Rod Lamberts

Dr Rod Lamberts is the Associate Director, Sciecne Education at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at the Australian National University and a former National President of the Australian Science Communicators. He has more than 25 years’ experience as a science communication lecturer, practitioner, commentator and researcher. Rod has provided science communication advice to a wide variety of private and public science-related agencies in Australia and overseas (including the CSIRO, UNESCO & the DIIS) and is a regular public commentator on science, science communication, and science and public policy in Australia. His current professional pursuits focus on: 

• the role of expertise, public intellectualism and science communication in affecting social change
• conducting large scale national public surveys of beliefs and attitudes to science and scientists
• the interaction of perceptions of risk and ethics in science and science communication

Rod also frequently comments and interprets science on national radio shows, has written numerous public commentary pieces for sites like The Conversation, and is co-creator of The Wholesome Show podcast.

BA(hons) Anthropology (ANU), PG Diploma Applied Psychology (Uni Canb), PhD (ANU)

• Science communication and public intellectualism/ activism
• Science, science communication and ethics
• Risk & crisis perception and communication