Collaboration

Government data and engagement Translational outcomes and impact Shared services

The imperative for collaboration

Scientific collaborationscourtesy of Olivier H. Beauchesne

Why?Intersect is deploying infrastructure and services nationally and internationally.

Why? the collaboration imperative the tyranny of distance

Coordination “The coordination of the various institutes in NSW, and with the NSW Government, has been of critical importance. We can coordinate our research effort and speak with one voice on the national stage.”

Professor Les Field, DVC(R), UNSW

Partnership of Lowy Institute and Intersect earned the Big Data Big Impact award at the 2013 Premier’s Awards for

Outstanding Cancer Research

Connection“The strength of Intersect, for us, is their connection across the system. That gives us access to a network of people who really can ensure we are at the cutting edge of key areas”.

 

Prof David Currow, CEO Cancer Institute of NSW

Intersect and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (+others) earned the 2013 CitySwitch Green Office Awards for national

leadership in energy-efficiency

HDS Health and Life Sciences Innovation Award

“Intersect Australia is improving the availability, accessibility and reuse of data, images and datasets…to expand the scale and scope of the research that Australian scientists are seeking to address”.

Prof Johanna Westbrook awarded the NSW iAwards ICT Professional of the Year 2014. We work with Professor Westbrook on WOMBAT and

POSSUM

Partnered with NSW Department of Finance and Services on the Sharing Government Data Forum, April 2013

Partnered with NSW Department of Finance and Services and Sax Institute on Open Data forum, data linkage workshop,

November 2013.

Biobanking Needs Analysis

Intersect has delivered recommendations on streamlining biobank digital imaging systems for the Cancer Institute NSW sponsored Biobanking Stakeholders Network (BSN)

Image courtesy of A/Prof Daniel Catchpoole, Children’s Hospital at Westmead Paediatric Tumour Bank.

“Before Intersect …we were dealing with these things one by one… we are now able to deal with much larger problems and deal with things like the large storage of data, which everybody struggles with”.

 

Professor Les Field, DVC(R), University of New South Wales

Collaboration

eResearch Providers: National Services

NCRIS Infrastructure Partners and Research Facilities

Delivering national services in partnership with state and national eResearch providers through

AeRO

Supporting research collaborations through secure access via AAF to data stores

Projects with high-quality operational research infrastructure (NCRIS)

facilities

Intersect staff located in Sydney

and Canberra to work with ANDS and

RDSI

Intersect eResearch Analysts embedded

in universities across NSW and the

ACT to work with our members

Building capability and peer support

networks through coordinating

roundtables and workshops