Careers, Organizations, Collaborations.

Marginal Notes on Reading Daryl E. Chubin's Redaing Science, Organizations, Essential Tensions. Cultural Studies in the Third Millennium, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2020

Abstract

Daryl E. Chubin's book Science. Organizations and Careers. Essential Tensions, discussed in the context of the debate on scientific cooperation, provides a complementary voice in understanding this broad  topic. In the form of personal memoir, the author reflects on his own  career as a scientist and later his political career in Washington (Beltway) adinistration and science NGOs. As a witness to history, he draws attention to the transformations undergone by both reflection on science within the social sciences and in the minds of policymakers determining its funding at the federal level, and in the changing priorities of NGOs supporting students and young researchers at the threshold of their scientific career. Individual chapters are devoted to various aspects of scientific careers, e.g. functional considerations in institutional structures, successive career stage, teamwork (various forms of inter-, trans-, multidisciplinary), and institutional inclusivity during studies and research work.

Autobiographical reflections like this one, can not only allow Polish readers to get acquainted with changes in the field of science, technology, research and development in the American context (in the world context), but also encourage reflection on analogous transformations, which, are taking place in European countries, with particular attention to Polish (semi-)peripherality.