Software Sustainability Institute
The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software based in the UK and founded in 2010. The Institute is based at the University of Edinburgh with sites at the University of Manchester, and the University of Southampton. The University of Oxford was a partner site from 2010-2024.
Organisation
It is an academic institute run for the benefit of researchers and software developers, and funded initially with over £4 million from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Further funding was provided in 2015 by EPSRC, ESRC and BBSRC,in 2018 by all seven UK research councils, and in 2024 by the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure programme,
with additional project funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee and Natural Environment Research Council.
The principal investigator of the project is Neil Chue Hong with support from co-investigators Simon Hettrick, Caroline Jay and Selina Aragon.
Previous Co-Investigators include Malcolm Atkinson, Les Carr, David De Roure, Carole Goble, and Mark Parsons.