69. International Scientific Collaborations: New knowledge infrastructures
Simcha Jong, Leiden University; Richelle Boone, Leiden University
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
International scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in efforts to address global challenges. This gives rise to numerous questions about the structures of international scientific collaborations, and about how these are changing scientific work.
Which forms of international scientific collaboration can we for instance identify? And how are these collaborations situated within the broader context of scientific endeavour? What do we know about the social, organizational and political dynamics of international scientific collaborations? What kind of stakeholders are for example involved in these collaborations? And which organisational frameworks do they for instance employ to deal with specific coordination challenges tied to international scientific collaboration? What are scientists’ practical experiences with international scientific collaboration? And how do these relate to underlying knowledge infrastructures?
How could the social, organizational and political dynamics of international scientific collaboration be studied best? Which methods should be employed? Last but not least: what might be ideas to improve knowledge infrastructures and international scientific collaboration? And what could and/or should be the role of STS scholars in a process of designing knowledge infrastructures and/or facilitating international scientific collaboration?
