Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
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.
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.
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.
Conference presentations
Orthia, L.A. (2010, September). “Paradise is a little too green for me”: Discourses of environmental disaster in Doctor Who, 1963-present. Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, Monash University, Melbourne, August 30-September 1 2010.
Orthia, L.A. (2010, September). The ginger temp’s deficient brain: Doctor Who and public engagement with science. Aussiecon4: 68th World Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne, September 2-6 2010.
Perera, S. (2010, February). Science Communication: Holding knowledge-constructs together. Australian Science Communicators National Conference, Canberra, February 2010.
Yardley, C.B. (2010, February). A study of the use of electronic road signs during 2008 in the Australian Capital Territory: Are road users seeing the message and is it changing their behaviours of water use? Australian Science Communicators National Conference, Canberra, February 2010.
Refereed journal papers
Orthia, L.A. (2010). “Sociopathetic abscess” or “yawning chasm”? The absent postcolonial transition in Doctor Who. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45: 207-225.
Stocklmayer, S.M., Rennie, L.J. & Gilbert, J.K. (2010). The roles of the formal and informal sectors in the provision of effective science education. Studies in Science Education, 46, 1-44.
Stocklmayer, S.M. (2010). Teaching direct current using a field model. International Journal of Science Education, 32,1801-1828.
Rifkin, W., Longnecker, N., Leach, J., Davis, L., & Orthia, L. (2010). Students publishing in new media: eight hypotheses - a house of cards? International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 18: 43-54.
Grant, W.J., Moon, B.R., & Busby Grant, J. (2010). Digital Dialogue? Australian Politicians' use of the Social Network Tool Twitter. Australian Journal of Political Science 45(4): 579-604.
Refereed conference papers
Rennie, L., Stocklmayer, S., & Gilbert, J. (2010, July). Collaboration, communication and complementarity: Improving science education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association, Port Stephens.
Popular media
Matthews, B., & Peddie, C. (2009, 22 June). Researchers probe deep into secrets of the brain. The Advertiser.
Micklethwait, G. (2009, Autumn). Time Frames. ANU Reporter, 26-27.
Perera, S. (2009, July/August). Challenges for English medium instruction in Sri Lanka. Dimensions, 11-16.
Matthews, B. (2009, 20 June). Eye spy from 1km in the sky. The Advertiser.
Perera, S. (2009, 22 June). Science communication and its implications for A/L students. Ceylon Daily News, Features, 16.
Refereed journal papers
Searle, S., & Bryant, C. (2009). Why students choose to study for a Forestry degree and implications for the Forestry Profession. Australian Forestry, 72: 71-79.
Invited keynote presentations
Stocklmayer, S.M. The Grimond Lecture. Opening Plenary of the Orkney International Science Festival, September 2009.
Stocklmayer, S.M. In fields of light, through deepest darkness. Plenary session at the Orkney International Science Festival, Kirkwall, September 2009.
Book chapters
Bryant, C. (2009). A History of the Australian Society for Parasitology. In Beveridge, I. & O’Donoghue, P.J. (Eds). A History of Parasitology in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Victoria: Raw Publishing, pp. 419-437.
Bryant, C. (2009). A History of Parasitology at The Australian National University. In Beveridge, I. & O’Donoghue, P.J. (Eds). A History of Parasitology in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Victoria: Raw Publishing, pp. 218-233.
Refereed conference papers
Rifkin, W., Longnecker, N., Leach, J., Davis, L., & Orthia, L. (2009, October) Motivate students by having them publish in new media: an invitation to science lecturers to share and test. 2009 UniServe Science Proceedings: ‘Motivating science undergraduates: Ideas and Interventions’. Sydney, October 1-2, 2009, pp. 105-111.
Perera, S. (2009, October). Effective science communication practices and simple hands-on activities: two important elements of teacher professional development. In Costa, M.F., Dorrío, B.V., & Patairiya, M.K. (Eds). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hands-on Science. Ahmedabad: Hands on Science Network, pp. 134-138.