The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) will pay up to 拢3鈥�000 a year to researchers who use software in their research鈥� to enable them to attend conferences and report back on developments in their field.
The SSI 鈥撀燾omprising the University of Southampton鈥檚 ECS 鈥撀燛lectronics and Computer Science鈥毬爐he myGrid team at the University of Manchester and led by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh – is funded by the UK research councils to help researchers use and develop software for their research.
As part of an initiative designed to better understand the fields that most need the SSI鈥檚 expertise, the Institute is setting up a network of Agents. These Agents (researchers) will receive travelling expenses in return for a short report about the conference attended and views on the topics and software that look most promising in the future.
The benefits are:
鈥� Up to 拢3000 a year to attend conferences and events
鈥� Support for software development in the researchers鈥� fields
鈥� Add world-leading researchers to researchers鈥� professional network
鈥� Free attendance at training events for new tools and technologies
鈥� Improved knowledge of effective techniques for developing sustainable software
鈥� A great addition to researchers鈥� CVs
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to be a professor or a principal investigator,鈥� said Neil Chue Hong, Director of the SSI. 鈥淲e are looking for UK-based researchers with a good knowledge of their field, who are keen to travel and to meet new people, and have experience of national and international collaborations. We are looking for applicants from all disciplines and especially from the fields that have been flagged as strategically important to UK research: the ageing population, environment and climate change, the digital economy, energy and food security.鈥�
After a three-month trial period, Agents will be recruited for an initial term of one year, which is renewable each year.
The closing date is: 8 August 2011. For further information, please visit or email: Agents@software.ac.uk
The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software. Working with projects from all disciplines 鈥� from nuclear fusion to climate change – the SSI provides the expertise and services needed to improve software and increase its growth and adoption. Further information at .