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Dr Lindy Orthia is…
The survivor of an interesting life A winner of awards and prizes Passionate about teaching Prolific in authoring research writings and presentations Committed to mentoring student research and student...
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Career highlights
Some highlights of my academic career at the time of launching this site. See the pages on this site for details. Won a top teaching award ANU Colleges of Science Award for Teaching Excellence 2012...
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Philanthropic endowment launched
Today the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science Endowment went live through ANU Philanthropy. I set up this endowment with $4000, the majority of my winnings for my 2012...
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Won – Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence
Today I was told that I have won a 2013 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. I was nominated last year on the basis of my Colleges of Science Award for Teaching Excellence. The prize is...
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New journal paper co-authored with undergrad student
Today a journal paper I co-authored with former undergraduate student Naomi Shadbolt about a SCOM3003 Special Topics in Science Communication research project she conducted in 2011 was accepted for...
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Interview about Doctor Who rebroadcast on The Science Show
Last year Ginger Gorman of local Canberra ABC radio 666 interviewed me about science in Doctor Who and my Doctor Who research on her program ‘Emporium’. An edited version of that interview was today...
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Doctor Who and Race – Don’t judge till it’s published
The forthcoming book I have edited, Doctor Who and Race, which will be published in July, has received a lot of attention in the media and on blogs this week. Almost all that attention can be sourced...
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Doctor Who and Race now published
My first edited book, Doctor Who and Race, was published last week by Intellect books. The book includes 22 essays by 23 contributors including myself. There are two kinds of essays – short ones in the...
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Queer scientists in television science fiction
Republished blog post, first posted at Diffusion in January 2010. Edited only to update some key dates and references, so the content reflects the time. Posted for archival purposes. The UK’s public...
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Another undergraduate-driven study accepted for journal publication
In 2012 I co-supervised then-undergradute student Amy Dobos in a research project examining the effectiveness of digitally-produced pictures for communicating about Alzheimer’s disease research (see...
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I have a post-nominal…
As of today I am recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. This allows me to add the post-nominal SFHEA to my name. The recognition comes for my teaching work, including...
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Honours student’s study on science theatre now published
In 2011 I co-supervised Martina Donkers in an innovative honours project in which she put on a production of the play A Number by renowned English playwright Caryl Churchill, then undertook survey and...
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Viewers learn about the Nature of Science from The Big Bang Theory
In a new paper I co-authored with my PhD student Rashel Li, we show that viewers of The Big Bang Theory learn about aspects of the nature of science from the sitcom. The paper was published in the...
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Research t-shirts
I’ve started an addictive new hobby – making designs for t-shirts (or coffee mugs, notebooks, throw cushions, and more) to celebrate my academic publications. The fantastic platform Redbubble allows...
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What’s wrong with talking about the Scientific Revolution? Let me tell you…
Today I published in Minerva a review paper examining the reception of a classic 1993 history of science paper by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams that proposed a new big picture of the history of...
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First article for The Conversation: Doctor Who’s female scientists through time
Today marks a significant event in any academic’s life – my first article for The Conversation. Even more significant for a science communication academic who wants to practice what she preaches....
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And another
And my second post for The Conversation concerns similarities between this year’s federal election issues and the concerns of Sydney citizens writing into the Sydney Gazette in 1803 and 1804....
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Tips for effective #scicomm
Lindy Orthia and Rachel Morgain How do you get people to care about your science? Is anybody listening? Science communication is more than great charisma or fun writing. Context matters. So we produced...
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Lovely article on the origins of sci com in C18 France
Check out this lovely article in Smithsonian Mag by Lorraine Boissoneault, featuring interviews with me and Professor Michael Lynn.
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Like it or not, popular fiction shapes policy debates In 2017, Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel proposed all leaders be required to read science fiction to help them understand the past and...
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