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Publications

The following is a list CPAS publications for the last 10 years. For older publications please visit the archive page.

2013

Books

  • Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). (2013). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge.

Book chapters

  • Bryant, C. (2013). Science Communication: The Consequences of Being Human. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 273-289.  
  • Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (2013). Preface: The Changing Face of Science Communication. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. viii-xii.
  • Grant, W.J. (2013). The Role of Science and Technology in Public Policy. What is Knowledge for? In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 59-73.  
  • Lamberts, R. (2013). Ethics and Accountability in Science and Technology. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 130-147.  
  • Orthia, L.A. (2013). Negotiating Public Resistance to Engagement in Science and Technology. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 74-90.  
  • Perera, S. & Stocklmayer, S. (2013). Science Communication and Science Education. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 180-196.  
  • Searle, S.D. (2013). Scientists' Engagement with the Public. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 41-58.  
  • Stocklmayer, S. (2013). Engagement with Science: Models of Science Communication. In Gilbert, J.K., & Stocklmayer, S. (Eds). Communication and Engagement with Science and Technology: Issues and Dilemmas: A Reader in Science Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. 19-38.  

Refereed journal papers

  • McKinnon, M., & Lamberts, R. (2013) Influencing science teaching self-efficacy beliefs of primary school teachers: a longitudinal case study. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement. Prepublished online 16 May 2013. DOI:10.1080/21548455.2013.793432
  • Thomas, J., Raynor, M., & McKinnon, M. (2013) Academic integrity and oral examination: an Arabian Gulf perspective. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. Prepublished online 13 May 2013. DOI: 10.1080/14703297.2013.796724

Selected media coverage

  • Laverty, J., & Orthia, L.A. (2013, May). Doctor Who and science. Radio interview for Drive, ABC 666, Canberra.

2012

Book chapters

  • Bryant, C. (2012). Science Circus. In Gunstone, R. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, online. Print version forthcoming 2014.
  • Orthia, L.A. (2012). Science Fiction. In Gunstone, R. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, online. Print version forthcoming 2014.
  • Stocklmayer, S.M. (2012). Science Communication. In Gunstone, R. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, online. Print version forthcoming 2014.

Refereed journal papers

  • Orthia, L.A., Dobos, A.R., Guy, T., Kan, S.Z., Keys, S.E., Nekvapil, S. & Ngu, D.H.Y. (2012). How do people think about the science they encounter in fiction? Science students investigate using The Simpsons. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement 2(2): 149-174.
  • Stocklmayer, S., Rayner, J.P., & Gore, M.M. (2012) Changing the order of Newton's Laws - Why & how the Third Law should be first. The Physics Teacher, 50(7): 406-409.

Popular media

Selected media coverage

  • Gorman, G., & Orthia, L.A. (2012, October). Doctor Who, race and science. Radio interview for The Emporium, ABC 666, Canberra. Rebroadcast on The Science Show, Radio National, April 2013.
  • Hamilton, C. (2012). The secret science of The Simpsons. ANU Reporter, Autumn, 30-31.

2011

Refereed journal papers

  • Orthia, L.A. (2011). Antirationalist critique or fifth column of scientism? Challenges from Doctor Who to the mad scientist trope. Public Understanding of Science, 20: 525-542. 
  • Orthia, L.A. (2011). “Paradise is a little too green for me”: Discourses of environmental disaster in Doctor Who 1963-2010. Colloquy, 21: online.
  • Perera, S. (2011). Science teachers from non-Western backgrounds challenged by Western science: A whole other ball game. The International Journal of Science in Society, 2(2): 11-22.
  • Stocklmayer, S.M., Durant, I., & Cerini, B. (2011). Giving mothers a voice: Towards home involvement in high school science. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 1(1): 23-46.

Conference presentations

  • Orthia, L.A. (2011, July). Cross-dressing blokes can’t reason; man-hating chicks can’t weld: The gender politics of incompetent scientist characters in Doctor Who. PopCAANZ 2nd Annual International Conference, June 29-July 1 2011, Auckland, New Zealand.

Selected media coverage

  • Cerabona, R. (2011). Looking for a big bang. The Canberra Times, ‘Panorama’, 12 November, 15-16.
  • Ibo, R. (2011). Harnessing the power of fiction to teach science. Chemistry in Australia, March, 43.

2010

Refereed journal papers

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