Personal details
- Name
- Dr Michelle Riedlinger
- Position(s)
- Senior Lecturer
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Communication - Phone
- +61 7 3138 8163
- michelle.riedlinger@qut.edu.au
- Location
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- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Dr of Philosophy (Communication) (University of Queensland)
- Professional memberships
and associations Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Global Network, Secretary
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
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).
Publications
- Gascoigne T, Schiele B, Leach J, Riedlinger M, Lewenstein B, Massarani L, Broks P, (2020) Communicating Science: A Global Perspective, ANU Press
- Riedlinger M, Schiele A, Barata G, (2020) Canada: One country, two cultures: Two routes to science communication, Communicating Science: A Global Perspective p175-204
- Metcalfe J, Riedlinger M, (2020) Public understanding of science: Popularisation, perceptions and publics, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science p32-46
- 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
- Makmillen S, Riedlinger M, (2020) Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation, Text and Talk
- 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
- 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 p51-63
- 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 p431-437
- 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 p588-614
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.