Tanya Dodgen

Queensland University of Technology | QUT · School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Virtual reality (VR) technology is an emerging tool that is supporting the connection between conservation research and public engagement with environmental issues. The use of VR in ecology consists of interviewing diverse groups of people while they are immersed within a virtual ecosystem to produce better information than more traditional surveys...

Scientific understanding is often settled within a discipline before it reaches a broader social understanding and acceptance. Contemporary examples include vaccination, evolution and human- caused global warming. Universities and researchers can play an essential role in raising public levels of scientific literacy about these topics by creating a...

Tube formation (tubulogenesis) is a key developmental process that produces structures such as the vascular system and the embryonic neural tube. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of tube formation is necessary for identifying and treating genetic disorders that cause birth defects due to errors in tube formation. Our lab uses eggshell struct...