Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Social Computing, Software Engineering
- Keywords
- software, sustainability, fellowship, research software engineer, evaluation, seed corn, credit
- Copyright
- © 2018 Sufi et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26849v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26849v1
Abstract
This paper reports the results of an evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute’s Fellowship Programme, which focused on understanding the benefits that the fellowship has afforded its recipients. The evaluation took the form of a survey open to people awarded fellowships between 2012 and 2016, which asked people to report the effect that the programme had had on them, their institutions, their research domains and their careers. The results show that the fellowship plays a wide-ranging role in supporting communities of best practice and skills transfer, and that a significant benefit is the way it has raised the profile of software in research, and those people who develop and advocate for it.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.