Scientific collaboration - past, present and future.
The Royal Society seeks help with planning a publication on scientific collaboration and is inviting contributions from
academics in science studies & history of science.
The Royal Society intends to compile a small collection of case studies of scientific collaboration, as part of its work
on the future culture of science. (See
https://royalsociety.org/topic s-policy/projects/research- culture/).
The
collection will cover a range of topics, and scales of project, to
illuminate the conditions - institutional, cultural,
political, intellectual - that enable or constrain successful
collaboration. Potential case studies, and the questions one might ask
about them to illuminate discussion of future science policy, will be
discussed at a workshop at the Society in October.
We
would welcome suggestions for stories of collaboration that might be
informative in this regard. Ideally, they will
be stories which are already documented, or would be relatively
straightforward to document, and which someone (perhaps you?) might
envisage writing up in an easily accessible style in a few thousand
words.
The
plan is that the majority, perhaps all, the authors in the publication
that appears next year will be scholars in
history of science and science studies. A small number (between 5-10)
of paid writing commissions will follow the October workshop. The
collection will be edited for the Society and summarised by Dr Jon
Turney (www.jonturney.co.uk).