Professor Sujatha Raman

UNESCO Chair-holder in Science Communication for the Public Good , Australian National University

Biography

Professor Sujatha Raman is Director of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) and UNESCO Chair-holder in Science Communication for the Public Good at the ANU. She is interested in how wide-ranging concerns of public interest can be brought to bear on specialised questions in research, innovation and governance through transdisciplinary collaboration and ECR mentorship. Spanning science and technology studies (STS), science communication and science-policy studies, her publications grapple with dilemmas around sustainability, energy transitions, antimicrobial resistance and emerging technologies.

Raman is a member of the Technical and Social Committee for the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials, a global research consortium led by Imperial College London with ANU, UBC Vancouver, University of Witwatersrand and UC Berkeley as partners. She leads a foundational project for the Centre exploring ways to integrate social, environmental, community and technical perspectives in research on improving material supply and use practices.