User:Cobi Smith

Affiliations



 * Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus)
 * Australian National University's Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

I work on science in society projects, based at RiAus, working with the South Australian Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology and the Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research on the Inspiring Australia initiative.

I'm organing events about policy & public understanding of synthetic biology in Australia, so I'm interested in contributing to things related to policy/open access/pubic awareness/citizen science, such as discussed at syntheticbiology.org.

Education

 * PhD candidate at ANU in science communication

Research interests

 * 1) Public participation in science policy;
 * 2) Deliberative democracy;
 * 3) Genomics, systems and networks; bioethics; environmental security.

You can get a good sense of my research interests through my citeulike library.

Publications

 * 1) Book1 isbn=9781861684240
 * 2) Book2 isbn=9781861684233
 * 3) Book3 isbn=9781861684196

Useful links

 * Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages