Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Conference presentations
Wilson, P. (2011) A GM Conversation? Communication around the introduction of GM canola to Australia. Paper presented at Food and Agriculture Under the Big Sky, the Joint 2011 Annual Meetings & Conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)) at the University of Montana, Missoula, USA, 9-12 June, 2011.
Refereed conference papers
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2011, September) International collaborations: what does it take to build sustainable collateral? Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Science Centres, Cape Town.
Refereed journal papers
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.
Stocklmayer, S., & Gilbert, J.K. (2011) The launch of IJSE (B): Science communication and public engagement. [Editorial.] International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 1 (1), 1-4.
Popular media
Lamberts, R. (2011, 24 June). Ian Chubb: ‘This is not the office of the chief climate change scientist’. The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Grant, W.J. (2011, 18 May). Brand Science is dead, and it’s time to break up the company. The Conversation.
Wilson, P., & Grant, W.J. (2011, 15 November). Has the use-by date gone past its prime? The Conversation.
Book chapters
Stocklmayer, S.M., & Gore, M.M. (2011). Interactive science centres in Australia. In D.Griffin (Ed.) The History of Australian Museums. Canberra: National Museum of Australia, online.
Conference presentations
Orthia, L.A. (2010, September). The ginger temp’s deficient brain: Doctor Who and public engagement with science. Aussiecon4: 68th World Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne, September 2-6 2010.
Perera, S. (2010, February). Science Communication: Holding knowledge-constructs together. Australian Science Communicators National Conference, Canberra, February 2010.
Yardley, C.B. (2010, February). A study of the use of electronic road signs during 2008 in the Australian Capital Territory: Are road users seeing the message and is it changing their behaviours of water use? Australian Science Communicators National Conference, Canberra, February 2010.
Orthia, L.A. (2010, September). “Paradise is a little too green for me”: Discourses of environmental disaster in Doctor Who, 1963-present. Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, Monash University, Melbourne, August 30-September 1 2010.
Refereed journal papers
Orthia, L.A. (2010). “Sociopathetic abscess” or “yawning chasm”? The absent postcolonial transition in Doctor Who. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45: 207-225.
Stocklmayer, S.M., Rennie, L.J. & Gilbert, J.K. (2010). The roles of the formal and informal sectors in the provision of effective science education. Studies in Science Education, 46, 1-44.
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2010). Teaching direct current using a field model. International Journal of Science Education, 32,1801-1828.
Rifkin, W., Longnecker, N., Leach, J., Davis, L., & Orthia, L. (2010). Students publishing in new media: eight hypotheses - a house of cards? International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 18: 43-54.
Grant, W.J., Moon, B.R., & Busby Grant, J. (2010). Digital Dialogue? Australian Politicians' use of the Social Network Tool Twitter. Australian Journal of Political Science 45(4): 579-604.
Refereed conference papers
Rennie, L., Stocklmayer, S., & Gilbert, J. (2010, July). Collaboration, communication and complementarity: Improving science education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association, Port Stephens.
Refereed conference papers
Rifkin, W., Longnecker, N., Leach, J., Davis, L., & Orthia, L. (2009, October) Motivate students by having them publish in new media: an invitation to science lecturers to share and test. 2009 UniServe Science Proceedings: ‘Motivating science undergraduates: Ideas and Interventions’. Sydney, October 1-2, 2009, pp. 105-111.
Perera, S. (2009, October). Effective science communication practices and simple hands-on activities: two important elements of teacher professional development. In Costa, M.F., Dorrío, B.V., & Patairiya, M.K. (Eds). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hands-on Science. Ahmedabad: Hands on Science Network, pp. 134-138.
Popular media
Micklethwait, G. (2009, Autumn). Time Frames. ANU Reporter, 26-27.
Perera, S. (2009, July/August). Challenges for English medium instruction in Sri Lanka. Dimensions, 11-16.
Matthews, B. (2009, 20 June). Eye spy from 1km in the sky. The Advertiser.
Perera, S. (2009, 22 June). Science communication and its implications for A/L students. Ceylon Daily News, Features, 16.
Book chapters
Bryant, C. (2009). A History of the Australian Society for Parasitology. In Beveridge, I. & O’Donoghue, P.J. (Eds). A History of Parasitology in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Victoria: Raw Publishing, pp. 419-437.
Bryant, C. (2009). A History of Parasitology at The Australian National University. In Beveridge, I. & O’Donoghue, P.J. (Eds). A History of Parasitology in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Victoria: Raw Publishing, pp. 218-233.
Bryant, C. (2009). Between Animals: Thoughts of a Member of the Biota. (A response to David Horton). In Art, Science and the Environment. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, pp. 83-91.
Invited keynote presentations
Stocklmayer, S.M. In fields of light, through deepest darkness. Plenary session at the Orkney International Science Festival, Kirkwall, September 2009.
Stocklmayer, S.M. Communicating physics to the public – what do people really learn? Plenary address to the inaugural meeting of the Institute of Physics Communicators group, London, September 2009.
Refereed journal papers
Kennan, M.A., & Kingsley, D.A. (2009). State of the nation: A snapshot of Australian institutional repositories. First Monday, 14(2). Online.