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Implementation plan for the US Research Software Sustainability Institute
http://plan.urssi.us/
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Clarify RSEs in universities #90

Closed karthik closed 4 years ago

karthik commented 4 years ago

university staff members

Important to note that in the UK and other countries e.g. Netherlands, Germany, this is not just about university staff members. Many RSEs are employed in other research organisations including government research labs, and in research arms of industry.

karthik commented 4 years ago

Since this plan is specific to the US I'll skip this distinction. I rewrote the sentence as

For those outside of traineeships or tenure track positions, the Research Software Engineer (RSE) movement has begun creating a new class of academic positions that explicitly value software work, but such positions are not very common in the United States.

To make the case that while TT faculty don't get credit for software work, there is a new class of workers in academia who are being hired to work on software.