50 | Public engagement
PubLIC ENGAGEMENT
The Wellcome Trust’s Public broadcast development Awards: Two issues of the Big Picture schools
Engagement activities aim to engage 21 awards (up to £10 000) were made to resource were published during the year
with society to foster a climate within support the development of broadcast – Health and Climate Change and Music,
which biomedical science can proposals with a link to biomedical science. Mind and Medicine – while a special
flourish. issue on influenza was published in
International Engagement Awards: September 2009.
A more thematic approach was adopted 17 small awards (up to £30 000) were
during the year, starting with a themed made under the new International Supporting researchers and broadcast
Society Awards call for proposals on Engagement Awards programme. In Six training workshops on narrative skills
genetic variation and health. Darwin addition to this, one large award was were run for UK Trust-funded researchers,
celebrations were a major theme of the made to the Wellcome Trust Major in addition to a refresher event for
year (see page 26), and the experience Overseas Programme in South Africa previous attendees. An international
gained in this work and other large-scale to support the development of its engagement workshop was held in
ventures such as Wellcome Collection is in-country programme. South Africa, principally for international
feeding into further initiatives integrating engagement grantholders but also to
commissioned work and response- Capital Awards: Three major capital help to develop an international
mode funding, starting with a six-month awards were made, to the Florence community of practitioners in low-
season of activity exploring the theme of Nightingale Museum, the Mary Rose income countries.
identity. Trust and the Museum of the Order of
St John. A bursary scheme was launched to
Grants enable practising biomedical scientists
A total of 98 grants were awarded under Education to undertake a postgraduate qualification
the £3.3 million Engaging Science initiative, The Trust’s nationally significant role in in Science Media Production at Imperial
and 41 grants under the broadcast and science education was reflected in the College London, along with a six-month
international engagement schemes. appointment of Sir Mark Walport as chair industry placement.
of the UK government’s Science and
Society Awards: Ten of these large Learning Expert Group. Derek Bell joined A number of projects supported by
awards (over £30 000) were made for a the Trust from the Association for broadcast awards won prizes during the
range of important activities. Support Science Education to lead the Trust’s year, most notably Here’s Johnny (Kat
was provided to the Cheltenham education work, the centrepiece of Mansoor), which won two Grierson
Festivals (see page 29), the Naked which is an ambitious project to identify Awards (Best Documentary on the Arts
Scientists and a partnership aiming to options for the future shape of UK and the Bloomberg Award For Best
integrate human genomics into the science education. Newcomer), and The English Surgeon,
school curriculum. which won nine awards, including the
The National Science Learning Centre Best International Feature Documentary
People Awards: There were 45 awards had another successful year, providing at Hotdocs in 2008.
(up to £30 000) made to support a 6519 training days, while the now formal
diverse range of activities, including network of regional Science Learning book Prize
performances, exhibitions, talks, Centres contributed to almost 20 000 The £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize
conferences, debates and training days. In all, 73 per cent of UK was launched in October 2008. The annual
documentaries. secondary schools and 17 per cent of Prize will be awarded to the year’s
primary schools have had participants outstanding work of fiction or non-fiction
Arts Awards: 38 small grants (up to attending training at a centre. on a theme linked to health, illness or
£30 000) and two large grants (over medicine. Comedian and writer Jo Brand
£30 000) were awarded. chaired the judging panel for the 2009
award.
IMAGE
Henry Marsh, who features in the award-winning
documentary The English Surgeon.
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