Research Software Engineering support with Netherlands eScience Center

About this episode

The episode discusses the role of Research Software Engineering in supporting social science research with insights from experts at the Netherlands eScience Center.

In this episode, we talk with Flavio Hafner and Malte Luken from the eScience Center about how Research Software Engineering supports social science research. They discuss what RSEs do, how computational tools can transform projects, and how they help make research reproducible and sustainable. Flavio and Malte also share examples from real-world social science projects, explain the collaboration between RSEs and researchers, and explore the future opportunities for software-driven social research. Affiliations: Flavio Hafner – Research Software Engineer at the Netherlands eScience Center . He works at the intersection of applied statistics, machine learning and social sciences Malte Lüken – Research Software Engineer at the Netherlands eScience Center . Malte is experienced in writing, evaluating and optimizing computational models in the domain of social sciences. Dr. Tom Emery – Executive Director of ODISSEI , the Dutch National Infrastructure for Social Science; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University, Rotterdam Useful links: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/

People in this episode

Host: Tom Emery

Guests: Flavio Hafner, Malte Lüken, Dr Tom Emery

Topics covered

• Research Software Engineering
• social science research
• computational tools
• reproducibility
• sustainability

Keywords

• eScience Center
• applied statistics
• machine learning
• computational models

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Research Software Engineering, computational tools

Places: Rotterdam

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