Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

So you are the audience research manager at SciTech.

a PhD student at the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU, and Adjunct Research Fellow in Science Communication at UWA.

That's many hats.

Can you tell us a little bit about all your roles within these places?

A really important part of inclusion is, as you said, understanding your audience, understanding their needs, but also understanding their assets.

As I said earlier, what knowledge do they already have? Dr.

Karina Judge, who recently completed her PhD at the Australian National University through the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.

looked at exactly that, what is inclusive science communication? And one of her main conclusions was that inclusive science communication needs to not only include demographic inclusion, which is all your demographic variables and characteristics, but also epistemic inclusion, which recognizes people have different ways of producing knowledge and different definitions of what counts as science.