Software Engineering Researchers (SERs) and Research Software Engineers (RSEs) can potentially benefit from each other: SERs can provide RSEs with state-of-the-art research knowledge, methods and tools from software engineering that can help create better software for better research. RSEs can help SERs understand the specific challenges they face in research software engineering, and thus...
With the role of the Research Software Engineer in the academic landscape now better defined, it is time to ask the question to a broader audience of how can we adapt traditional Software Engineering practices to most effectively fit the needs of the research community. What differentiates researchers who write code from RSEs? How do their aims, drivers and motivations differ and how does this...
