The Software Sustainability Institute is looking for volunteers for our next Research Software Camp to mentor beginners who code in academia as part of our Learning to Code mentorship programme. Volunteers will ideally identify as Research Software Engineers, even if that’s not their current job title.

Our spring Research Software Camp: Next steps in coding will focus on improving computational and training skills and exploring existing resources out there. The Camp will be held from 16th to 27th May 2022.

**What to expect**

The Learning to Code mentorship programme will run from 16 May to 22 July 2022. We will hold a Launch event on Monday 16 May 2022, as part of the Research Software Camp: Next Steps in Coding, to introduce the programme, mark the start of the mentorship and pair mentors and mentees according to their language or tools of interest.

We ask mentors to commit to 1 hour every week to walk their mentees through their projects from 16 May to 22 July 2022.

**How your information will be used**

Personal information you supply to us through this form will be used only for the purposes of contacting you to join the Research Software Camp: Next Steps in Coding. Personal information we have collected through this survey will be kept for at least 1 year so we can contact you in the future about volunteering opportunities at the Research Software Camps. You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you and ask us to correct or remove information which is incorrect, please email info@software.ac.uk.

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