Special Feature
AMOS 2015 guest speakers Robyn Williams AM
Rod Lamberts
Moderator for the public forum, Tuesday 14 July, 6:00 p.m.
Communications Workshop, Friday 17 July, 7:00 a.m.
Robyn Williams is a science journalist and a long-serving presenter on Radio National, most notably with the Science Show (since 1975), who has also conducted countless interviews with scientists for ABC TV programs. In 1993 he was the first journalist elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 1988, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the Universities of Sydney, Macquarie and Deakin. The ANU awarded him a Doctorate of Law, and he is a Visiting Professor at the University of NSW and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland. Robyn was appointed AM in the 1988 Australian Bicentenary Honours list. He was elected a National Living Treasure by the National Trust in 1987 and has a star named after him by the Sydney Observatory. Robyn has authored a number of books. Future Perfect focuses on cities, transport, communication, education and science. Although Robyn graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in England, he has also made a name for himself as an actor, with guest appearances in The Goodies, Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Dr. Who.
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Dr. Rod Lamberts is Deputy Director of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at the Australian National University (ANU), a founding partner of the Ångstrom Group, and a former National President of the Australian Science Communicators (retired injured in 2013). He has more than 18 years experience as a science communication practitioner, facilitator and researcher and has at least once been referred to as an expert of international standing in the field. 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 & APPEA) and is a regular public commentator on science, science communication, and science and public policy. When not lurking at the ANU, he can be heard on ABC RN Drive’s Research Filter or found regaling people as the co-host of the irreverent theme-driven (and sometimes evidenced-based) chat show Kindathinky (kindathinky. com).