PAWS and EuroPAWS are pleased to announce their Autumn programme of events on Science and Technology in Television and Audio-visual Media.
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November 3 and 4
The Institute of Physics, London
The EuroPAWS Environment in TV and New Media Festival
Including two days of screenings of programmes from across
Europe, plus panel-led discussions. Three categories
of output are featured:
- TV Documentaries and Drama
- TV General Programming (i.e. magazines, politics shows, natural world etc)
- an item in context or a complete programme
- New Media Productions (including WEB, iPOD, Promotional Video etc)
A jury of leading TV professionals and scientists/engineers
and science communicators from across Europe will award
prizes for the best productions in each category plus
an extra award recognizing merit beyond the categorization.
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November 3, 4.30pm
The Institute of Physics, London
"Images Matter
- The Changing Role of Television and other Media in
communicating modern science"
A panel-led discussion at the Environment in TV and New Media Festival.
Science and Technology now have an ever greater presence across broadcasting.
Environmental issues pervade news and current affairs nowadays as well as dedicated
science programming, but also areas like drama and rural affairs programming
see it as offering major stories. But many areas of science from IT to Genetics
and even simulations of the Big Bang cut across TV and New media genres. Professionals
from across TV and New Media output will lead a debate on how the TV and other
media does and should respond to this changing world.
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November 4, 7.00pm
University College, London
"Climate Change
- Let the Science Speak"
A PAWS science evening bringing some of the key science and technology
behind climate change and associated issues to a wide public. The event will
featured women scientists and engineers from across the research areas and a
leading TV producer and Director of programmes on the environment, Fiona Scott.
The event will be introduced by the Director of the Environment Institute Professor
Mark Maslin, who will also present a cameo of women scientists on television
as part of the women in science theme.
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November 24, 7.00pm
Institution of Engineering and
Technology, London
The PAWS/EuroPAWS Awards Evening
Climate Change - Seeing is Believing
The Awards evening this year has an Environment in TV and New Media focus. Excerpts from all the candidates for the four MIDAS Prizes will be screened, and the Award winners announced. There will be a keynote talk from Sir David King, former Government Chief Scientist and now Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University, and a panel-led discussion including the Head of Climate Change at the Environment Agency and writer of the BBC Drama "Burn Up" and "The Full Monty" Simon Beaufoy.
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For further details on all events, click on the relevant box on the right or the indicated tab at the top.
The EuroPAWS Festival and the Panel-led Discussion are supported
by the Institute of Physics, DIUS (the UK Department of Innovation,
Universities and Skills) and OMNI Communications.
The PAWS Science Evening at UCL is supported by the Environment Institute,
UCL and the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET.
The PAWS/EuroPAWS Awards Evening is supported by the Environment Agency and
The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Science, Arts and the Public - Bridging the Cultures
We are increasingly aware of the importance of science, engineering and technology in all our lives. Every day hews bulletins carry items in which science features prominently. The general public is anxious to know more about the impact on daily life if scientific and engineering developments. But this explosion of scientific headlines also opens up opportunities across television for new programming and new stories. Scientific or engineering challenges can be fun as well as demanding, and this applies as much to areas of threat like climate change as to more benign developments.
Television drama provides one example of how true scientific settings can inform both classic formats and new variations where drama can be an ingredient. PAWS categorises drama......the medium of drama.
As the EuroPAWS 2008 festival illustrates, the challenge is on to find new and refreshing ways of presenting issues that engage new audiences. PAWS was inspired in its early days by the chance for science in TV drama, and it is to the large audiences of entertainment generally and other major strands of broadcasting where the excitement and relevance of science today can be most widely portrayed. Dedicated science programming remains hugely important, but the growth of opportunities in other broadcasting contexts for engaging different publics with new science and engineering challenges must be seized. The three goals of public engagement - the democratic argument, to empower people better to make informed decisions, opportunities for jobs, and as part of a modern culture - all point to the key role of TV and New Media in recognizing how much of its output is relevant to this communication agenda.
Awards Results December 2007
The winners of MIDAS Prizes 2007, announced at the PAWS/EuroPAWS Awards Evening
on 4 December, were:
Best
European TV Drama featuring Science and Technology
ANIMALS
A docu-drama produced by BLAST Films for Channel 4, UK. |
Best
Science and Technology Presentation in General TV
Programming in Europe
Chronique d´en Haut
Le Magazine de la Montagne
Produced by France 3 Rhone’Alpes/Auvergne and Mecanos for FR3
Episode: Une Montagne d´Energie (A Mountain of Energy) |
Best
Presentation of Science and Technology in a European
New Media Production
Tomorrow's Climate Today's Challenge
A general Awareness DVD produced by the Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs, UK. |
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