Each year the BA honours five outstanding communicators with the opportunity to present a prestigious award lecture at the BA Festival of Science. The award lectures aim to promote open and informed discussion on issues involving science and actively encourage scientists to explore the social aspects of their research providing them with reward and recognition for doing so.
Nominations are now invited for the following award lectures:
Lecture title Area
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Lecture Engineering, Technology, Industry
Charles Darwin Lecture Agricultural, Biological & Medical Sciences
Lord Kelvin Lecture Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Joseph Lister Lecture Social Sciences
Charles Lyell Lecture Environmental Sciences
Nominees should be professional scientists or engineers under 40 (on 10 September 2007) who show outstanding skills in communicating to a non-specialist audience.
Winners will be invited to give their lecture at the BA Festival of Science at the University of York between 10 and 14 September 2007.
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 broad range of disciplines.
For more information about the Award Lecture scheme, or about the BA Festival of Science, e-mail [log in to unmask].
Nominations must be received by 24 February 2007
Many thanks
Jo
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