Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Challenges Within the Research Software Community

Neil P Chue Hong; Jeremy Cohen; Caroline Jay

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77980-1_30

Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Challenges Within the Research Software Community

Neil P Chue Hong, Jeremy Cohen, Caroline Jay

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Research software – specialist software used to support or undertake research – is of huge importance to researchers and contributes to significant advances in the wider world and requires collaboration between people with diverse skills and backgrounds. Analysis of recent survey data provides evidence for a lack of diversity in the Research Soft- ware Engineer community. We identify interventions which could address challenges in the wider research software community and areas where the community is becoming more diverse. There are also lessons applicable to the wider software development field around recruitment from other disciplines and the importance of welcoming communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Science – ICCS 2021
Publisher	Springer
Pages	390–403
Number of pages	14
Volume	VI
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-77980-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-77979-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77980-1_30
Publication status	Published - 9 Jun 2021
Event	International Conference on Computational Science 2021 - Krakow, Poland Duration: 16 Jun 2021 → 18 Jun 2021 https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2021/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12747
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Computational Science 2021
Abbreviated title	ICCS2021
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Krakow
Period	16/06/21 → 18/06/21
Internet address	https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2021/

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

research software
software engineering
research software engineerin
diversity
EDI

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The UK Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 3
Chue Hong, N.
EPSRC
1/12/18 → 30/11/23
Project: Research

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Chue Hong, NP, Cohen, J & Jay, C 2021, Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Challenges Within the Research Software Community. in Computational Science – ICCS 2021. vol. VI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12747, Springer, pp. 390–403, International Conference on Computational Science 2021, Krakow, Poland, 16/06/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77980-1_30

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The UK Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 3

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