Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Popular media
Wilson, P. (2012, 24 July). Shopping for 'healthy' food? It's a minefield. The Conversation.
Orthia, L.A. (2012). Ghost Light: Only the mad see clearly. In Smith?, R. (Ed). Outside In. Baltimore: ATB Publishing, pp. 406-408.
Grant, W.J. (2012, 26 March). James Cameron and the Mariana Trench sparks titanic angst. The Conversation.
Wilson, P. (2012, 11 October). Doctor, don't make assumptions about your fat patients. The Conversation.
Selected media coverage
Hamilton, C. (2012). The secret science of The Simpsons. ANU Reporter, Autumn, 30-31.
Book chapters
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2012). Science Communication. In Gunstone, R. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, online. Print version forthcoming 2014.
Refereed journal papers
Stocklmayer, S., Rayner, J.P., & Gore, M.M. (2012) Changing the order of Newton's Laws - Why & how the Third Law should be first. The Physics Teacher, 50(7): 406-409.
Orthia, L.A., Dobos, A.R., Guy, T., Kan, S.Z., Keys, S.E., Nekvapil, S., & Ngu, D.H.Y. (2012). How do people think about the science they encounter in fiction? Science students investigate using The Simpsons. International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement 2(2): 149-174.
Refereed journal papers
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.
Perera, S. (2011, 7 July). She’ll be right, mate – is the Aussie attitude incompatible with science? The Conversation.
Lamberts, R. (2011, 1 June). Hey, Dick Smith: if Carbon Cate can take Murdoch’s ‘lies’ then surely you can too. 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.
Refereed conference papers
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.