RCD Workforce Survey Data
Data on the demographics, education, and work experience of RCD professionals; their current positions and experience working in the RCD field; and their compensation and job responsibilities.
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RCD Career Arcs Data
People across a range of roles support research computing and data (RCD) services; the community of people in these roles is evolving into a distinct profession, and is widely understood to be an integral part of scholarly research. However, distinct RCD roles are relatively new and it is not obvious to people outside of these roles how their skills and experience map to the RCD profession. This is a serious barrier to recruitment and to the development of a “pipeline” into these roles. In addition, staff currently in RCD roles lack resources to help them grow into new roles and more generally to create a professional development plan; this undermines retention of these skilled professionals. The CaRCC Career Arcs Working Group is developing resources to address these challenges. See:
- PEARC 22 Paper: “Understanding Factors that Influence Research Computing and Data Careers.” Best Full Paper, Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education; and Phil Andrews award, granted to a manuscript deemed to be the most impactful in practice of research computing. (See here if you lack ACM access)
- CaRCC Research Computing and Data Career Arcs 2021 Survey
- Extended data and graphs for the 2022 Career Arcs survey
Research Software Engineers International Survey
Survey of RSEs from around the world. Learn more here.