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.
Popular media
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.
Lamberts, R. (2011, 15 December). Australia in space: what’s our policy? The Conversation.
Lamberts, R., & Grant, W.J. (2011, 8 April). Gentlemen’s rules are out, scientists: it’s time to unleash the beast. The Conversation.
Grant, W.J., & Lamberts, R. (2011, 18 November). Scientists and politicians – the same but different? The Conversation.
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.
Invited keynote presentations
Stocklmayer, S.M. Contributions from the world of science communication: what can we learn from the informal experience? Plenary address to the Korean Association for Science Education, Seoul, February 2011.
Refereed conference papers
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2011, September) What are scientists trying to tell me and should I care?: Involving youth and families in science communication. Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Science Centres, Cape Town.
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.
Conference presentations
Wilson, P. (2011) A GM Conversation? Communication around the introduction of GM canola to Australia. Paper presented at Food and Agriculture Under the Big Sky, the Joint 2011 Annual Meetings & Conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)) at the University of Montana, Missoula, USA, 9-12 June, 2011.
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 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.
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.