The British Science Festival      Award Lectures

 

Each year the Award Lectures offer 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.

Before submitting a nomination please consider the following questions:

• Is the nominee's research cutting edge?
• Will the research have an interesting societal impact?
• Can the nominee clearly communicate their research to a lay audience?

If you would like to nominate a professional scientist or engineer for an award lecture for 2013, please contact the Festival Team.

 

Congratulations to our Award Lecturers for 2011

 

Lord Kelvin- Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Andrew Pontzen- Turn up the Gas: How to Heat Dark Matter

 

Joseph Lister- Social Sciences

Alex Braithwaite- Measuring the threat of terrorism

 

Charles Lyell- Environmental Sciences

Deborah Harvey- Why ginger takes the biscuit in helping save the stag beetle.

 

Charles Darwin- Agricultural, Biological and Medical Sciences

Laura Waters-  Do we still need animal testing to make our drugs safe?

 

 

Isambard Kingdom Brunel-  Engineering, Technology and Industry

Akram Alomainy- The Magic of Harry Potter! Can We Make Cloaking a Reality?