The ASC Canberra committee aims to provide useful, thought-provoking and fun events, short courses and support to local ASC members. We also provide input to the national activities.

Branch committee

The 2025 ACT branch committee is:

• President: Isabella Robinson
• Vice-President / Secretary: Camille Thomson
• Treasurer: Stuart McMillen
• General Committee Members: Toss Gascoigne, Olivia Congdon, Tamara Coppa, Jillian Matthews

Above: the 2025 ASC ACT Branch committee. Left to right: Toss Gascoigne, Tamara Coppa, Camille Thomson, Stuart McMillen, Olivia Congdon, Isabella Robinson, Jillian Matthews

Some of our popular events have included:

• Cartoons, Science and Politics – Communicating Big Ideas
• Regular networking nights with ASC members
• The Science of Beer
• Careers in Research: Is Australia producing too many PhDs? – Panel discussion
• MayDay! Re-examing Canberra’s deadliest plane crash – National Science Week
• Producing great podcasts – workshop
• Big Snapshot of Australian Science Engagement! (on behalf of national ASC project team)Clean Energy Future: Using market research to inform strategy
• Communicating the “State of the environment”
• Are you π-curious?
• CSI vs Real Forensic Science
• Science Communicators: where would science be without them?
• Improving your writing: how to edit your own work
• Coffee and Connections

Keep up to date with upcoming events:

• We regularly email our members – make sure your details are up to date!
• Facebook Page
• ACT events listings and posts
• ACT Inspiring Australia website (list of science based events in the Canberra region)

Contact us:

For more information on events, interest in joining our committee, or to suggest an event you would like to see run in the ACT, please email us at asccanberra@gmail.com – we always welcome your comments.

• Email the Canberra committee or
• Like us at our Facebook Page