Associate Professor Will Grant
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About
Dr Will Grant is Associate Professor in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. Awarded for his public policy and outreach work, Will has authored or co-authored dozens of works in various scholarly outlets (including Public Understanding of Science, Environmental Communication, Computers in Human Behaviour, Scientometrics and Higher Education Policy), and written commissioned and pitched articles and opinion pieces in high impact public facing outlets (including The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Conversation, Times Higher Education, The Canberra Times, The Brisbane Times, Crikey, The Drum, Climate Spectator and ABC Environment), focusing mostly on the interaction of science, politics and technology. He is co-founder of the researcher employment service PostAc.
Will is regularly heard on Radio National discussing science for Research Filter and Nightlife, as well as podcasting in The Wholesome Show, G’day Patriots and G’day Sausages, charting in the Australian iTunes top 50. Will has held science communication workshops for a range of Australia’s leading science organisations, including Universities Australia, Science and Technology Australia and the Australian Academy of Science, as well has dozens of universities and research institutes, government departments and scientific societies around the country. He tweets at @willozap.
A more extensive CV of publications and other outputs can be found here.
Affiliations
Research interests
Science communication
Research, science and technology policy
Political theory
Social Media / Social Network Analysis
Projects
- A comparison of anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination image memes on Facebook, Supervisor
- A comparison of climate change communication on social media and regular (news) media, Supervisor
- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Using Social Media to Promote and Educate on Health Issues, Supervisor
- ANU health and wellbeing communication with students, Supervisor
- Climate Change Communication in Online Environmental Discourse, Supervisor
- Communicating organisational outcomes using simple performance indicators: a case study using ACT elective surgery waiting lists, Supervisor
- COMPLETED - Genomics and Twitter: How is genomics discussed on Twitter?, Supervisor
- Connecting science with policy and practice: Lessons from science-policy ‘Bright Spots’, Supervisor
- Contextualizing industry job requirements for PhDs: a mixed method investigation, Supervisor
- COVID-19 misinformation-sharing behaviour in Australia; theory and profiles for science communication practice, Supervisor
- Environmental resource management board game, Supervisor
- Exploring the gender gap in science communication via popular YouTube science channels, Supervisor
- How can personal values impact farmer decision making to do with climate change?, Supervisor
- Investigating Scientific Representations of Suicide in Documentary Film, Supervisor
- Investigating the use of video games for science communication, Supervisor
- Outstanding Linkage Grant Success - What Contributes?, Supervisor
- Politicisation through strategic framing: A study into Australian special interest groups., Supervisor
- Prohibition, illegal consumption and the freedom and safety of the consumer, Supervisor
- Scanning the science society horizon, Supervisor
- Science communication via the internet: a blog on Australian parrots, Supervisor
- Science shows and theatre, Supervisor
- Snowball Sampling in the Internet Era: A Case Study of Zuckerberg’s Miscarriage Issue on Facebook, Supervisor
- The practical application of storytelling: Using narrative instead of throwing facts and figures on a plate, Supervisor
- The public life of numbers, Supervisor
- Types of evidence cited in Australian Government publications, Supervisor
- Understanding climate change framing in an Australian context, Supervisor
- What affects popularity of science communication content on YouTube?, Supervisor
- What can Australian universities do to improve the mobility of scientists between academia and industry?, Supervisor
Teaching information
Location
Peter Baume Building 42a