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Book Launch: Communicating Science »
The launch features five authors telling the story of their country: the USA, Pakistan, Australia, East Africa and Russia. The speakers were selected from the 108 authors who contributed to a book describing how modern science communication emerged in different countries around the world. Five
Toss Gascoigne »
Toss Gascoigne is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Bernard Schiele »
Bernard Schiele is a researcher at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Science and Technology, and Professor of Communication at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
Joan Leach »
Professor Joan Leach is the Director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, The Australian National University.
Michelle Riedlinger »
Dr Michelle Riedlinger is an associate professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, and secretary of the PCST Network and her career spans the practical and theoretical sides of science communication.
Luisa Massarani »
Dr Luisa Massarani is coordinator of the Brazilian National Institute of Public Communication of Science and Technology, and researcher and science communicator at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Olivier Krischer »
Olivier Krischer is the deputy director of the China Studies Centre, at the University of Sydney. Krischer completed his PhD at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, at ANU, where he was also the curator of the CIW Gallery. He is the co-editor of Asia through Art and Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2013) and a special issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art, ‘Asian Art Research in Australia and New Zealand’ (Taylor & Francis, 2016). He has also lectured in art and design history at the University of Tsukuba and the University of Sydney, and was previously the managing editor of ArtAsiaPacific magazine in Hong Kong (2011–12).
Marcus Fielding »
Marcus Fielding joined the Australian Army in 1983 and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in December 1986. He was commissioned into the Royal Australian Engineers, has held a variety of command, staff and instructional appointments, and has served on operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, East Timor and Iraq.
Thea Gellerfy »
Thea Gellerfy is an early career researcher with a background in defence industry, working in support of several global military operations. She is pursuing an academic career in strategic studies, focusing on developing more robust methodologies for defence acquisitions.
John Blaxland »
John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at The Australian National University. A retired Army officer, he is also former head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Andrew Selth »
Andrew Selth is an Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia. He has been studying international security issues and Asian affairs for 45 years, as a diplomat, strategic intelligence analyst and research scholar. Dr Selth has published 10 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed works, most of them about Myanmar (Burma).
Caroline Stevenson »
Caroline Stevenson is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University. Her interests include the China maritime trade to Southeast Asia, Chinese trade ceramics and the Canton trade.
Jennifer Jones »
Jennifer Jones is a non-Indigenous woman born and raised on Wiradjuri country in the Southern Riverina district of New South Wales. Her PhD, from the University of Adelaide, examined cross-racial collaboration in Australian publishing history. Jennifer’s ARC post-doctoral fellowship project, examining Aboriginal Branches of the Country Women’s Association of NSW (1956–72), was conducted at the University of Melbourne. She joined the History Program at La Trobe University in 2011, teaching Australian Indigenous studies at Bendigo (2011–15), and interdisciplinary studies at Albury–Wodonga (from 2016). Jennifer’s research interests include Indigenous Australian history, rural and religious history, and histories of childhood and education.
Roy Henry Patterson »
Roy Henry Patterson (1940–2017) was a Taungurung Elder with Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Irish heritage. Born and raised in Healesville, Roy worked in the forestry industry, as a circus hand and as a farm labourer. In retirement, he returned to his ancestral lands at Taggerty, in central Victoria’s Upper Goulburn Valley. Drawn by desire to protect and foster respect for his traditional Country, Uncle Roy worked (2002–17) as an Indigenous Educator at the Camp Jungai outdoor education facility and at Holmesglen Rural Learning Centre at Eildon, where he became renowned for applying traditional knowledge to his cooking and in medicinal interventions. Uncle Roy died on 15 April 2017, and is survived by children Keith, Steven, Jessica and their families.
Nicholas A. Bainton »
Nick Bainton is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland. He has been studying the social impacts of large-scale resource extraction in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. He has written widely on the social and political effects of extractive capitalism in Melanesia and beyond.
Kalissa Alexeyeff »
Kalissa Alexeyeff is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. She has a background in critical theory and social anthropology and conducts ongoing research in the Cook Islands and Sāmoa in the home islands and diaspora. Her main research interest is the intersection of gender, sexuality and culture in contemporary contexts. She is the author of Dancing from the heart: Movement, gender and Cook Islands globalization (2009) and co-editor of Gender on the edge: Transgender, gay, and other Pacific Islanders (2014) and Touring Pacific cultures (2016).
John Cox »
John Cox has 25 years’ experience in the Pacific, working as a volunteer, NGO program manager, development consultant and anthropologist. His core work on ‘fast money schemes’ explores the moral and developmental aspirations of the growing middle classes of the Pacific. John has published on gender, politics and developmental challenges in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji, including new communications technologies, sorcery accusations, disaster response and livelihoods. John is an Honorary Lecturer with the School of Culture History and Language at ANU and an Honorary Associate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He currently works at the University of Melbourne on the ARC Laureate Project ‘Future Islands: Catalysing Solutions to Climate Change in Low-Lying Islands’.
Debra McDougall »
Debra McDougall is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, author of Engaging with strangers: Love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands (2016) and co-editor of Christian politics in Oceania (2013). Her current research is focused on a remarkable vernacular language movement, the Kulu Language Institute of Ranongga, and she is interested in other grassroots challenges to socio-economic, political and epistemological inequality in Oceania.
20,000 downloads for our first title published using Shorthand »
Fluid Matter(s) is the first ANU Press title published using Shorthand. The rich and evocative design has captured the attention of researchers across the globe with over 20,000 downloads since its release in August 2020. Co-editors Natalie Kohle and Shigehisa Kuriyama discuss how programs like
ANU Press’ record-breaking 2020 »
Vindicating the need for open-access peer-reviewed resources, ANU Press has enjoyed a record-breaking year with over 4.1m downloads at the end of the third quarter. We’ve summarised some of the key highlights from this year for you to share with your friends and colleagues. Download PDF (1.8MB) +61
Celebrating NAIDOC Week »
ANU is a world leader in the advancement of Indigenous scholarship, and enjoys a long-standing commitment to Indigenous reconciliation. Our collection includes over 50 titles dedicated to Indigenous culture, including the popular Aboriginal History Journal, which contains studies of Aboriginal and
Asia-Pacific Linguistics »
Asia-Pacific Linguistics (A-PL) publishes scholarly research relating to the languages of Asia, the Pacific and Australia, with a particular focus on little described languages. This includes language description and grammatical analysis, language documentation, language typology and linguistic
Australian Dictionary of Biography »
Since 1962 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been prepared by its staff in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. It provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of significant and representative men and women of this country, who
Melanie Nolan »
Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History at The Australian National University (ANU). Her work includes Breadwinning (2000) a history of women and the state, Kin (2005) a collective biography of a working-class family which won the 2006 ARANZ Ian Wards Prize and was short-listed for the 2007 Ernest Scott Prize, and, most recently, general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 18 (2012). She is the co-ordinator of the Masters of Biographical Research and Writing at the ANU. She was on the judging panel of the Magarey Medal for Biography (2008), the selection panel for the Australian Prime Ministers Centre research and scholarship program (2008-2011), the National Biography Award (2012) and is a member of the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate’s Advisory Board.