Living in a world of mass media means that there is the real power to change things when we harness the relationships between science, media, and culture. Our alumni have gone on to become aces in harnessing all sorts of media to communicate science, simplify difficult concepts, spark emotions and inspire people across different ages and backgrounds. They become jacks-of-all-trades, whether media specialists, content creators, writers and authors, artists and performers, media personalities, or academics.

Maaroof Fakhri works in virtual reality, video games and media. He is now based in Switzerland, as the co-founder of Mac N Cheese games and working at the George Lucas Education Foundation, to translate his vision by leading a team of creatives, technologists and learning designers to build the next-generation immersive learning simulations. 

“I’m constantly navigating the complexities of communicating scientific and technical things with these stakeholders,” enthuses the graduate. “I never would have gotten the role without the skills I developed at ANU.” - from an interview with Study International

Team POPSICULE based at ANU explores the cultural meanings of science, with the aim to better understand how pop cultural narratives about science have affected the public discourse and understanding of science, and thus our science-society relationship. They offer lectures, symposia, courses, public events, spectacles, field trips, publications, films and more. 

Tom Carruthers is the Media Director of Science in Public, which helps "scientists turn research into real-world impact", and Founder & Director of Carruthers Studio. He has experience working in the Australian university, government, not-for-profit and private sectors.