# Working Group: Funding & Sustainability ## Notes - Various strands to TREs: data partner - technology / infrastructure side - data curation itself, information governance - Sustaining the future of the 'TRE' workforce itself - career progressions/frameworks/training - Very specialised work - Any staff churn is very damaging to hive knowledge/capability - Hard to recruit and retain - Cohesion at UKRI (really across councils) level is really needed - Using RSE Con as an example: came about to (1) reduce the brain drain in the RSE space and (2) - How does funding work today? - So many models today and horrible to work with. - What could it look like? - Define challenge and difficulty - Health, admin, etc. all fund/operate in different ways - 80% FEC is difficult for non-academic roles - What is the role of TREs in teaching new methods/techiques? - How do we bring information governance knowledge up to date with software/infra/data techniques in order to provide appropriate audit? (training challenge) - Roadmap between current state and goal. - Who is funding different challenges? - How are these coordinated? - Articulate risks and issues - What is the direction of the community? - Should it be it's own society? - Should it be part of RSE soc? - How do we represent very different skills without needing to join _yet another org_