VIRTUAL EVENT: Knowledge network or hegemonic hierarchy? Dynamism and power in global science

Networked global science is expanding at such a rapid rate that some argue that shared global activity is now more determining of science. 

Yet most analysis of global science focuses on comparisons and competition between countries, ignoring the fact of widespread cooperation at the global level.

In this webinar, Simon Marginson will discuss the four observed tendencies in world science:

• rapid growth in the volume of published science
• expansion in the number of countries with scientific capacity so that science is no longer dominated by the traditional duopoly of United States/Western Europe and Japan
• rapid growth in international collaboration
• diversification of the group of leading research countries, so that power in science is becoming more plural. 

He will touch upon what lies behind these tendencies and what they might imply for the nature of knowledge, for relations of power in science, and for the potential for science to pursue the global common good. 

Speaker

• Simon Marginson, University of Oxford

Links

• Centre for Global Higher Education
• Education, Practice and Society

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