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