Panel session on RSE careers

[samumantha]

Introduction round All participants: name and current position, "how my daily work relates to RSE" ? maybe we could ask something fun as well here?

[samumantha]

Inspired by Richards email to Keijo: something about recognition of RSE work? something about 'is there an RSE career path'?

[rkdarst]

• What tensions do you experience between academic metrics (number of papers) and your current employment (or future employment)

• What is the biggest win of RSE, that has made some new science possible?

• How would you adjust academic education to help people become RSEs - or even, to balance out science some?

• What do you know now that you wish someone had told you when you began as a researcher.

• Do you think that "RSE" is a good term?

• What points of resistance to RSE careers have you noticed?

• Has anyone ever told you that RSE skills don't matter?

[bast]

• How did you find out about "RSE"?
• When did you realize that you like research (as software engineer) or software engineering (as researcher)?
• How can we reach RSEs who don't know that there are other RSEs?
• What tool/language/method/... are you learning right now or wish you had time to do?

[rantahar]

Something about career stages, compared to postdoc, lecturer, professor

• How would a senior RSE differ from a junior RSE?
• Do you think your title matters for recognizing your skills?
• How can RSE positions can compete with other academic positions? How about industry positions?

[rkdarst]

• What trends in academic funding might lead to more RSEs being needed?
• Do RSEs belong in each group, at the department level, or in university-wide teams? Should they be academic/research positions or service staff positions?

[rantahar]

Closing, this was proposed for the 2020 workshop