Joan Leach

Joan Leach is a professor and Director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University. She holds degrees in arts, science, and communication-related fields, and her research focuses on science communication, public engagement, rhetoric, ethics, and the relationship between knowledge and society. She has previously held academic roles at Imperial College London, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Queensland.

Leach is the author, co-author, and editor of works including An Ethics of Science Communication, Rhetorical Questions of Health and Medicine, and Communicating Science: A Global Perspective. She also contributed to Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities, published by MIT Press in 2021.