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

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 TwitterAustralian 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.