Welcome to our blog from the British Science Festival. This year's Festival will be in Surrey from 5-10 September with hundreds events expected to happen at the University of Surrey campus and throughout the county. With workshops, hands-on fun, heated debates, talks, performances and field trips there's something for everyone!
Stay tuned for the latest news and developments from the British Science Festival.

from Yasmin and Natalie (Festival team)

Wednesday 19 November 2008

Latest news

Hi everyone

It's been a little while since our last post. We've been pretty busy here at the office with proposals coming in and deciding which ones to include in next year's programme.

We will soon be taking in nominations for the BA Award lectures where each year the BA honours five outstanding communicators with the opportunity to present a prestigious award lecture at the BA Festival of Science. So if you know a talented science communicator and think that they deserve the title of an Award lecture winner, then please nominate them!

More details are soon to follow on the website, Festival blog and Facebook group. So keep checking back for more details.

In the mean time if you have any questions or would like to subscribe to our Festival email list please email festival@the-ba.net

Thanks

Yasmin

Monday 3 November 2008

Goodbye Manchester...

So what about the rest of the week at the Manchester Science Festival? After ensuring the Award Lectures went smoothly, we got the chance to go to some other events in the Festival. We went on a city walk looking at Radical Manchester, which was run by Urbis and was very insightful. I went to a talk and discussion about tuberculosis and how it is worryingly on the rise again. This was fascinating, since there have been a lot of changes since I learnt about tuberculosis at University. I dropped into lots of exhibitions and went to a documentary and discussion called Cosmic Africa, which explored an African’s work in cosmology and his journey to find where this fit in with the culture and beliefs of many Africans. It was a great documentary and was great food for thought. There was some great food there too! I also got the chance to meet lots of other festival organisers and directors from all over the world which was very exciting. Attending as part of a British Council International Festival Directors symposium, they were at the Manchester Science Festival to see how the UK runs its Science Festivals and what the UK does in terms of public engagement with science. So, it was a great few days in Manchester – our Award Lectures went really well and it was good to have the opportunity to attend events at another Festival. Now back to thinking about Surrey...