Research Software Stories: Four Years of Lessons in Sustainable Science
summary
Four years of collected case studies make a concrete claim: sustained advocacy plus practical incentives moves research software from invisible scripts to funded infrastructure. The program publishes 40 interviews (~10 a year), documents tools and services like ARDC’s Nectar Research Cloud, cites FAIR for Research Software (Nature 2023) as an adoption milestone, and reports policy wins including a new requirement for outputs to be open and citable — NMHRC policy Jan 1 2026 — while noting tools used to prepare materials (Gemini, Copilot) and that awards (Eureka prize category) raised visibility.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Australian Research Data Commons
- 3:40Invisible code to policy
- 7:38Research Software Agenda
- 11:58Changing reward systems
- 16:43Awards for research software
- 20:18Career paths for engineers
- 21:43Digital infrastructure milestones
- 23:07Policy impact on funding
- 24:11Q&A
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