Big ideas - The aim is to debate some big ideas in the afternoon that we might want to support by the end of the day

[agbarnett]

1. That Australia set-up a James Lind Alliance

[agbarnett]

2. Lobby for funds from the NHMRC to be set-aside for replication studies. Maybe as much as 5% of current project funding.

[agbarnett]

3. Provide greater rewards for transparency, in terms of open protocols, code, data and published papers. This could either be implemented in funding or hiring practices.

[agbarnett]

4. Diversify research funding by either setting aside more money for new and high risk areas, or funding research based on the burden of disease (so moving away from the investigator-driven model).

[agbarnett]

5. Additional funding for statisticians, as per the recent statement after the joint Australian Statistical and Clinical Biostatistics conference.

[VBOz]

With regard to 2 and 3. I was a meeting last week where Justin Withers from ARC said they were surprised there were not more applications for research on open science. I think the LIEF grant was the one they were mostly thinking of - should that be an avenue to explore? We should certainly get someone from the ARC at this

[agbarnett]

6. That we lobby all Australian institutions and pressure them to stop using league tables of research, as these just fuel the "publish or perish" mentality

[agbarnett]

7. Lobby all institutions that conduct research to set aside 0.1% of their budget for research improvement strategies/actions

[softloud]

8. Something that David Corliss from Peace-Work and Logan Graham at Oxford talked about at the big data and social good workshop here at CIRM this week was project management of open science projects. There are many worthy causes, and many willing scientists, particularly ecrs and students, who are interested in collaboration.

As we well know, identifying the question is a significant component of consulting, and is no less true for social good work and building cultures of open science. There was discussion about a need for training of project leaders, so that the administrative load of consulting in open science is more distributed. And so that these leaders can guide working groups towards transparent and reproducible analyses. Could be a big picture question? How to coordinate across institutions? Come to think of it, could be something Stats Soc could help coordinate.

[agbarnett]

9. That a national system of random audits be established that will provide a detailed examination of the quality of a researcher or research group. The idea is that most researchers would improve because of the fear of being audited. Published paper here.

[agbarnett]

10. That Australia copy the UK's foresight scheme where policy makers and academics work together for 12 months on important national issues.

[agbarnett]

Closing this as these were included in the survey