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Research Software Engineering

The e-Research Department at KCL was created to help enable and facilitate computational- and data-intensive research across the university. A core component of e-Research is supporting research through a Research Software Engineering (RSE) capability.

The RSE team within e-Research supports the development of research software at KCL and its partner institutions. We achieve this through:

  1. direct collaboration with researchers;
  2. embedding experienced Research Software Engineers (RSEs) within new and existing research project teams;
  3. helping to up-skill researchers through our computational skills training;
  4. providing short-term consultancy to those looking for advice on specific questions relating to their research software.

RSE time can be costed into research grants, and a proportion of the assigned RSE's time will be directly allocated to code development for this research project.

The RSE team consists of software engineers with a range of different academic backgrounds and expertise. For more information, see our People page on the KCL website.

The RSE team works closely with our RSE colleagues our RSE colleagues in domain specialist groups across King's, including King's Digital Lab and the Hub for Applied Bioinformatics. We also run regular community events to bring together RSEs and researchers interested in software development from across King's - see our community page for details.