RSE Capacity Enhancement Project

Practical guidance and patterns for research software engineering in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous research contexts.

About the project

The RSE CEP is an ARDC partnership with the HASS Digital Research Hub, ANU. We develop skills, resources, and infrastructure that support high-quality research software practice across HASS and Indigenous research communities.

The HASS and Indigenous research community faces a shortage of Research Software Engineering expertise, leading to fragmented development practices and inconsistent maturity across disciplines. Researchers and technical teams lack access to architectural guidance, recommended patterns, and technical roadmaps — producing inefficiencies, increased cybersecurity risk, and software that is difficult to sustain beyond individual projects. As AI and Large Language Models become increasingly relevant, the need for coordinated, sector-wide RSE capability is more pressing than ever.

Our patterns library captures proven solutions to recurring engineering challenges from data governance and Indigenous data sovereignty to software architecture and research workflows.

Learn more about the project on the ARDC website.