THE CASE FOR HOPE
Professor Joan Leach, Former ASC National President, & Director, the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), ANU
5.30 PM AEDT, Wednesday 18 December 2024, in person and online
Although recent events have seen some setbacks for science communication, there are good things happening too.
Professor Leach will outline a number of positive developments at both the national and international level that will give you a more positive outlook for the festive season and the new year.
In person in Canberra and online, with watch parties in various states (watch this space for updates)
Online for members only: Registration essential: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82465259981?pwd=mAFHDWqCt3E1gLYsxpVbmHzsqDWawP.1
Canberra: Smiths Alternative, 76 Alinga St, Civic, ASC Members receive a free drink coupon.
Brisbane: Watch Party 4.30 AEST – University of QLD, St Lucia campus, Room 39-103 – Colin Clark Building. Live stream followed by networking at St Lucy’s Cucina, where people can purchase a drink and snacks if they wish. ASC Members receive a free drink coupon.
Building location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/QwoYyDtJGNA4d3HZ6 Getting to UQ information: https://campuses.uq.edu.au/st-lucia
About Joan Leach
I have held the role of Director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science at the ANU (colloquially known as ‘CPAS’) since January 2016. Given the broad nature of CPAS’s research and teaching interests in science communication, public engagement, policy, knowledge brokering, risk, and ethics, I strive to make the Centre a home for inter- and transdisciplinary research and collaboration.
My own research and teaching centres on theories of the public in science communication, language and rhetoric in science (both in public and in technical contexts), and the challenge of ethics in science communication. I’m most interested in sociological accounts of knowledge production and I edited the journal Social Epistemology for 9 years.
I am a past president of Australian Science Communicators, a founding member of the American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and am previous Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science at the Australian Academy of Science.