Results of Software Sustainability Institute Survey

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Software Sustainability Institute's recent survey of researchers at top UK universities is out. Headlines figure are:

• 92% of academics use research software
• 69% say that their research would not be practical without it
• 56% develop their own software (worryingly, 21% have no training in software development)
• 70% of male researchers develop their own software, and only 30% of female researchers do

For the full story, see this post on their blog.