[EN] Championing Research Software Part 1: Champions at Imperial College London

Meet 6 of the research software champions at Imperial College London (UK) who help to create better research - through better software: Alan Xavier, Lukas Kopecky, Jakub Lala, Benjamin Scharpf, Sara Patti and Sneha Jha. 

Links

• https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/call-for-rs-champions-2024/ The call for the 2024 champion scheme cohort
• https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/rs-community-newsletters/2024-03.html The newsletter announcing the championship
• https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/ The RSE group at Imperial College
• https://www.ukri.org/news/new-funding-to-support-research-technical-professionals/ UKRI initiative to nurture research technical professionals
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14703297.2023.2237943#abstract An article about the size of doctoral programmes at UK academic institutions in the year 2020-2021

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Chapters

• 4:05 Introducing the Champions
• 11:08 Software In Research
• 16:31 How to champion Part 1
• 26:27 How to champion Part 2
• 32:40 Outcomes and benefits