think they are the long tail……and forget that they are the mainstream and we are the elite minority

Software isn’t specialit’s mainstream

Do you use research software?

What would happen to your research without

software

Survey of researchers from 15 Russell Group unis conducted by SSI between Aug- Oct 2014. 406 respondents covering representative range of funders, discipline and seniority.

This isn’t just about the “traditional” sciences

Survey of researchers from 15 Russell Group unis conducted by SSI between Aug - Oct 2014. 406 respondents covering representative range of funders, discipline and seniority.

And attitudes are changing…

Survey of researchers from 15 Russell Group unis conducted by SSI between Aug - Oct 2014. 406 respondents covering representative range of funders, discipline and seniority.

Overall

… which is changing the situation

Survey of PhD students from Russell Group university conducted by SSI between Aug - Sep 2014.

~100 respondents covering representative range of discipline.

PhD students

Even though a lot is still the same

Survey of 138 University professionals conducted by SSI in Feb-Apr 2013.

The UK research community is just starting to understand the magnitude of the issue

Survey of researchers from 15 Russell Group unis conducted by SSI between Aug - Oct 2014. 406 respondents covering representative range of funders, discipline and seniority.

56%Of UK researchers develop

their own research software

71%Of UK researchers have had no formal

software development training

140,000UK researchers are relying on

their own coding skills

4%Of jobs advertised in UK

universities were software related

If 92% of researchers care about software…

… and WSSSPE is about caring about software …

… what are we going to do to help researchers?

Sustainability

With apologies to Greg Wilson: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2013/10/you-keep-using-that-word.html

We can talk all day about the best ways of achieving sustainability

But what are we going to do to make it actually sustainable?

Career Paths in UKCareers outside academic sector

Non-universityResearch (industry,government etc.)

ProfessorPermanentResearch Staff

Early CareerResearch

PhD

stud

ents

Source: The Scientific Century, Royal Society, 2010 (revised to reflect first stage clarification from “What Do PhD’s Do?” study)

UK STEM graduate

career paths

Who are the people we need to persuade?

What are the incentives we need to put in place?

How are we going to show that the work we present here has benefit to the 92%?

We are all the 92% and we can change the world if we wantMany thanks to Simon Hettrick, Mario Antonioletti, Steve Crouch Alexander Hay and Tim Parkinson who conducted the researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1243288