I’m a researcher based in Australia and have some experience working with open/meta science. Happy to talk this through with you if helpful, precommitting to not take any of your money.
Quick answers, most of which are not one off, donation target ideas but instead would require a fair amount of setup and maintenance.
$250,000 would be enough to support a program for disseminating open / meta science practices in Australian graduate students (within a broad discipline), if you had a trusted person to administrate it.
you could have a prize for best open access paper published by a non PhD
you could fund a conference such as AIMOS https://aimos.community/ (I have no affiliation and no knowledge of how effective this is)
you could ask the Centre for open science people how to effectively spend the money
I joined a few sessions at the AIMOS (Association for Interdisciplinary Metascience and Open Science) conference a few weeks ago. It was great and I wrote up some notes about the talks I caught here. That said, beyond hosting their annual conference, I’m not really sure what other plans AIMOS has. If it’s of interest I can put the OP in touch with the incoming 2021 president (Jason Chin from USyd Law School) to talk further.
Otherwise, many of the speakers were from Australia and you might find other ideas for local donation recipients on the AIMOS program. Paul Glasziou from Bond Uni mentioned something in his plenary that stood out to me—inefficient ethical reviews can be a huge source of wasted research time and money (to the tune of $160 million per annum in Australia) - if that’s of interest he may be able to suggest a way to spend the money to push for ethical review reforms in Australia.
Gavin, all your comments have been very helpful and I am following up many of them. It would probably be useful to me to at least send Jason an email as he may have an opinion, so putting me in touch with him would be very helpful, thank you.
I’m a researcher based in Australia and have some experience working with open/meta science. Happy to talk this through with you if helpful, precommitting to not take any of your money.
Quick answers, most of which are not one off, donation target ideas but instead would require a fair amount of setup and maintenance.
$250,000 would be enough to support a program for disseminating open / meta science practices in Australian graduate students (within a broad discipline), if you had a trusted person to administrate it.
you could have a prize for best open access paper published by a non PhD
you could fund a conference such as AIMOS https://aimos.community/ (I have no affiliation and no knowledge of how effective this is)
you could ask the Centre for open science people how to effectively spend the money
I joined a few sessions at the AIMOS (Association for Interdisciplinary Metascience and Open Science) conference a few weeks ago. It was great and I wrote up some notes about the talks I caught here. That said, beyond hosting their annual conference, I’m not really sure what other plans AIMOS has. If it’s of interest I can put the OP in touch with the incoming 2021 president (Jason Chin from USyd Law School) to talk further.
Otherwise, many of the speakers were from Australia and you might find other ideas for local donation recipients on the AIMOS program. Paul Glasziou from Bond Uni mentioned something in his plenary that stood out to me—inefficient ethical reviews can be a huge source of wasted research time and money (to the tune of $160 million per annum in Australia) - if that’s of interest he may be able to suggest a way to spend the money to push for ethical review reforms in Australia.
Gavin, all your comments have been very helpful and I am following up many of them. It would probably be useful to me to at least send Jason an email as he may have an opinion, so putting me in touch with him would be very helpful, thank you.