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[EVERSE Network training] Strengthen your research by telling its Research Software Story: a narrative approach for better impact
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Description
Why this training webinar
Research Software Stories provide a concise, structured way to capture how your software underpins and enhances your research. Developed within the Research Software Quality Toolkit (RSQKit) - a collaborative knowledge base curated by EVERSE that collects a wealth of research software good practices across different scientific domains.
Research Software Stories help research projects make their impact visible, share effective practices, and plan for sustainable development. This process has potential to strengthen your research by demonstrating how your software contributes to scientific outcomes.
Agenda
This two-hour training session combines short presentations with guided writing. The first hour introduces what Research Software Stories are, why they matter to research, and how they can be structured using the RSQKit template. The second hour is a practical, hands-on exercise where participants draft the basic anatomy of a story for their own project.
Participants may join just for the introductory first hour, if preferred.
Target audience and prerequisites
Research software engineers, data scientists, and researchers involved in developing, managing, or assessing a research software project (such as an analysis tool, prototype, or infrastructure component), and interested in improving collaboration, long-term sustainability, and clear communication of their work to contributors, colleagues, and funders.
Learning objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define the scope and purpose of a Research Software Story for their project;
- Identify the steps and roles involved in creating a Research Software Story;
- Draft a baseline outline for their own Research Software Story using the RSQKit template;
- Recognise how telling their software’s story can make its impact visible and strengthen collaboration.
Trainer
Michael Sparks, Senior Research Software Engineer at University of Manchester | RSQKit editor
Registration
Register to this EVERSE Network training webinar to learn how to create a Research Software Story by appraising the maturity of your software, improving the collaboration within your team, strengthening the reproducibility of your research workflows, and planning for sustainable development.
