Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Popular media
Leach, J. (2016, February 3). Think you know your rhetorical structures? I can't even ... The Conversation.
de Kauwe, V. (2016). Return of the Archons: Children of the Revolution. In R. Smith? (ed.) Outside In: Star Trek TOS. Maryland: ATB Publishing.
Perera, S. (2016). Science, language and worldviews: Cultural constructions. Cultures, 3(4): 9.
Lamberts, R. & Grant, W.J. (2016, August 23). A pub brawl over research funding doesn't benefit any of us. The Conversation.
McKinnon, M. (2016, July 13). How to keep more women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The Conversation.
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.
Selected media coverage
Woodward, R. (2016). Book Review: The Representation of Science and Scientists on Postage Stamps. In Philamath: A Journal of Mathematical Philately, XXXVII (3). Review of Chris Yardley's book of this name.
Baker E. (2016, November 25). Women in science: Canberra scientists join all-female expedition to Antarctica. The Canberra Times. Coverage of Merryn McKinnon's participation on homeward bound.
Harper, C. (2016, October 8). ANU scientists' magpie swooping video goes viral. The RiotACT. Coverage of Will Grant and Rod Lamberts' video of them riding down Linnaeus Way in awful jumpers on a tandem bike getting swooped by magpies.
Wong, K. (2016) 'Learning to talk the talk.' The Standard. Discusses joint CPAS-HKU Space Master of Science Communication program.
Zusi, K. (2016, January). A century of science on stamps. The Scientist, p. 72. Review of Chris Yardley's book on this subject.
ABC 666. (2016, February 22). MASH star Alan Alda partners with Australian National University to boost science communication. ABC News.
ABC News. (2016, March 4). Alan Alda on why science and art are 'long lost lovers'. 7.30 Program. Discusses Alan Alda's links with CPAS.
Brennan, I. (2016, January 19). Australian teacher shortage fears as student numbers soar. ABC News. Includes interview with Merryn McKinnon.
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.
Refereed journal papers
Donkers, M. & Orthia, L.A. (2016). Popular theatre for science engagement: Audience engagement with human cloning following a production of Caryl Churchill's A Number. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 6(1), 23-45. doi: 10.1080/21548455.2014.947349.
Orthia, L.A. (2016). What’s wrong with talking about the Scientific Revolution? Applying lessons from history of science to applied fields of science studies. Minerva, 54(3), 353-373. doi: 10.1007/s11024-016-9299-4.
Welbourne, D.J. & Grant, W.J. (2016). Science communication on YouTube: Factors that affect channel and video popularity. Public Understanding of Science, 25(6), 706-718, doi: 10.1177/0963662515572068.
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
Li, R. & Orthia, L.A. (2016). Communicating the nature of science through The Big Bang Theory: Evidence from a focus group study. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 6(2): 115-136. doi: 10.1080/21548455.2015.1020906.
Book chapters
McKinnon, M. & Vos, J. (2016). Crossing a Threshold. In Maarten C.A. van der Sanden & Marc J. de Vries (Eds), Science and Technology Education and Communication: Seeking Synergy, (pp 27 - 46). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Smith, C. & Rowe, G. (2016). Deliberative processes in practice. In S. Dodds & R.A. Ankeny (eds.) Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains, Springer, pp. 59-70.
Conference presentations
de Kauwe, V. (2016). Aristotle's Monster: How the Aristotelian view of women and disabilities still haunts us. Presented at the Gender, Science and Wonder workshop, 11-12 February 2016, Australian National University.