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08 Feb 2008

Nominations invited for the BA Award Lectures 2008 by 29 February.

The BA Award Lectures are prestigious awards presented to young scientists who are particularly gifted at presenting their research to a non-specialist audience, and we would welcome nominations from your organisation.

The selected Award Lecturers will be invited to present at the BA Festival of Science 2008, in Liverpool between 6 and 11 September. The BA Festival of Science attracts tens of thousands of people and generates thousands of column inches in the national, regional and international press. The BA Award Lectures tend to receive excellent publicity and are also a very popular component of the programme among a wide audience.

There are five different Award categories:

  • Joseph Lister Award - Social sciences
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award - Engineering, technology and industry
  • Charles Lyell Award - Environmental sciences
  • Charles Darwin Award - Agricultural, biological and medical sciences
  • Lord Kelvin Award - Physical sciences and mathematics

When considering who you might nominate you should consider the following questions:

  • Will the content and topic appeal to a broad range of people?
  • Is the speaker skilled in presenting to a broad, general audience?
  • Is the topic pressworthy?
  • Will the speaker be able to present new research on which they are working?
  • Could there be an interactive element to the presentation?
  • Will the speaker be under 40 on 11 September 2008?

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