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Join us in person or online for the next College of Information Science colloquium, featuring Allison Fish, associate professor in the Law School and a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
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This talk will provide an overview of the responsible science program housed within the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC). Launched in late 2023, QUBIC is a 7 year interdisciplinary research collaboration that aims to develop paradigm shifting quantum technologies that will enable the observation of biological processes and transform our understanding of the life sciences. An innovative part and parcel of QUBIC's larger goal is the integration of a 'responsible science' program that presently focuses on a defined set of social, legal, and regulatory issues arising at the intersection of quantum and the life sciences. The responsible science program consists of two prongs – targeted research projects and cross-QUBIC research development activities.
Examples of the research projects include:
-The development of responsible innovation frameworks tailored to cross-disciplinary sciences.
-Patent landscapes for specific families of quantum technologies.
-Network analyses of policies affecting the translation of emerging science and technologies.
-Econometric analysis of gender and inventorship and qualitative studies of scientific collaborations.
Our cross-Centre activities consist of:
-Regulatory, policy, and legal literacy training tailored to STEM researchers
-The development of best practice guidelines around the management of research inputs (e.g., access and use of biological samples and materials) and outputs (e.g., inventorship in patents and authorship of articles)
-Models for rethinking research translation and adoption for publicly funded research.
About Allison Fish
Allison Fish is an associate professor in the Law School and a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Trained in law, socio-cultural anthropology, and science and technology studies, a key question that have directed much of Allison's recent work include: What are the legal forms, technological infrastructures, and cultural logics that shape information/knowledge management practices? As Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology, Allison leads the responsible science program. When not investigating the social implications of frontier technoscience, Allison's other research explores the regulation of global markets for South Asian classical systems of medicine.