117. Interview with science writer and performer Dr Phil Dooley

Welcome to Season 16 of Let’s Talk SciComm. We are thrilled to be launching our next season and have a great selection of episodes in store for you to enjoy during the rest of 2025.

We can’t think of any better way to launch the season than a conversation with Dr Phil Dooley. Phil is an extremely talented science communicator who wears many hats: he’s a science writer, presenter, comedian, performer, musician, video-maker and trainer. He's worked on YouTube videos that got hundreds of thousands of hits, tweets that saw millions of impressions, press releases that went international, school workshops for thousands of students and science pub nights that had crowds cheering for more.

Phil has a PhD in laser physics and is National President of Australian Science Communicators. Phil Up On Science partners and clients have included Australian Institute of Physics, Academy of Science, Australian Society for Medical Research, Inspiring Australia, National Science Week, Cosmos Magazine, Nature Publishing Group, Geosciences Australia, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society, University of Adelaide, Flinders University, UniSA, Sustainable Stand Up and more.

You’re going to love hearing about Phil’s creative and dynamic approach to sharing science with a whole heap of different audiences. 

You can follow Phil and learn more about his work here: 

• https://philuponscience.com.au/ 

• https://www.youtube.com/philuponscience

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-dooley-0963366/ 

• https://bsky.app/profile/philuponscience.bsky.social 

• https://physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/news.php 

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Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/z6a2