Waiting for advice that is beyond doubt: uncertainty as Australia's reason for joining the invasion of Iraq.   Visting Fellow and recent CPAS alum Christiane Gerblinger recently published her article, 'Waiting for advice that is beyond doubt: uncertainty as Australia's reason for joining the invasion of Iraq', with the Intelligence and National Security journal. A dominant theme across examinations of the intelligence used to justify invading Iraq in 2003 is that political decision-makers amplified the clarity of their evidence. What has been missed is that Australia did exactly the opposite: here, the political leadership channelled uncertainty, inconclusiveness and doubt into highly effective rhetorical manoeuvres that embraced the imperfection of evidence and, with it, sufficiently weakened arguments that an invasion could take place only with absolute proof. Christiane's article examines the role of Australian intelligence amid a complex mix of factors that facilitated those manoeuvres. Read more here.      

de Kauwe, V., Orthia, L.A. (2018). Knowledge, power and the ethics illusion: Explaining diverse viewer interpretations of the politics in classic era Doctor Who. The Journal of Popular Television, 6(2). doi: 10.1386/jptv.6.2.151_1

Dunn, M.E., McKinnon, M. (2018). How can university sexual health promotion events reach those most at risk? A cross-sectional study. Sexual Health. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH16228

Linvill, Darren L., Boatwright, Brandon C. & Grant, Will J. (2018) “Back-stage” dissent: student Twitter use addressing instructor ideology. Communication Education. Prepublished 29 Jan 2018. 

Smith, C. (2017). A case study of crowdsourcing imagery coding in natural disasters. In S. Hai-Jew (ed.) Data Analytics in Digital Humanities, Springer, pp. 2017-230.

Stocklmayer, S.M. & Rennie, L.J. (2017). The attributes of informal science education: A science communication perspective. In P.G. Patrick (ed.), Preparing Informal Science Educators: Perspectives from Science Communication and Education. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 527-544.

Gascoigne, T. & Metcalfe, J. (2017) The emergence of modern science communication in Australia. Journal of Science Communication, 16(03), A01.

Lamberts, R. (2017). Science<-> society: Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beings. Chemistry in Australia, (Nov 2017), 34.

Lamberts, R. (2017). Science communication: frequently public, occasionally intellectual. Journal of Science Communication, 16(01), C01.

McGillion, C. (2017). Animation as a science communication tool in Timor-Leste. Science Communication, 39(2), 278-285. doi: 10.1177/1075547017696164.

McKinnon M. & Orthia L.A. (2017). Vaccination communication strategies: What have we learned, and lost, in 200 years? Special issue ‘History of science communication’, Journal of Science Communication, 16(03), A08.

McKinnon, M., Ahmad, M., Bongers, M., Chevalier, R., Telfer, I., & Van Dorssen, C. (2017). Media coverage of lethal control: A case study of kangaroo culling in the Australian Capital Territory. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. Prepublished online 8 December 2017. doi: 10.1080/10871209.2018.1396511.

McKinnon, M., Howes, J., Leach, A. & Prokop, N. (2017). Perils and positives of science journalism in Australia. Public Understanding of Science. Prepublished online 29 March 2017. doi: 10.1177/0963662517701589.

McKinnon, M. & Bryant, C. (2017). Thirty years of a science communication course in Australia: Genesis and evolution of a degree. Science Communication, 39(2), 169-194. doi: 10.1177/1075547017696166

Medvecky, F. & Leach, J. (2017). Editorial: The ethics of science communication. Journal of Science Communication, 16(04), E1-5.

Rayner, J. (2017). Using a cell phone to investigate the skin depth effect in salt water. The Physics Teacher, 55, 83-86. doi: 10.1119/1.4974118

Rowbotham S., McKinnon M., Leach J., Lamberts R. & Hawe P. (2017). Does citizen science have the capacity to transform population health science? Critical Public Health. Prepublished 9 November 2017, doi:10.1080/09581596.2017.1395393.

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Anggaryani, M. (2017) Should science communicators learn from the Yogyakartans? Paper presented at Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Science Biennial Conference, Wollongong, 22-24 November 2017.

Huttner-Koros, A. (2017). Communicating science in English: exploring the professional self-perceptions of Australian scientists from language backgrounds other than English. Presented at the Australian Science Communicators National Conference, Adelaide, 23-24 February 2017.

Orthia, L. (2017) Reclaiming the origin of science for science communication and science studies. Presented at Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Science Biennial Conference, Wollongong, 22-24 November 2017.

Perera, S. & Zhang, T. (2017) Co-construction of multicultural perspectives within science communication: A learning community case study. Paper presented at Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy & Social Studies of Science Biennial Conference, Wollongong, 22-24 November 2017.

Roberson, T. (2017). Seeing [hyped] science differently. Presented at the Australian Science Communicators National Conference, Adelaide, 23-24 February 2017.

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