The Award Lectures 2010

Each year the British Science Association honours five outstanding young communicators with the opportunity to present a prestigious Award Lecture at the British Science Festival. 

The Award Lectures are a rare opportunity to honour five professional scientists or engineers in the early stages of their career, who show outstanding skills in communication to a non-specialist audience.

The Award Lectures aim to promote open and informed discussion on issues involving science and actively encourage young scientists to explore the social aspects of their research, providing them with reward and recognition for doing so.

The Lectures are a very popular component of the Festival programme with an extremely broad audience ranging from school groups and interested publics to retired academics and scientists from a wide range of disciplines.

Congratulations to our Award Lecturers for 2010

The Joseph Lister Award Lecture (supported by SAGE)
Professor Nick Lee, Aston University
Can marketers control your mind? Facts and fiction about Neuromarketing and the 'Buy button' in your brain
Tuesday 14th September, 12pm Aston University

Charles Darwin Award Lecture
Dr Jessica Grahn, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Hit me with your rhythm schtick: the connection between music, movement and the brain 
Wednesday 15th September, 12pm Aston University

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture (supported by Goodrich)
Dr Mark Young, Brunel University
Letting George do it: are we overautomating our lives?
Thursday 16th September, 12pm Aston University

Charles Lyell Award Lecture
Dr Sarah Bell, University College London
Watering thirsty cities 
Friday 17th September, 12pm Aston University

Lord Kelvin Award Lecture
Suzie Sheehy, John Adams Institute
for Accelerator Science
The Big Bang dilemma
Saturday 18th September, 12pm Aston University