Sujatha Raman
Director and UNESCO Chair in Science Communication for the Public Good , Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
Sujatha Raman is Director of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at the Australian National University. Supported by CPAS, she leads the UNESCO Chair in Science Communication for the Public Good. She is interested in collaborative ways to integrate public interest concerns around equity and sustainability into the conduct, communication and governance of science and innovation.
Sessions
The Idea of Cultured Science in Science Communication
PCST Symposium 2025 Tokyo / Japan SciCom Forum 2025
There is a familiar story we tell about science communication as culturing science by making specialist knowledge engaging to laypersons or by advancing a wider social conversation about critical issues missing in conventional scientific accounts. In this talk, I want to explore another story of science communication learning to notice, be inspired by and advancing cases of cultured science. Drawing on research at the ANU Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) and collaboration with Shiga University, I will illustrate this idea with examples of scientists advocating for changing how science is done in order to tackle our shared planetary crises.