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Please do come along to the events below on 4 December - attendance is free and you'll meet influential broadcasters and writers who are committed to increasing science output on television. The 2006 PAWS Seminar, 'Science Outside the Box' will again bring together key individuals from the worlds of science, engineering, industry, broadcasting, scriptwriting, TV drama development, science policy and education but with a broadened agenda - to explore new roles for science in non-science TV genres such as Sport, the Natural World, Current Affairs as well as Drama. In the first session, 'Opening new windows on science and technology' SET professionals will explore the contribution that technology is making to areas as diverse as healthcare, computer forensics and fraud, sporting performance and weather research and analysis, including the prediction of extreme phenomena such as tsunamis. In the second session 'Don't scare the viewers.its science!', dramatists, writers, producers and researchers will look at current TV output and explore how opportunities can be created for new programming to reflect the way in which science and technology permeate into every aspect of life. The Seminar is aimed at SET professionals, scriptwriters, dramatists, broadcasters, television writers and producers, social scientists, educationalists, representatives from industry, learned societies and all those interested in science communication. Come and hear how Stephen Smith (the BBC Newsnight Culture Correspondent) is shaping up in physics - to test why young people may not be switched on to science, he's currently working through a Physics A' level! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6081074.stm Nick Ross is guest speaker at the Awards Evening which also has screenings of the candidate programmes for the Best International TV Drama/Docudrama and a panel discussion on how TV and AV media should respond to the communications revolution. Promises to be quite an interesting afternoon and evening! (see below for full content) Many thanks Juliet Upton For PAWS Window on Science Awards Day Monday 4 December 2006: 14.00 - 17.30 at The IET, Savoy Place, London WC2 You are warmly invited to: 'Science Outside the Box' An Afternoon Seminar on new TV Opportunities for Science and Technology in Sport, Drama, the Natural World and Current Affairs 13.30 Registration 14. 00 Welcome and Introduction Dr Andrew Millington, PAWS Director, Omni Communications 14.15 Keynote Talk 14. 25 Session One Opening New Windows on Science and Technology Susan Rae (Chair) Broadcaster Professor Penny Duquenoy, School of Computing Science, Middlesex University Dr David James Lecturer, Sports Engineering, Sheffield University Speaker: tbc Speaker: tbc Dr Glyn Hayes Chair, BCS Health and Informatics Forum 15. 45 Coffee 16. 05 Session Two Don't scare the viewers. it's science! Professor Teresa Rees CBE (Chair) School of Social Science, Cardiff University Stuart Carter Managing Director & Executive Producer, Pioneer Productions Deborah Cook Scriptwriter, Television Drama Series Liz Whitelegg Senior Lecturer in Science Education, Science Faculty, The Open University Richard Holliman Lecturer in Science Communication, Science Faculty, The Open University Stephen Smith BBC Newsnight Culture Correspondent 17.25 Concluding Remarks Dr Andrew Millington 17.30 Finish TO REGISTER FOR THE SEMINAR AND TO RECEIVE A COPY OF THE SEMINAR BROCHURE, RSVP: By email to: [log in to unmask] or Tel: +44 (0)20 7483 4545 or in writing to: OMNI Communications, First Floor, 155 Regents Park Road, London NW1 8BB Please Note: There is no charge for attendance at the Seminar but advance registration is requested. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. INVITATION TO WINDOW ON SCIENCE FESTIVAL AWARDS Seminar delegates are warmly invited to attend the 'Window on Science/ Vedere la Scienza Awards Evening which will follow the seminar at the IET at 19.00 (Coffee 18.30). Television and Radio presenter/journalist Nick Ross will give a short talk, followed by the presentation of the Awards for the Best International TV Drama/Docudrama featuring Science or Technology. The Awards will be preceded by screenings from each of the candidate programmes. Nick Ross will then be joined for a round table discussion: Windows on the Future - Science and the Communications Revolution Professor Teresa Rees CBE, School of Social Science, Cardiff University Andrew Cohen, Editor, BBC Horizon Jonathan Drori, Director, Changing Media Ltd Patricia Boya, Euroscience and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Nigel Shadbolt, President, BCS, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Southampton University The Awards will conclude with a cheese and wine party at 20.45. Attendance at the Awards Evening and Reception is free but by TICKET. To register, please RSVP By email to: [log in to unmask] or Tel: +44 (0)20 7483 4545 SUPPORTERS 'Science Outside the Box' and the Window on Science / Vedere la Scienza Awards Day are supported by: The UK Resource Centre for Women in SET www.setwomenresource.org.uk <http://www.setwomenresource.org.uk/> IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) www.theiet.org <http://www.theiet.org/> ORGANISERS PAWS and EuroPAWS at Omni Communications www.pawsdrama.co.uk <http://www.pawsdrama.co.uk/> Instituto di Fisica Applicata, Universita degli Studi di Milano www.brera.unimi.it/eng/festival/festival.html ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. 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