Please see below for details of the next NWSA meeting. Please contact Paul Birchall (details below) and not myself if you wish to attend. Pam --------------------------------------------------------------- The next meeting will take place on at 19.00 on Wednesday 10th October 2007 at the Daresbury Laboratory. Refreshments will be available from 18.30. Confirmed presentations include: Malcolm Moore (Brightside Trust) - The work of the trust Joyce Porter (Association for Science Education) - The ASE Conference Olympia Brown (Royal Institution) - RI Regional Activities Joanne Coleman (The BA) - Liverpool Festival plans and programme involvement Tim Powell (NWDA) - Culture Northwest Directions to the venue can be found at http://www.srs.ac.uk/srs/visitSR/visit_travel.html <http://www.srs.ac.uk/srs/visitSR/visit_travel.html> For security reasons, please contact Paul Birchall ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) to let us know you are coming. If anyone is travelling from Manchester by car, Dayna Mason would be very interested in sharing the ride (and helping prevent global warming). Please contact her at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Graham A. Bonwick Professor of Applied Biology Director - Environmental Quality & Food Safety Research Unit Director - Centre for Science Communication University of Chester Parkgate Road Chester CH1 4BJ T: 01244 513069 M: 07971 059997 P A Birchall Science in Society STFC Daresbury Laboratory Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD Phone 01925 603408 Fax 01925 603195 [log in to unmask] ____________________________________ CREST Star Investigators, the BA's brand new UK-wide award scheme that enables children to solve scientific problems through practical investigation is now up and running. The activities focus on thinking about, talking about, and doing science. For more details go to www.the-ba.net/creststar <https://secure.the-ba.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.the-ba.net/creststar> . Pamela Buchan Regional Officer - North of England the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) c/o The Manchester Museum The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL T: +44 (0)161 306 1599 F: +44 (0)161 275 2676 Website: www.the-ba.net <file://www.the-ba.net/> Registered charity with the Charity Commission, no: 212479 Please consider the environment before printing this email ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System on behalf of the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) ________________________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************** 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. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk **********************************************************************