The Award Lectures 2009

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. This year the Festival will be in Surrey, from 5 –10 September 2009.

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.

Find out the 2009 Award Lecture winners!