Research Software Engineering at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
UKCEH RSE group
We are the RSE group within Environmental Data Science at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
There are already quite a few folks in Research Software Engineer roles across UKCEH, embedded with specific projects or research groups. Ours is the organisation’s first attempt to create a central group that really take responsbility for skills development and building a “community of practise” across the organisation, as well as engaging in technical work.
We’re trying to do a lot of our communication in public via Github Discussions and set up an experimental Github Organisation in order to hold those, plus talk material, templates, smaller or prototype status projects, and work-in-progress guidelines that we’d like to spread round the organisation.
We’re also trying to (re)build a practise of regular weeknotes to help our wider research community stay informed and engaged with what we’re up to as a team and as part of the much larger Environmental Data Science Group.