Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Popular media
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.
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.
Selected media coverage
Ibo, R. (2011). Harnessing the power of fiction to teach science. Chemistry in Australia, March, 43.
Refereed journal papers
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.
Conference presentations
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.
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.
Refereed journal papers
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.
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.
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
Perera, S. (2009, 22 June). Science communication and its implications for A/L students. Ceylon Daily News, Features, 16.
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.
Book chapters
Bryant, C. (2009). Between Animals: Thoughts of a Member of the Biota. (A response to David Horton). In Art, Science and the Environment. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, pp. 83-91.
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.
Invited keynote presentations
Stocklmayer, S.M. Communicating physics to the public – what do people really learn? Plenary address to the inaugural meeting of the Institute of Physics Communicators group, London, September 2009.
Stocklmayer, S.M. The Grimond Lecture. Opening Plenary of the Orkney International Science Festival, September 2009.
Refereed journal papers
Kennan, M.A., & Kingsley, D.A. (2009). State of the nation: A snapshot of Australian institutional repositories. First Monday, 14(2). Online.
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.
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.