The development of research software engineering as a profession

Dr Joanna Leng at the School of Computing explores Research Software Engineering (RSE) as an emerging profession and how computing technology is core to many professions Research Software Engineering is a young and emerging profession. This article looks at how it compares to other more mature professions and how all these professions handle two factors that are particularly important to the RSE profession, the stability of computing technologies and the adoption of these computing technologies by each profession.