Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Popular media
Grant, W. & Linvill, D. (2016, November 18). Are you forcing your political views on your students? Times Higher Education.
Helman, M., Lee, K. & Perera, S. (2016, October). Science and settlement: Opening Doors for regional humanitarian communities. SCoA Settlement e-News.
Lamberts R. & Knight D. (2016, Sept 20). Science with Dr Rod Lamberts: Smart drugs. Nightlife, ABC Radio.
Hannan, B. (2016, July 1). Publish or perish: How academic culture is holding back collaboration. Policy Forum.
Orthia, L. (2016, May 23). The science issues this election are as old as the Australian media. The Conversation.
McKinnon, M. (2016, January 11). Teachers are leaving the profession – here’s how to make them stay. The Conversation.
Refereed journal papers
Gallois, C., Ashworth, P., Leach, J. & Moffat, K. (2016). The language of science and social licence to operate. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Prepublished online 17 August 2016. doi: 10.1177/0261927X16663254.
Orthia, L.A. & Morgain, R. (2016). The gendered culture of scientific competence: A study of scientist characters in Doctor Who 1963-2013. Sex Roles, 75(3), 79-94. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0597-y
Selected media coverage
Arnold, C. (2016, March 15). RateMyProfessor loves old, white, male teachers. The Daily Beast. Includes discussion of Lindy Orthia and Rachel Morgain's paper on gender, science and Doctor Who.
Macdonald, E. (2016, February 22). Alan Alda communicating science at the ANU. The Canberra Times.
Popular media
Yardley, C. (2015). Climate change according to Australia Post. Australasian Science, 36 (7), 26-27.
Grant, W.J. (2015, June 2). Trolling our confirmation bias: one bite and we're easily sucked in. The Conversation.
Hoepner, J. (2015, May 18). “Who would want to live in a world made up entirely of scientists?” Australia’s Chief Scientist calls for cooperation. The Impact Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Grant, W.J. (2015, May 11). Universities 'censor' bad ideas all the time, Tim Wilson. It's called learning. The Guardian, Comment is free section.
Conference presentations
Li, R. (2015). "I believe in a gender blind society like Star Trek": The importance of portraying gender balance in science on The Big Bang Theory. Paper presented at the Stories About Science: exploring science communication and entertainment media Symposium, Manchester, England, June 4-5 2015.
Refereed journal papers
McKinnon, M. & Vos, J. (2015). Engagement as a threshold concept for science education and science communication. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 5 (4), 297-318.
McKinnon, M. & Perera, S. (2015) The big picture: Pre-service teachers' perceptions of 'expert' science teachers. Teaching Science, 61(4), 32-44.
Marks, N.J. & Russell, A.W. (2015) Public engagement in biosciences and biotechnologies: Reflections on the role of sociology and STS. Journal of Sociology, 51(1), 97-115.
Bryant, C., Gore, M. & Stocklmayer, S. (2015). The Australian Science Centre Movement 1980-2000: Part 2—Science Centres in the States. Historical Records of Australian Science, 26, 133-149. doi:10.1071/HR15010.
Dobos, A.R., Orthia, L.A., & Lamberts, R. (2015) Does a picture tell a thousand words? The uses of digitally produced, multimodal pictures for communicating information about Alzheimer’s disease. Public Understanding of Science, 24(6), 712-730. doi: 10.1177/0963662514533623.
Bryant, C., Gore, M. & Stocklmayer, S. (2015). The Australian Science Centre Movement 1980-2000: Part 1—Questacon, the National Science and Technology Centre. Historical Records of Australian Science, 26, 122-132. doi: 10.1071/HR15008.
Selected media coverage
Lowrey, T. (2015, October 21). Back To The Future: ANU scientists unveil deckchair hoverboard which can be made in any garage. ABC News Online. Report, photos and video of Graham Walker's leaf-blower hoverboard.
Andrews, Karen. (2015, September 9). Address to launch the Inspiring Australia ACT Partnership, by The Hon Karen Andrews MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Science. Mentions CPAS projects KindaThinky and the Sciencycle.
ANU Spaces & Szabadai, R. (2015, August 24). Interview with Rebecca Szabadai for On Campus and ANU News. http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-spaces-rebecca-szabadai.
Randall, A., & Hoepner, J. (2015, February 17). Health effects of wind turbines. Interview for Radio Adelaide.
Thomson, P. (2015, October 21). Back To The Future day: ANU hoverboard ready for Marty McFly's return. The Canberra Times. Report, photos and video of Graham Walker's leaf-blower hoverboard.
ABC News. (2015, September 19). Scientists team up with Canberra street artists to paint picture of local research, discoveries. ABC News. Reports on Master of Science Communication Outreach student Lee Constable project.
ABC TV. (2015, February 16). Turbine torture: do wind farms make you sick? Media Watch. Included coverage of Jacqui Hoepner and Will Grant's piece on wind farm science in The Conversation.
Books
Yardley, C.B. (2015). The Representation of Science and Scientists on Postage Stamps. Canberra: ANU Press.
Taylor, M. (2015) Global Warming and Climate Change: What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public. Canberra: ANU Press.