Research output per year
Research output per year
Director, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS)
Research activity per year
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 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 past Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science at the Australian Academy of Science. Purdue University (USA) awarded me a science laureateship for services to public engagement with science.
I have called Australia home since 2005. I have been privileged to work at a number of world-leading Universities including Imperial College London, the University of Queensland, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Bachelors of Arts, Bachelors of Science honours, Masters of Arts, PhD
Science communication history and theories of the public
Public Argumentation about Controversial Science with special interest in synthetic biology, Quantum technologies, neuroethics, and population health
Responsible Research and Innovation
Social Epistemology; how society makes and communicates knowledge
Rhetorical approaches to scientific argumentation--contemporary and historical
Ethical approaches to Science Communication
Rhetoric of Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Award Date: 5 Jan 1995
Biology, Bachelor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Date: 1 May 1992
English Literature, Bachelor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Date: 1 May 1992
Associate Professor , University of Queensland
2002 → 2015
Senior Lecturer in Science communication, Imperial College London
1996 → 2001
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution
Susila, H., Astuti, R., Leach, J., Pogson, B. & Purwestri, D. Y. A.
1/08/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
Pogson, B., Ankeny, R., Atkin, O., Byrt, C., Furbank, R., Gilliham, M., Leach, J., Mathesius, U., Millar, A., Mortimer, J., Plewa, C., Roy, S., Schwessinger, B., Tucker, M., Whitney, S. & Zhang, D.
1/09/22 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
Ankeny, R., Leach, J., Nicol, D. & Wells, C. A.
1/06/21 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
Leach, J., Lamberts, R. & McKinnon, M.
1/01/17 → 15/11/18
Project: Research