New book features Centre researchers

Centre researchers have contributed to a new book titled ‘Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions’: The Organisations and Collaborations in Big Science Experiments’.

The book explores the organisations and collaborations involved in ‘Big Science’, including the innovation and desgin behind major scientific projects.

It also connects Big Science and its societal impacts from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on physics and astrophysics scholars to explain the reasoning behind their work, and how such knowledge can be applied to everyday life.

Elisabetta Barberio of The University of Melbourne co-wrote a chapter on ‘The Evolution of Astrophysics Towards Big Science: Insights from the Innovation Landscape’.

Geoff Taylor of The University of Melbourne writes about ‘Future of Big Science Projects in Particle Physics- Asian Perspectives’, while Alan Duffy of Swinburne University of Technology addresses ‘The Evolution of Astrophysics Towards Big Science: Insights from the Innovation Landscape,’.

Swinburne’s Christine Thong’s chapter explores ‘Knowledge Diffusion by Design: Transforming Big Science Applications.’

Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions was launched at CERN on June 7 and is available from Oxford University Press. .