Articles, Guides and Blog Posts

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RSE Careers

• Research Software Engineers: Creating a Career Path—and a Career - a career guide for RSEs released by the IEEE Computer Society in collaboration with US-RSE.

• Van Tuyl, Steve (Ed.), Hiring, Managing, and Retaining Data Scientists and Research Software Engineers in Academia: A Career Guidebook from ADSA and US-RSE. 2023. Zenodo.

RSE Skills and Competencies

• F. Goth, et al. Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer. 2023. arXiv.

RSE Structures and Background

General

• S. Hettrick. A not-so-brief history of Research Software Engineers. Software Sustainability Institute blog, Aug 2016.

• J. Cohen, D. S. Katz, M. Barker, N. Chue Hong, R. Haines and C. Jay, “The Four Pillars of Research Software Engineering”, in IEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 97-105, Jan.-Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/MS.2020.2973362. (preprint)

RSE Group Structures

• D. S. Katz, K. McHenry, C. Reinking and R. Haines. Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies from Manchester’s RSDS Group, Illinois’ NCSA, and Notre Dame’s CRC. 2019 IEEE/ACM 14th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (SE4Science), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 17-24, doi: 10.1109/SE4Science.2019.00009. (preprint)

• I. Cosden. The Princeton University Research Software Engineering Group Model: Operational and Organizational Approaches, in Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 24, no. 05, pp. 24-31, 2022. doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2023.3264113. (preprint)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the RSE Community

• E.A. Jensen and D.S. Katz. Diversity and inclusion in research software: Insights from an international workshop. US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI), October 2023.

• N.P. Chue Hong, J. Cohen and C. Jay. Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Challenges Within the Research Software Community. In: M. Paszynski et al. (eds), Computational Science – ICCS 2021. ICCS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12747. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77980-1_30. (preprint)

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