Notes from brainstorming session

[lwjohnst86]

The brainstorming ideas were organized in ~5 items (not all are relevant for this specific project):

• Organisation
• Data
• General conduct
• Support/help
• Onboarding/new comers

Organisation

• Common research staff
• Easy access, central calendar (meetings, Steno Thursdays, PhD defense, courses, conferences, etc)
  • Needs to be accessible to non-RM people
• Overview of groups, people, etc. (not just RM people, e.g. also PhD students)
• List of current projects?
• Vision/strategy/mission?
• Guide to using social media, communications, etc like with Slack, Twitter

Data and Support/help, in prioritized order

1. Data - description (M-lab, Register, DST servers, other cohorts, international data eg Withehall, Addition, DD2 ect) and applications including examples
2. Meetings (zoom, booking rooms, food ect)
3. Money (list of funds, deadlines, examples of successful application, how to get/use internal funds)
4. Analysis (getting help, code reviews, best practices, how to share code, etc)
5. Software (R, redcap, metaanalysis software, python ect)

Other notes:

• Funding/grants, with examples of others applications, sharing experiences etc.
• Legal
• How to run online events, running meetings
• Framework for research projects (SAP, Data application, Analysis etc)
• How to constructively give help
• How to effectively get help

Onboarding/new comers and General conduct

• Guides (part of checklist) like online events, meetings, etc.
• General code of conduct
• Buddy system
• Overall manual
  • Overview of where to look for what:
    • Checklist
    • Flowchart
    • Steno starters?
    • Slack
    • List of stuff (e.g. office supplies)
  • Asking for help, getting help, etc
• Welcome mail to newcomers
• Introduction program
  • Maybe a twice-yearly research meeting to introduce everyone? (Research Retreat was good!)