Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Refereed conference papers
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.
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.
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.
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.
Refereed journal papers
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.
Orthia, L.A. (2010). “Sociopathetic abscess” or “yawning chasm”? The absent postcolonial transition in Doctor Who. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45: 207-225.
Conference presentations
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.
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.
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. (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.
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.
Book chapters
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.
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.
Refereed conference papers
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.
Invited keynote presentations
Stocklmayer, S.M. In fields of light, through deepest darkness. Plenary session at the Orkney International Science Festival, Kirkwall, September 2009.
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.