Lee Constable has just published her new book How to save the whole stinkin’ planet. She describes her book and shares what inspired her to write it.
Book Overview
How to Save the Whole Stinkin’ Planet is a heroic adventure that takes the reader (grade 2-6) on an icky, sticky, gross and smelly journey with the main character, Captain […]
This month we speak with Lee Constable about her life and experiences in scicomm.
Lee Constable is the host of Scope, Network Ten’s science and tech show for kids aged 7-13. Lee’s background is a mixed bag with a Bachelor of Science (Honours), Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science Communication Outreach. During her Masters, Lee toured […]
What’s the best sci-com you’ve seen lately?
Lisa Bailey, ASC President
All credit to Dominic McDonald from the Royal Institution who kicked off this on the PSCI-COM mailing list (an international Sci-com mailing list, I highly recommend!) Fed up with the sometimes overly critical sci-com community online, he put out the call to share what’s inspired […]
ASC conferences are the premier Australian networking, knowledge making and professional development opportunity for those making science and technology accessible. Thanks to our major sponsor Monash Sustainable Development Institute, we will be returning to Victoria for the first time in over a decade, with the conference to be held in the new Learning and Teaching […]
Save the date – ASC Conference February 2020 announcement
Lisa Bailey is pleased to announce that thanks to our venue sponsor; Monash Sustainable Development Institute, we will be hosting the next National Australian Science Communicators Conference at Monash campus in Victoria, Sunday 16 – Wednesday 19 February 2020. It’s been over a decade since the conference was […]
Jillian Browning; ACT ASC President June Interview
Why did you choose to study science?
When I was in year 3 my parents took me on a whale watching trip and I fell in love with the ocean. Ever since then I wanted to be a marine scientist and I followed through with it right through to university […]
How should we celebrate 25 years of Australian Science Communicators?
It’s 1994. We’ve all just started exploring this newfangled thing called the ‘world wide web’ with our brand new Netscape browser. Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert grace our cinema screens for the first time.
In science it’s the year Comet shoemaker-Levy 9 smashes in […]
Deep sea mining, indigenous science, the future of space exploration—Journalism has never been more important to the future of our planet. Science and technology pervade all areas of modern reporting, including politics, foreign affairs and the economy.
Join journalism colleagues and top scientists from around the world to learn more about the future of journalism, science […]
How does Aussie science reporting rate?
Lisa Bailey, ASC President
The quality of Aussie science reporting? Average, if you ask a bunch of journalists who cover science, researchers themselves and science communicators.
A recent paper by Merryn McKinnon, Bronte Black, Sophie Bobillier, Kirsten Hood and Madeleine Parker from CPAS examined the perceptions of science media coverage by […]
Feature Interview with Lisa Bailey, ASC President
Lisa Bailey reflects on her experiences working in Science Communication (SciCom)
Where has SciCom taken you Lisa?
Weird places I didn’t expect SciCom to take me – that time in 2011 when I was 5 months pregnant, in Coober Pedy with a solar car, holding 3.4kg of solid gold that is […]