Dr Christiane Gerblinger

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About
After completing a PhD on science and regeneration in Gothic science fiction in 2000, Christiane worked in a range of public sector roles, including as senior policy adviser and speechwriter. Her last stint as a speechwriter in the Treasury portfolio led to her being awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship to undertake a second PhD on the language of rejected or ignored policy advice. She graduated in 2021 and is currently a Visiting Fellow and co-convenor of ‘Science, Technology and Public Policy’ with A/Prof Sujatha Raman.
Affiliations
Projects
- The Language of the Rebuffed: A Critical Appraisal of how Policy Advisers Communicate, Principal investigator
Location
Peter Baume Building 42A
Publications
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How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The Language of the Rebuffed, ANU Press, 2022
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‘Breaking the fourth wall: evidence communication inside policy organisations’, Evidence & Policy Blogs, 16 March 2022
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"Peep show: a framework for watching how evidence is communicated inside policy organisations", Evidence & Policy, 14 February 2022
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"Waiting for advice that is beyond doubt: Uncertainty as Australia's reason to join the invasion of Iraq", Intelligence and National Security, Volume 37, Issue 1, 2022
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“Are experts complicit in making their advice easy for politicians to ignore?”, London School of Economics Impact Blog, April 2021
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“James Whale’s Frankensteins: Reanimating the Great War”, CineAction, 82/83 2010
“’Fiery the Angels Fell’: America, Regeneration and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner”, Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol 21, No 1 (July 2002)
Other
The Language of the Rebuffed: A Critical Appraisal of how Policy Advisers Communicate (PhD thesis), 2021
Submission to the Independent Review of the APS, 2018
Primal Future: Science and Regeneration in Gothic Science Fiction (PhD thesis), 2000