Awards

The BA (The British Association for the Advancement of Science)

“The Charles Darwin Award Lecture, 2004”
7 September 2004, BA Festival of Science, University of Exeter

This is the BA’s main national, annual award “lecture” for public understanding of the biological sciences; nationally this is probably the most prestigious award one can receive for communicating the biological sciences in the UK. Lecture title: “The Chemicals of Pleasure: Good or Evil?”

Contact: Professor Robert Winston (c/o Hammersmith Hospital/Imperial College London), President of the BA.

The Arvon Foundation and The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

“Science Writing Project, 2004”
20-25 September 2004, The Hurst, Shropshire (The Arvon Foundation)

This is the first ever science writing workshop run by the Arvon foundation. It was application by nomination only, a five day residential retreat for 12 hand picked scientists to work on a science writing project, with all expenses paid. Direction and instruction were provided by John Gribbin (Schrodinger’s Cat) and Jim Crace (twice winner of the Whitbread Award). The book project I am currently working on concerns the science of pleasure and is called Pleasure and how you can get more of it.

Contact: author John Gribbin and novelist Jim Crace.