Dr Michelle Riedlinger
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Michelle Riedlinger joined QUT's School of Communication in July 2020. Her career spans the research and practical sides of communication.
Her research interests include online communication of environmental, agricultural and health research, emerging roles for “alternative” science communicators, online advocacy and public engagement in science. Her research is informed by theories of media, cultural approaches to science, social identity, and pragmatic linguistics. She is a co-investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded project investigating the public circulation of health research.
Michelle has worked as a science communication practitioner for over 25 years. As a communication consultant, she has worked on projects focussed on climate variability, dryland salinity, ecology, catchment management, and river health. She has facilitated over two hundred training workshops for researchers in media skills, presentation skills, professional writing, communication planning, and poster design.
Michelle is the Secretary for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Global Network, a member of the Executive of the Australian Science Communicators (ASC), and a Board member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC).
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Qualifications
- Dr of Philosophy (Communication) (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Australian Science Communicators (ASC), Executive
Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC), Board member
International Communication Association (ICA), member
International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), member
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia, member
Selected publications
- Gascoigne T, Schiele B, Leach J, Riedlinger M, Lewenstein B, Massarani L, Broks P, (2020) Communicating Science: A Global Perspective, ANU Press.
- Fleerackers A, Riedlinger M, Moorhead L, Ahmed R, Alperin J, (2021) Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets, Health Communication.
- Makmillen S, Riedlinger M, (2021) Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation, Text and Talk, 41 (2), pp. 165-185.
- Metcalfe J, Riedlinger M, (2020) Public understanding of science: Popularisation, perceptions and publics. In DR Gruber & LC Olman, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science, Routledge, pp. 32-46.
- Fahnrich B, Riedlinger M, Weitkamp E, (2020) Activists as 'alternative' science communicators - Exploring the facets of science communication in societal contexts, Journal of Science Communication, 19 (6).
- Riedlinger M, Metcalfe J, Baram-Tsabari A, Entradas M, Joubert M, Massarani L, (2019) Telling stories in science communication: Case studies of scholar-practitioner collaboration, Journal of Science Communication, 18 (5).
- Riedlinger M, Barata G, Schiele A, (2019) The landscape of science communication in contemporary Canada: A focus on Anglophone actors and networks, Cultures of Science, 2 (1), pp. 51-63.
- Riedlinger M, Chapman C, Mitchell P, (2019) Location awareness and geodata sharing practices of Australian smartphone users.
- Davis L, Fahnrich B, Nepote A, Riedlinger M, Trench B, (2018) Environmental communication and science communication-conversations, connections and collaborations, Environmental Communication, 12 (4), pp. 431-437.
- Riedlinger M, Rea J, (2015) Discourse ecology and knowledge niches: Negotiating the risks of radiation in online Canadian forums, post-Fukushima, Science, Technology, & Human Values, 40 (4), pp. 588-614.
QUT ePrints
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