The launch of the Software Sustainability Institute's Fellowship programme

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The Fellowship programme will provide UK-based researchers with up to £3000 for travel - and more - in exchange for their expertise and advice. The launch event will kick off with talks from the programme leaders to introduce the Fellows programme, its benefits and the selection process. There will also be the opportunity to hear from past Fellows, who will talk about their experiences.

The Fellowship funding will support activities that are beneficial to both the Fellows and the Institute: funding travel to conferences, setting up and running workshops, organising software sustainability BoFs at domain conferences, or hosting a Software Carpentry bootcamp.

Recruitment will take place during August and September, with the deadline for applications in mid-September. To find out more about the programme, visit the Fellows page (http://bit.ly/ssi-fellows) on the Software Sustainability Institute's website.

Agenda

10.00am -  Introducution to the Software Sustainability Institute - Neil Chue Hong

10.20am -  Institute Case Studies - Steve Crouch

10.40am -  Coffee Break

11.10am -  The Institute's Agents 2011-2012 - Simon Hettrick

11.20am -  Agent experiences: Simon Choppin

11.40am -  Agent experiences: Kristy Revell

12.00pm -  Introduction to the Fellowship programme - Shoaib Sufi

12.20pm -  Panel discussion and Q&A - 'How to do software in research better'

1.00pm -  Lunch

2.00pm -  Introduction to Group activity - Shoaib Sufi

2.10pm -   Group activity  - "Software enhanced research: The good, the bad and the ugly"

3.20pm -  Introduction to after Coffee activity - Shoaib Sufi

3.30pm -  Coffee Break

4.00pm -  Introductions - Communicating your research.

4.45pm -  Concluding remarks and close - Neil Chue Hong