There are ton of great events happening every month with industry, government, academia and more. It’s impossible for any one person to attend all of them. Here were a few great events or meetups that you might have missed: 

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1. Celebrate Accomplishment
CPAS officially launched the book, How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The Language of the Rebuffed (ANU Press, 2022) by our alum Christiane Gerblinger. The launch included Professor Joan Leach (Director, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science), Professor Anne Tiernan (Griffith Business School), and a few people from the Sir Rowland Wilson Foundation. 

The book analyses how Australian policy advisers communicate when executing one of their core roles: supporting the government as it delivers its policy agendas and priorities. Its premise is simple: after official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to ignore? 

Download your own copy for free and learn more at http://doi.org/10.22459/HGESS.2022 

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2. Science and Society @ ANU
To remember the life and work of Bruno Latour, Dr Dan Santos helped co-organize a half-day event with Professor Sujatha Raman (Centre for the Public Awareness of Science) and Professors Celia Roberts and Adrian Mackenzie (College of Arts & Social Sciences). The event was open to everyone – in-person and online, those who knew or had met Latour and those who were less familiar but still interested in his work. With around 40 people attending throughout the day, the mix of participants made for some amusing anecdotes and fascinating conversations.

To learn more check out this blog post: https://cpas.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/remember-bruno-latour 

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3. National Science Priorities
CPAS Director Professor Joan Leach joined Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley in conversation to discuss the national science priorities for Australia at the Australian Science Communicators conference (ASC 2023). 

Australia’s National Science and Research Priorities and National Science Statement will provide direction for our science system. The Science Strategy and Priorities Taskforce is seeking your views on refreshing the priorities to reflect Australia’s ambitions and challenges. Your feedback will help shape Australia’s new priorities and statement. This will deliver social, economic and environmental benefits for all Australians. Learn more here: https://consult.industry.gov.au/sciencepriorities1 

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