Publications
The following is a list of some of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science publications.
Refereed journal papers
McKinnon M., Semmens D., Moon B., Amarasekara I. & Bolliet L. (2016) Science, Twitter and election campaigns: tracking #auspol in the Australian federal elections. Journal of Science Communication, 15(06), A04.
Huttner-Koros, A. & Perera, S. (2016). Communicating science in English: a preliminary exploration into the professional self-perceptions of Australian scientists from language backgrounds other than English. Journal of Science Communication, 15(08), A03.
Refereed conference papers
Kleine, H., McNamara, G. & Rayner, J. (2016). The use of high speed imaging in education. The 31st International Congress on High Speed Imaging and Photonics. November 7-10, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
Selected media coverage
Settlement Council of Australia. (2016) Opening Doors project. Settlement Council of Australian Newsletter, August 2016 edition.
Finch, M. (2016, April 22). Curious, mysterious, marvellous, electrical: Mouth on legs. MarvellousElectrical. Includes interview with Lindy Orthia.
Gorrey, M. (2016, January 7). Canberra scientists on board first all-female expedition to Antarctica. The Canberra Times. Includes interview with Merryn McKinnon about Homeward Bound.
Popular media
Ingles, C. and Orthia, L.A. (2016). A New Synthesis on the Geology of Middle-earth: Genesis, Orogeny and Tectonics. Canberra: Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, The Australian National University.
Morgain R. & Orthia L. (2016, May 19). Ahead of its time: Doctor Who's 56 inspiring female scientists. The Conversation.
Grant, W.J. (2016, February 5). CSIRO needs to tackle the impact of climate change following its jobs shake-up. The Conversation.
Lamberts, R. & Grant, W.J. (2016, February 25). Should scientists engage with pseudo-science or anti-science? The Conversation.
Refereed journal papers
Marks, N.J. & Russell, A.W. (2015) Public engagement in biosciences and biotechnologies: Reflections on the role of sociology and STS. Journal of Sociology, 51(1), 97-115.
Bryant, C., Gore, M. & Stocklmayer, S. (2015). The Australian Science Centre Movement 1980-2000: Part 2—Science Centres in the States. Historical Records of Australian Science, 26, 133-149. doi:10.1071/HR15010.
Dobos, A.R., Orthia, L.A., & Lamberts, R. (2015) Does a picture tell a thousand words? The uses of digitally produced, multimodal pictures for communicating information about Alzheimer’s disease. Public Understanding of Science, 24(6), 712-730. doi: 10.1177/0963662514533623.
Bryant, C., Gore, M. & Stocklmayer, S. (2015). The Australian Science Centre Movement 1980-2000: Part 1—Questacon, the National Science and Technology Centre. Historical Records of Australian Science, 26, 122-132. doi: 10.1071/HR15008.
Kingsley, D.A. & Kennan, M.A. (2015) Open access: The whipping boy for problems in scholarly communication - a response to the rebuttals. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37, article 20.
Popular media
Grant, W.J. (2015, June 2). Trolling our confirmation bias: one bite and we're easily sucked in. The Conversation.
Hoepner, J. (2015, May 18). “Who would want to live in a world made up entirely of scientists?” Australia’s Chief Scientist calls for cooperation. The Impact Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Grant, W.J. (2015, May 11). Universities 'censor' bad ideas all the time, Tim Wilson. It's called learning. The Guardian, Comment is free section.
Phillips, N., Bowden, N., and Lamberts, R. (2015, September 24). Science is Golden podcast Episode 6: myth busting. Sydney Morning Herald.
Hoepner, J., & Grant, W.J. (2015, January 22). Wind turbine studies: how to sort the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Conversation.
Yardley, C. (2015) Stamp design: the art of science. British Philatelic Bulletin, 52 (February), pp. 178-181.
Yardley, C. (2015). The changing climate as recognised by Royal Mail and Australia Post. Themescene, 32 (3), 85-89.
Selected media coverage
Randall, A., & Hoepner, J. (2015, February 17). Health effects of wind turbines. Interview for Radio Adelaide.
Thomson, P. (2015, October 21). Back To The Future day: ANU hoverboard ready for Marty McFly's return. The Canberra Times. Report, photos and video of Graham Walker's leaf-blower hoverboard.
ABC News. (2015, September 19). Scientists team up with Canberra street artists to paint picture of local research, discoveries. ABC News. Reports on Master of Science Communication Outreach student Lee Constable project.
ABC TV. (2015, February 16). Turbine torture: do wind farms make you sick? Media Watch. Included coverage of Jacqui Hoepner and Will Grant's piece on wind farm science in The Conversation.
Hanson, T. (2015, June 9) Entertaining Science: A report from colloquy at the intersection of science and entertainment. Reports on Rashel Li conference presentation on science and The Big Bang Theory.
Walker, G. (2015). In their words: Travel Journal Southern Africa. ANU Reporter, 46(4), http://reporter.anu.edu.au/travel-journal-southern-africa.
Books
Yardley, C.B. (2015). The Representation of Science and Scientists on Postage Stamps. Canberra: ANU Press.
Taylor, M. (2015) Global Warming and Climate Change: What Australia knew and buried...then framed a new reality for the public. Canberra: ANU Press.