12 SciComms champions from across Australia have been announced as the FameLab Australia 2025 Finalists.
Supported by Community Broadcasting Foundation, Foundation for the WA Museum works with community broadcasters from around Australia to train and support emerging science communicators.
“Every state and territory was represented in FameLab this year, enabling FameLab to really achieve its ambitions of uncovering, training and showcasing the best new voices in science across Australia” says Wayne Lubbe, the Foundation for the WA Museum’s FameLab Project Manager
“Excellent science communications skills are essential to engage the general public and raise awareness of the cutting-edge science research being done in our country, and FameLab provides early career researchers with those skills. Through FameLab, inspiring young scientists from a diverse range of fields share their passion for solving some of our biggest challenges, and demonstrate the importance and impact of the work they do. FameLab is an ideal platform linking our broader community with science in highly engaging, easy-to-understand, and entertaining presentations, while presenting our youth with brilliant new role models from the world of STEM. Our 12 finalists have excelled in their ability to embrace the extensive science communication training provided, and convert that training into compelling science storytelling. FameLab has grown steadily to become the essential science communication training program and competition in Australia” says Lubbe.
FameLab is the world’s leading public-facing science communication competition and training program, created by Cheltenham Festivals (UK). Since 2007, the competition has gone global in over 40 countries, with more than 40,000 scientists participating to date. FameLab is recognised as being a powerful means to identifying and nurturing new voices in science, with previous alumni embarking on high-profile careers in science communication and the media.