Reinventing research – Part One: future scenarios and moving away from the publish or perish mantra

Future Tense

• Episode: Reinventing research – Part One: future scenarios and moving away from the publish or perish mantra
• Website: Future Tense
• Feed URL: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/feed/2883726/podcast.xml
• Duration: 00:29:20
• Published: 2020-09-20 02:30

The research community is facing a “crisis of reproducibility”, according to the head of the Center for Open Science, Professor Brian Nosek. He says many of the traditional practices designed to make research robust, actually distort and diminish its effectiveness. In this episode, he details his ideas for reform. We also explore three plausible scenarios for how the academic sector could look in 2030.