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Contentious Science Media Workshop

[ By James Byrne on May 17, 2013 ]
Dealing with the media can be a challenge. This is especially so if the science involved is of a contentious nature. This session has been specifically designed to assist science professionals (in research, communications or policy) to understand the media process and how to construct clear, consistent messages from plan ... Continue Reading »

Paul Willis – Director

[ By freya on May 15, 2013 ]
Dr Paul Willis is a respected leader in the science community, and takes up his appointment at RiAus as the next step in an impressive career in science. Dr Willis' early interest in dinosaurs and fossils lead him to Sydney University to study zoology and geology, then on to further studies ... Continue Reading »

Bradley Abraham – General Manager

[ By PeterLugg ]
Bradley joins RiAus as a senior executive with significant experience in the not for profit sector. His career started with CPA Australia in the area of small business policy, before he was appointed General Manager of Swimming SA in 1997 leading up to the Sydney Olympics. Approached to take over the SPARC ... Continue Reading »

Diana De Hulsters – Partnerships Manager

[ By James Byrne on May 14, 2013 ]
Diana joined RiAus in May 2013 and brings with her more than two decades of international strategic sales and marketing experience in commercial and not-for-profit organisations. Diana has a global business network and expertise in business association management at executive level. Originally from Belgium, Diana moved to Adelaide in 2002. Past roles ... Continue Reading »

A Week In Science – 10 May 2013

[ By James Byrne on May 10, 2013 ]
https://vimeo.com/65801294 Media coverage of this week’s stories Brain Scans can identify psychopaths even in childhood Article from Daily Mail UK Climate change killed off megafauna Article from The Australian No, really- Don’t shop when you’re hungry Article from Reuters Health DNA reveals that most Europeans are closely ... Continue Reading »

A Week In Science – 26 April 2013

[ By James Byrne on April 26, 2013 ]
http://vimeo.com/64703358 Australia’s Aboriginal population descended from just 1000-2000 original inhabitants Article from ABC Science Asthma worsened by low fibre and high fat diets Article from DailyRx Genital Warts diagnoses drop by 59% Article from Eureka Science News Marijuana pills more effective for pain ... Continue Reading »

Media release – Vaccination Café (23 April 2013)

[ By James Byrne on April 23, 2013 ]
Get your 2013 flu vaccination for just $10 at the first RiAus Vaccination Café. Grab a free coffee or tea and chat with roving scientists to find out more about vaccinations and how the body fights illness and disease. In association with the Australasian Society for Immunology to mark the World ... Continue Reading »

2012

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on December 14, 2012 ]
The festive season is almost upon us. Many cultures around the world have major celebrations around the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and a congruent theme of many of these celebrations is the expression of good will and happiness for others. It’s also a time for reflection on the achievements ... Continue Reading »

On Telly

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on November 28, 2012 ]
As many of you will know, I made something of a dramatic career shift when I took up the job as Director here at RiAus. I’d spent the previous 14 years at the ABC as a science reporter, mostly on TV, on the Catalyst program. But I’m surprised how often ... Continue Reading »

Women in Science: It’s Not Rocket Science

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on November 2, 2012 ]
Later this month, RiAus will hold an event called 'Best of the Best: Women in Science'. The first question this title raises is 'what does it mean to be a woman in science'. My answer is 'I don't know'. I'm not one of them. I'm keenly interested in ... Continue Reading »

Best of the Best: Women in Science

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on September 21, 2012 ]
Three amazing personalities joined RiAus Director Paul Willis on stage to discuss their journeys as professional women in science and engineering. Each is at a different stage in their career, has overcome a range of obstacles and has had considerable success. These champions of science shared their inpsiration on ... Continue Reading »

Peter Yates AM Inaugural Chair

[ By editor on August 28, 2012 ]
Peter Yates is Chair of RiAus, the Australian Science Media Centre and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He is also Chair of the Peony Capital General Partnership, the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (Victoria) and a Director of Oceania Capital Partners Limited and MOKO.mobi. From ... Continue Reading »

The Hon Mike Rann CNZM

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on August 17, 2012 ]
Mike Rann was Premier of South Australia for nine and a half years and served for 26 years in the South Australian Parliament. While Premier he was also Minister for Economic Development, Minister for the Arts, Australia's first Minister for Social Inclusion and Australia's – and one of the world's ... Continue Reading »

Can you Sci-ku? (10 August 2012)

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on August 10, 2012 ]
RiAus is setting a challenge to all Australians - young and old - to take part in its 3rd Annual Sci-ku Poetry Competition. What is a Sci-ku? “A Sci-ku is a short three-line poem about science,” said competition co-ordinator, Kiran Shettigara. “Although it is inspired by the Japanese poetry form: ... Continue Reading »

Can you Sci-ku?

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on July 27, 2012 ]
Well Glenn McGrath can! As Ambassador for the 2012 Australian Year of the Farmer, Glenn wrote a sci-ku (a science haiku) in celebration of our theme of agriculture and farming. Fruitful Aussie land Full of stories, resources Year of the Farmer by Glenn McGrath View ... Continue Reading »

A piece of heritage

[ By freya on June 21, 2012 ]
Who has the right to own a piece of heritage? Should the common heritage of all of us be held in some form of public trust or do we as individuals have the right to privately own heritage items? And if we do have rights of ownership, should there be ... Continue Reading »

A successful week in science

[ By freya on June 13, 2012 ]
Firstly, I’ve been absent from this blog for the last couple of weeks so an apology is in order to regular readers. One week I was crook with one of those nasty little lurgies that are going around at the moment and the next week I was up to my ... Continue Reading »

What states can do: Promoting science

[ By freya on May 25, 2012 ]
Governments, educationalists and business leaders around the world are keen to encourage young people to embrace science in school, at university and in their future careers. In Australia, a lack of interest in studying science in schools has been of real and growing concern. Many of the best careers of the ... Continue Reading »

The Story of the Adelaide Stock Exchange

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on May 1, 2012 ]
Author and former Adelaide Stock Exchange broker Ron Gibbs talks about the inception of the Adelaide Stock Exchange over a century ago, the quirky habits and ways of brokers, beauty of the building and finally the transformation to the home of RiAus. http://vimeo.com/41335881 You can come and experience the uniqueness of The ... Continue Reading »

The Science Exchange: An historic tour

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on March 21, 2012 ]
We may be new, but there is more history than you know behind the Science Exchange! Before becoming the home of RiAus, it had an exciting history as the Adelaide Stock Exchange. Kay Bennetts led guided tours every Friday in May. We stepped back in time to imagine what is ... Continue Reading »

The hidden heat of climate science – By Paul Willis

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on February 22, 2012 ]
I had something of a revelation last week, an explanation for a set of facts that didn’t come together quite the way I’d hoped. In hindsight, I can see that this was a few pieces of a puzzle that didn’t really fit the picture as I saw it but I’d ... Continue Reading »

Picking sides

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on February 8, 2012 ]
At the core of so many issues confronting us today is a foundation of science and, all too often, there is a debate about the nature of that science. For the general population this presents a puzzling dilemma; how do you pick the right side in a science debate? This ... Continue Reading »

It’s official – RiAus changes lives!

[ By freya on November 7, 2011 ]
During its first two years of existence, RiAus has touched many hearts. RiAus is a venue for science lovers to gather for events made vibrant by the passion and knowledge of experts. With a sparkling program of science activities, RiAus brings like-minded people together to hear and talk about the thing ... Continue Reading »

RiAus Second Birthday Celebration Competition winners announced

[ By freya on November 4, 2011 ]
How has RiAus changed your life? This was the question RiAus asked during its Second Birthday Celebration Competition. RiAus opened its doors on 8 October 2009. Two years later, the science-communications organisation is a vibrant cultural hub. For the month of October 2011, members of the RiAus community were asked to tell ... Continue Reading »

Word on the street at the Festival of Ideas

[ By freya on October 6, 2011 ]
RiAus is participating at the Festival of Ideas with a bunch of great talks about battling uncertainty with science. (We’re also celebrating our birthday on Saturday, but that’s not what this blog post is about.) Two artists have put their heads together and come up with the fabulous idea ... Continue Reading »

Engaging the young

[ By freya on September 28, 2011 ]
At RiAus, we are all about science engagement. It’s not enough these days to simply take a scientist, put them on a podium and let them talk about their favourite bit of science. We need to connect with the audience, engage with the community, in ways that provide access to ... Continue Reading »

Bright Young Scientists

[ By freya on September 14, 2011 ]
The Science Exchange is destined to be many things, many of which would not have been in the minds of the original architects when the building was built in 1901. Originally it was the Stock Exchange for Adelaide with offices for various traders and a clubroom in the basement where ... Continue Reading »

Welcome to a Spring full of science

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on September 9, 2011 ]
It’s springtime and Adelaide warms and stretches after the chill of a Winter slumber.  Time to engage that brain and get involved in some of our great activities over the next few months! Don’t miss our new exhibition in the FutureSpace Gallery.  Called Energy Landscapes: the new frontier, it ... Continue Reading »

Science behind the headlines: Beyond seven billion

[ By freya on September 2, 2011 ]
As the human population swells to over seven billion, are we in danger of permanently depleting the Earth's resources? What does the future hold for humans as a species? At our first Science behind the headlines event, Paul Willis hosted a discussion on the science of population growth. He ... Continue Reading »

Acceptance or belief?

[ By freya on August 10, 2011 ]
A couple of weeks back I commented on a graph plotting acceptance of evolution against average individual wealth. I’ve had a few comments about my use of language in that blog. The graph itself refers to ‘Belief in Evolution’ but in the text I use the term ‘acceptance ... Continue Reading »

Why do we do it?

[ By freya on August 3, 2011 ]
I’ve touched on this theme in previous blogs: why do we go out there and talk science to the world? The truth is there are several reasons why it’s important to not only communicate science but to engage the general public in the conversations of science. But I’d ... Continue Reading »

Judging Time

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on July 20, 2011 ]
Last weekend was my first experience as a judge on the SCINEMA science film-making competition. I’m always uncomfortable in the position of a judge on any competition because invariably you are making choices between several high-quality entrants based on almost trivial differences between them. And this years’ SCINEMA ... Continue Reading »

100 days

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on July 13, 2011 ]
Although I’ve not sat down with a calendar to mark the exact date, this week represents my first 100 days as Director; a time when politicians mark what they have discovered at the start of their tenure.  So let me briefly present a review of my first 100 days at ... Continue Reading »

Reaching out

[ By editor on July 6, 2011 ]
Our mission here in the centre of Adelaide is to engage people in science, not only across Australia, but around the world. And last week, we demonstrated just how effectively we can meet that brief.  Last Tuesday was Tau Day (Tau being the irrational number generated by dividing ... Continue Reading »

How time flies!

[ By Petra Dzurovcinova on June 29, 2011 ]
Week 8!  I’ve been here at RiAus for seven weeks and only now getting around to writing my first blog!  I do hope you don’t think it remiss of me for not having written earlier but, as you can well imagine, I’ve been extremely busy.  Steep learning curve and all ... Continue Reading »

Business Leaders Acknowledged (13 June 2011) – The Sydney Morning Herald

[ By freya on June 13, 2011 ]
A slew of high-profile business leaders have featured in the Queen's Birthday honours this year for services to commerce, including Commonwealth Bank's long-serving former chairman, John Schubert. The list includes some who weathered the global financial crisis, such as Trevor Rowe, the chairman of troubled Brisbane toll-road company BrisConnections, and Barbara ... Continue Reading »
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