Professor Rob Morrison
Professorial Fellow
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
Rob Morrison is a freelance science communicator and broadcaster. His more than 50 books on science include A Field Guide to the Tracks and Traces of Australian Animals, the first on this topic, which led to his role as an expert witness in the Lindy Chamberlain trials. He was Dept Head of Science at Sturt CAE and later Flinders University where he lectured for 35 years. He was also a science and environment broadcaster for forty five years, and co-hosted the international program Curiosity Show, which won many awards and screened in 14 countries. He has been science reporter and producer for Channel Ten TV News and the Australia Network's Nexus program, the writer and editor of regular columns in various journals and delivered many talks for the ABC Science Unit. He has won many national and international awards for writing and broadcasting, including two Eureka Prizes. He has been the President of many scientific and conservation organizations including Adelaide and Monarto Zoos, and SciWorld. He was awarded the Order of Australia for Science education and conservation and was the Senior Australian of the Year for South Australia in 2008
BSC (Hons); PhD; Post-doctoral Fellow, Edinburgh University
2025 Winner, Wildlife Section, Sixteenth Solar Art Prize (Silver jewelry); 2018 Patron, Adelaide Hills Science Hub (Inspiring Australia); 2017 Lifetime Fellow, Nature Foundation SA; 2017 Honorary Life Membership, Australian Science Communicators; 2008 Senior Australian of the Year for SA; 2007 The Australian Government Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science; 2006 Honorary life Membership, Royal Zoological Society of SA; 2005 Inaugural winner of Premier's Award for Excellence in Science Communication; Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM); 2004-2017 Patron of National Science Week SA; 2003 Honorary Research Associate, Royal Zoological society of SA; 2002 Australian skeptics Eureka Prize for Critical Thinking; 1995 Archbishop of Adelaide Media Citation (TV); 1994 Michael Daley award for Science Journalism; 1989 High Commendation Australian Book Publisher's Assocn; 1982 Rigby Anniversary Literary Competition Prize, Adelaide Festival of Arts; 1972 Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship.
Shared awards: 1985 Silver medal, International Film and Television Festival, New York; 1983 Prix Jeunesse international Prize for Television for Young people; 1982 Gold Penguin Award, Television society of Australia, 1981 Gold penguin Award, Television Society of Australia.
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