Science Gallery Melbourne

Xiao Zhu and her childhood pets were birds of a feather, until something went terribly wrong.

This podcast was created as part of the 2020 Journalism program at University of Melbourne, supervised by Louisa Lim. Students responded to themes in MENTAL, Science Gallery Melbourne's exhibition that is a welcoming place to confront stereotypes and social bias about mental health. Content deals directly and indirectly with a range of mental health issues. Listener discretion is advised.

Fandom is a feminist issue. From hoardes of fans at Beatles concerts to K-pop lovers everywhere, teenage girls are still labelled hysterical for their intense adoration of a pop group or celebrity. Why are young women still derided for their passion? Fia Walsh investigates.

This podcast was created as part of the 2020 Journalism program at University of Melbourne, supervised by Louisa Lim. Students responded to themes in MENTAL, Science Gallery Melbourne's exhibition that is a welcoming place to confront stereotypes and social bias about mental health. Content deals directly and indirectly with a range of mental health issues. Listener discretion is advised.

Photograph of Lisa Filitonga courtesy of production team.

Tilly Boleyn reveals the second full edition of Phone Tag.

Contributions from Zena Cumpston, Adam Grodeck, Natasha Mitchell and Alan Duffy are reimagined with music from Sound of Picture, Only the Ghosts, Jannah Quill and Qubodup. Our theme music is by Podington Bear.

Artwork by Ashley Ronning.

Produced and edited by Claire Farrugia and Susie Anderson.

More about Phone Tag.

The image of you looking up travels out forever.

-

More about Phone Tag.

-

Associate Professor Duffy is an astrophysicist at Swinburne University who creates baby universes on the nation’s most powerful supercomputers to understand how galaxies like our Milky Way form and grow within vast halos of invisible dark matter that hold it together. He is attempting to find this dark matter as part of SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere. When not exploring a simulated universe he is trying to explain ours in schools across the country or in the media as a regular on ABC Breakfast TV, Ten’s The Project and Triple J Hack.

Remember before?

-

More about Phone Tag.

-

Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning ABC broadcaster and has presented flagship programs including the national, daily morning show, Life Matters (2012-16), and was founding presenter & producer of All in the Mind (2002-12), on ABC Radio National. She hosts ABC RN's new culture, science, and technology program, Science Friction. She served as a board member and vice president of the World Federation of Science Journalists, and has received accolades internationally, including the prestigious MIT Knight Fellowship and Grand Prize and four Gold World Medals at the New York Radio Festivals. She is on the Executive Advisory board of Women in Science Australia. Natasha has an engineering degree from Monash University, and a postgraduate diploma in science communication from ANU.

A lot of worthwhile things contain an element of risk.

-

More about Phone Tag

-

Adam Grodeck describes himself as a starry-eyed space nerd, with a keen curiosity for how things work, from why the sky is blue to how a light bulb glows. He is a mediator for Science Gallery who graduated The University of Melbourne in 2017 with a major in Mathematical Physics.

Feedback is a gift.

-

More about Phone Tag.

-

Zena Cumpston is a Barkindji woman who is passionate about all aspects of representation in relation to First Peoples. She currently works as a Research Fellow in Urban Environments at the Clean Air Urban Landscapes Hub at the University of Melbourne, working across several projects related to Koorie History, sustainability, ecology and biodiversity. Her most recent project was as lead researcher, co-producer and co-designer of The Living Pavilion, an installation which featured 40,000 Kulin Nation plants. Ms Cumpston is interested in exploring the cultural contexts of indigenous plants and communicating the intricate knowledge systems and custodianship.

Tilly Boleyn reveals the first full edition of Phone Tag. 

Contributions from Ryan Jefferies, George Goodnow, Jess Vovers and Alicia Sometimes are interspersed with music by Podington Bear and Justin Tam.

Artwork by Ashley Ronning. 

Produced and edited by Claire Farrugia and Susie Anderson.

With thanks to the entire Science Gallery Melbourne team for their support on this project.

We'll be back soon with more.

Gravity and weight are not the same thing.

-

More about Phone Tag.

-

Alicia Sometimes is a writer and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word and poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Alicia is one-sixth of the ABC podcast, The Outer Sanctum. Her written pieces have been in Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Science Writing, New Matilda, The Age and many more. In 2014 she was a Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. Alicia is passionate about arts and science. She is director and co-writer of two art/science planetarium shows, the latest being Particle/Wave that enjoyed a sell-out season during the 2018 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

You scream out of screens at me.

-

More about Phone Tag.

-

Jess Vovers is a PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Melbourne, looking at sustainable solvents for pharmaceutical applications. Jess has lived in the US, Cameroon, Thailand and Japan and has mostly settled here at Melbourne, while studying for her MEng, BSci and DipLang. She pursues her passion for diversity in STEM through public engagements, and has spoken for events like Pause Fest, TEDx, and GirledWorld. She is also a tutor and mentor.