Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Popular media
Lamberts, R., & Grant, W.J. (2012, 18 October). Online education at the coalface: what academics need to know. The Conversation.
Wilson, P. (2012, 16 March). Healthy or harmful? It's a piece of cake. The Conversation.
Rayner, J. (2012, 11 July). This is a love song: the physics of music and the music of physics. The Conversation.
Orthia, L. (2012, May). Why did I publish a paper with undergraduate students about science in The Simpsons? Yliopistolainen, the Helsinki University’s staff magazine, section 'Top 100', 8.
Wilson, P. (2012, 24 July). Shopping for 'healthy' food? It's a minefield. The Conversation.
Book chapters
Bryant, C. (2012). Science Circus. In Gunstone, R. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, online. Print version forthcoming 2014.
Refereed journal papers
Stocklmayer, S.M., & Bryant, C. (2012). Science and the public – what should people know? International Journal of Science Education B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2, 81-101.
Selected media coverage
Perera, S. (2012, October 2). Interview with ABC Radio Queensland, Bush Telegraph.
Refereed conference papers
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2011, September) International collaborations: what does it take to build sustainable collateral? Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Science Centres, Cape Town.
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2011, September) A capacity building programme for science centres in South Africa: experiences over five years. Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Science Centres, Cape Town.
Refereed journal papers
Stocklmayer, S.M., Durant, I., & Cerini, B. (2011). Giving mothers a voice: Towards home involvement in high school science. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 1(1): 23-46.
Stocklmayer, S., & Gilbert, J.K. (2011) The launch of IJSE (B): Science communication and public engagement. [Editorial.] International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 1 (1), 1-4.
Perera, S. (2011). Science teachers from non-Western backgrounds challenged by Western science: A whole other ball game. The International Journal of Science in Society, 2(2): 11-22.
Orthia, L.A. (2011). Antirationalist critique or fifth column of scientism? Challenges from Doctor Who to the mad scientist trope. Public Understanding of Science, 20: 525-542.
Orthia, L.A. (2011). “Paradise is a little too green for me”: Discourses of environmental disaster in Doctor Who 1963-2010. Colloquy, 21: online.
Popular media
Lamberts, R. (2011, 24 June). Ian Chubb: ‘This is not the office of the chief climate change scientist’. The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Grant, W.J. (2011, 18 May). Brand Science is dead, and it’s time to break up the company. The Conversation.
Wilson, P., & Grant, W.J. (2011, 15 November). Has the use-by date gone past its prime? The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Tambiah, C. (2011, 29 April). Art and science: make love, not war. The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Franzen, R. (2011, 13 December). Australia in space: looking out and looking in. The Conversation.
Grant, W.J., & Lamberts, R. (2011, 26 May). Don’t preach to the converted on carbon tax: it’s the money vote that matters. The Conversation.
Lamberts, R. (2011, 12 May). Undervalued, underfunded, undermined … how science fared in the budget. The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Franzen, R. (2011, 14 December). Australia in space: letting others watch us … but at what cost? The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Grant, W.J. (2011, 30 March). The government’s war on science: deliberate attack, or abuse by neglect? The Conversation.
Grant, W.J. (2011, 8 July). Will Steffen: phoney debate is over, now for the carbon policy. The Conversation.
Grant, W.J., & Lamberts, R. (2011, 19 July). Who’s afraid of big, bad coal? Al Gore’s ‘climate reality’ is a pointless fairytale. The Conversation.
Book chapters
Stocklmayer, S.M., & Gore, M.M. (2011). Interactive science centres in Australia. In D.Griffin (Ed.) The History of Australian Museums. Canberra: National Museum of Australia, online.
Selected media coverage
Ibo, R. (2011). Harnessing the power of fiction to teach science. Chemistry in Australia, March, 43.
Cerabona, R. (2011). Looking for a big bang. The Canberra Times, ‘Panorama’, 12 November, 15-16.
Conference presentations
Orthia, L.A. (2011, July). Cross-dressing blokes can’t reason; man-hating chicks can’t weld: The gender politics of incompetent scientist characters in Doctor Who. PopCAANZ 2nd Annual International Conference, June 29-July 1 2011, Auckland, New Zealand.