Fellow Detail

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Name Mike Simpson
Affiliation Newcastle University
Department RSE Team
Research area code (I3) Software engineering
Fellowship Inauguration Year 2025
Institutional Website https://rse.ncldata.dev/team/mike-simpson
Website https://mdsimpson.co.uk/
ORCID 0000-0002-8056-8303
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=XMnRuhMAAAAJ
GitHub mdsimpson42
LinkedIn mdsimpson42
Interests

Writing, storytelling, photography, video games, digital artwork, mental health.

Short Biography

I am a Research Software Engineer at Newcastle University, with a background in game development and data visualisation. Currently, I'm a Trustee and Vice-President of the RSE Society, having previously been on the organising committee for the RSE Conference in 2022 and 2023.

My aim for the fellowship is to continue the conversation around mental health in our community and to try and provide RSEs - and others working in similar fields - with information to support self-care and life-work balance, as well as access to events, initiatives and resources that help individuals support their own mental health, and for managers to support the mental health of their teams. I've talked/written about mental health a few times, not least in a series of blog posts on my website about how I became a father for the first time during lockdown in 2020.

Previous events

Title Start date End date
Mental Health First Aider Training Tuesday, 11 March 2025 Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Blog Posts

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