Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Popular media
Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Leach, J., & McKinnon, M. (2016, November 4). What the ABC's new Catalyst could mean for science on TV. The Conversation.
Grant, W.J. (2016, August 12). Inequality and the anti-expert. The Greens Magazine.
Lamberts, R. (2016, March 29). Ban new wind turbines? Not if the bar for declaring them safe is impossibly high. The Conversation.
Grant, W.J. & Lamberts, R. (2016, March 9). Alan Alda on the art of science communication: 'I want to tell you a story'. The Conversation.
Leach, J. (2016, February 3). Think you know your rhetorical structures? I can't even ... The Conversation.
Refereed journal papers
Linvill, D.L. & Grant, W.J. (2016). The role of student academic beliefs in perceptions of instructor ideological bias. Teaching in Higher Education. Prepublished online 2 October 2016. doi:10.1080/13562517.2016.1237493.
Orthia, L.A. (2016). Democratizing science in the eighteenth century: resonances between Condorcet’s Sketch (1795) and twenty-first century science communication. Journal of Science Communication, 15(04), A04.
Orthia, L.A. (2016). ‘Laudably Communicating to theWorld’: Science in Sydney’s Public Culture, 1788–1821. Historical Records of Australian Science, 27(1), 1-12. doi:10.1071/HR15018.
Selected media coverage
Weisberger, M. (2016, August 1). 'Doctor Who' scientists: how do women measure up? LiveScience. Covers Lindy Orthia and Rachel Morgain's paper about gender and scientists in Doctor Who.
Woodward, R. (2016). Book Review: The Representation of Science and Scientists on Postage Stamps. In Philamath: A Journal of Mathematical Philately, XXXVII (3). Review of Chris Yardley's book of this name.
Popular media
Hoepner, J. (2015, May 18). “Who would want to live in a world made up entirely of scientists?” Australia’s Chief Scientist calls for cooperation. The Impact Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Grant, W.J. (2015, May 11). Universities 'censor' bad ideas all the time, Tim Wilson. It's called learning. The Guardian, Comment is free section.
Phillips, N., Bowden, N., and Lamberts, R. (2015, September 24). Science is Golden podcast Episode 6: myth busting. Sydney Morning Herald.
Hoepner, J., & Grant, W.J. (2015, January 22). Wind turbine studies: how to sort the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Conversation.
Yardley, C. (2015) Stamp design: the art of science. British Philatelic Bulletin, 52 (February), pp. 178-181.
Yardley, C. (2015). The changing climate as recognised by Royal Mail and Australia Post. Themescene, 32 (3), 85-89.
Yardley, C. (2015). Climate change according to Australia Post. Australasian Science, 36 (7), 26-27.
Selected media coverage
ABC TV. (2015, February 16). Turbine torture: do wind farms make you sick? Media Watch. Included coverage of Jacqui Hoepner and Will Grant's piece on wind farm science in The Conversation.
Hanson, T. (2015, June 9) Entertaining Science: A report from colloquy at the intersection of science and entertainment. Reports on Rashel Li conference presentation on science and The Big Bang Theory.
Walker, G. (2015). In their words: Travel Journal Southern Africa. ANU Reporter, 46(4), http://reporter.anu.edu.au/travel-journal-southern-africa.
Lowrey, T. (2015, October 21). Back To The Future: ANU scientists unveil deckchair hoverboard which can be made in any garage. ABC News Online. Report, photos and video of Graham Walker's leaf-blower hoverboard.
Andrews, Karen. (2015, September 9). Address to launch the Inspiring Australia ACT Partnership, by The Hon Karen Andrews MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Science. Mentions CPAS projects KindaThinky and the Sciencycle.
Books
Taylor, M. (2015) Global Warming and Climate Change: What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public. Canberra: ANU Press.
Refereed journal papers
Dobos, A.R., Orthia, L.A., & Lamberts, R. (2015) Does a picture tell a thousand words? The uses of digitally produced, multimodal pictures for communicating information about Alzheimer’s disease. Public Understanding of Science, 24(6), 712-730. doi: 10.1177/0963662514533623.
Bryant, C., Gore, M. & Stocklmayer, S. (2015). The Australian Science Centre Movement 1980-2000: Part 1—Questacon, the National Science and Technology Centre. Historical Records of Australian Science, 26, 122-132. doi: 10.1071/HR15008.
Kingsley, D.A. & Kennan, M.A. (2015) Open access: The whipping boy for problems in scholarly communication - a response to the rebuttals. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37, article 20.
Kingsley, D.A. & Kennan, M.A. (2015) Open access: The whipping boy for problems in scholarly publishing. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37, article 14.
McKinnon, M. & Vos, J. (2015). Engagement as a threshold concept for science education and science communication. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 5 (4), 297-318.
McKinnon, M. & Perera, S. (2015) The big picture: Pre-service teachers' perceptions of 'expert' science teachers. Teaching Science, 61(4), 32-44.
Conference presentations
Li, R. (2015). "I believe in a gender blind society like Star Trek": The importance of portraying gender balance in science on The Big Bang Theory. Paper presented at the Stories About Science: exploring science communication and entertainment media Symposium, Manchester, England, June 4-5 2015.