The
Science TV and
New Media Awards Evening 2010
This PAWS/EuroPAWS event is
being held in
association with the BBC Year of Science,
at the
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
on
Monday 22 November 2010.
The evening will include preview clips of candidate programmes screened at the Strasbourg Festival and Young Jury project, the presentation of the seven prizes in this year’s expanded agenda, and a feature session presented by the BBC and PAWS looking at the future of science and technology and the challenge for the BBC and other broadcasters in reaching different audiences with science in a changing world.
Further details will appear here in due course.
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The Environment
in TV and
New Media
Awards Evening 2009
On the theme:
LAST STOP BEFORE COPENHAGEN
Visions of the Future - A Time for Decision
Monday 23 November
at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Savoy Place, London WC2
The 2009 Awards Evening is supported by:
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Awards Evening Programme
6.30pm Arrivals and Refreshments
7.00pm Introduction on behalf of PAWS/EuroPAWS
Susan Rae
Welcome on behalf of the IET
Dr Nigel Burton, Deputy President
Screenings from MIDAS Prize Finallists
in the categories:
Environmental science and technology in:
- 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)
Presentation of the 2009 MIDAS Awards including a special Young Persons Jury Award in the Documentary and Drama Category
Keynote Talk:
Lord Puttnam of
Queensgate CBE
"A Media Perspective on Climate Change Issues"
Keynote Talk:
Professor Mark Maslin, Director of the Environment Institute,
UCL
"The Science and The Politics behind Climate Change"
Climate Change : Your Chance to Vote
Session Moderator Joanna Yarrow
Founding Director, Beyond
Green
An interactive session featuring expert viewpoints and culminating in an audience
vote on key choices facing government and the public on reducing carbon emissions
(the questions will be available in advance to those registering for the event).
Expert Panel
Ed Gillespie Co-founder and Director, Futerra Sustainability
Communications
Kate Bellingham Broadcaster and National STEM Careers
Coordinator
Dr Jim Watson Director of the Sussex Energy Group,
University of Sussex and co-leader of the Tyndall Centre Climate Change and Energy
Programme
8.45pm Reception
Riverside Room overlooking the Thames
Speaker Profiles
 Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
David Puttnam spent thirty years as an independent film producer. His many award winning films include The Mission, the Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and the Memphis Belle.
He retired from film production in 1998 and now focuses on his work in education and the environment. He is Chancellor of the Open University. In 1998 he founded that National Teaching Awards which he Chaired until October 2008. He served as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council (2000-2002), and on a variety of other public bodies. He was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and for ten years chaired the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, as well as serving as a Trustee of both the Tate Gallery and the Science Museum.. He has also recently become a Trustee of the Eden Project. He was also Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) from 1994 to 2004, and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006.
He was appointed President of UNICEF UK in July 2002, and played a key role in promoting UNICEF's advocacy, awareness and fundraising objectives. He retired from this post in July 2009.
In February 2006, became Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, and in April 2006 Chairman of Futurelab. In April 2007 he became the Chairman of Profero. In the same month he was also appointed Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Climate Change Bill Scrutiny Committee. Also in 2007 he was appointed as Chairman of North Music Trust, The Sage Gateshead. Most recently he was made President of the FDA.
David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. In France he has been honoured as a Chevalier ('85), Officer ('92) and, most recently (2006) Commander of Arts and Letters. |
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 Professor Mark Maslin
Professor Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is the Director of the UCL Environment Institute and Head of the Department of Geography. He is an Executive Director of Carbon Auditors Ltd/Inc. and science advisor to the Global Cool Foundation and Carbon Sense Ltd. Maslin is a leading climatologist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change and has publish over 95 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and Geology (citation ~2,250, H = 24). He has been awarded grants of over £22 million, twenty five of which have been awarded by NERC. His areas of scientific expertise include causes of past and future global climate change, ocean circulation, monitoring land carbon sinks, and international and national climate change policies. He has also have written 7 popular books, over 20 popular articles (e.g., for New Scientist, Independent and Guardian), appeared on radio, television and been consulted regularly by the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News. His latest popular book is the high successful Oxford University Press "Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction" the second edition was published late last year and has sold over 35,000 copies. He was also a co-author of the recent Lancet-UCL 'Managing the health effects of climate change' commissioned report. He is also currently working on the DIFD Report on Population, Climate Change and the Millennium Development Goals. |
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 Susan Rae
If you have never seen Susan
Rae, you will almost certainly have heard her - most currently as a newsreader on BBC Radio Four (she's a regular voice on the Today Programme) or Radio 2; perhaps narrating murder and science documentaries on Discovery, telling you things you never knew on the History Channel, or filling you in on showbiz gossip on the Biography Channnel. Susan has also presented all kinds of television programmes and conferences. She has been with PAWS since its inception. |
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 Joanna Yarrow
Joanna Yarrow is a consultant, broadcaster and writer specialising in sustainable lifestyles. She is Founder Director of sustainability consultancy Beyond Green (www.beyondgreen.co.uk). Focusing on making sustainable living tangible, accessible and attractive, she works on projects ranging from urban regeneration, community consultation and masterplanning to developing sustainability strategies and action plans for places and organisations. She is also a director of Blue Living Ltd, a property development company that delivers mixed-use sustainable communities (www.blueliving.co.uk).
Joanna presented BBC3's Outrageous Wasters, is GMTV's eco expert, and regularly appears on a
range of news and current affairs programmes including This
Morning, ITV Tonight and Five News, as well as presenting ITV's 60
Minute Makeover. Joanna is the author of 1001 Ways
You Can Save the Planet, How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint and Eco-logical! and has fronted a number of mainstream behaviour change campaigns. She sits on the government's Ecotowns Challenge Panel and in 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Staffordshire for her work on sustainability and climate change. |
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 Dr Nigel Burton
Nigel Burton became chief financial officer and executive board member of Advanced Power AG in May 2008. Prior to joining Advanced Power, Nigel was finance director of Granby Oil and Gas plc, a UK based oil and gas exploration and production company, which he floated on AIM in 2005 and led the sale of in early 2008, following four years as chief financial officer of WILink plc, an international web based financial information and corporate communications business.
Nigel has over 14 years' experience of Investment Banking at leading City institutions including UBS Warburg and Deutsche Bank, principally as the managing director responsible for the energy and utilities industries. Nigel graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College London, before undertaking a PhD in Acoustic Imaging. He previously worked in manufacturing, and is a Chartered Electrical Engineer (FIET).
Nigel is an active angel investor, focusing on technology, media and energy businesses. Nigel has been actively involved in the IET for over 25 years, including as Chairman of London Younger members, London Centre, the national Younger members Committee, the Audit and Investment Committees, and the Power Trading and Control TPN. He is currently a Deputy President and a member of the IET Board of Trustees. |
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 Ed Gillespie
Ed is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Futerra, one of the leading specialist sustainability communications agencies in the world. Futerra focuses on delivering real attitude and behaviour change communications campaigns and engagement for a host of clients from the United Nations, through UK Government Departments, to major multinational corporations, innovative small businesses and international NGOs.
In a varied, complementary career Ed has taught in Jamaica for a year, worked
for the Survival Natural History Film Unit, as a marine biologist in Australia,
New Caledonia and Orkney, and prior to starting Futerra in 2001 was environmental
manager for London Transport.
Ed has Masters degrees in both Marine Conservation and Sustainable Development and has recently returned from a global circumnavigation of the world without flying during which he kept a popular blog www.lowcarbontravel.com and wrote a regular column, 'The Slow Traveller' for the Observer newspaper. He continues to be a regular contributor to the Guardian's Ethical Living Blog and writes for a range of other publications on a freelance basis.
A popular and provocative communicator and public speaker on all things sustainable Ed is a Member of the International Visual Communication Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Director of AntiApathy the campaigning and social experiment organization, and sits on the Steering Group of 'Do the green thing'. He is a passionate and persuasive advocate for positive change in all aspects of our lives and sectors of society. |
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 Kate Bellingham
Kate Bellingham is the National STEM Careers Co-ordinator (STEM Careers Champion for the DCSF). She has had a 'portfolio' career. With a degree in physics, MSc in electronics and QTS, she has worked as a computer programmer, broadcast engineer, TV presenter (including 'Tomorrow's World'), and secondary maths teacher. As well as her Careers Champion role, she is currently the Bloodhound Education Ambassador, President of Young Engineers and a Patron of WISE. She will also be returning to our screens next year in a BBC 2 science documentary series. |
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 Dr Jim Watson
Dr Jim Watson is Director of the Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex and co-leader of the Tyndall Centre Climate Change and Energy Programme. Jim trained as an engineer at Imperial College London and has a PhD in science and technology policy from Sussex. He has over 15 years' experience of managing and conducting research on a range of energy and climate policy issues. He has expertise in energy innovation policy, distributed energy systems, carbon capture and storage, nuclear power and energy security. He frequently works with UK government departments, and was a lead expert with the UK Foresight project on Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment (2007-08). He was also a Specialist Adviser with the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (2006-09).
Jim has extensive international experience, including over ten years working on energy scenarios and low carbon innovation in China and more recent work with colleagues on low carbon technology transfer to India. He recently co-authored a Tyndall Centre report: China's
Energy Transition (April 2009). Jim was a steering group member of the UK-Japan project on low carbon societies (2006-08). In 2008, he spent three months as a Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Jim is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics, a Trustee of the Koru Foundation, and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party on biofuels. |
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