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The 2018 RSE Prizes for Public Engagement supported by The James Weir Foundation are:-

Innovator’s Public Engagement Prize to Mr Lewis Hou, Founder and Director of the Science Ceilidh and Research Assistant, Clinical Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh, for his innovative and original contributions to public engagement, particularly in thinking creatively about combining arts and sciences through his Science Ceilidh which has engaged over 5000 people around the UK with science and folk festivals and collaborations with Cancer Research UK, ScienceGRRl and various science festivals, including the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Senior Public Engagement Prize to Professor Rory Duncan, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, for his passion and enormously productive advocacy for public engagement in Scotland, the UK and internationally.

The 2017 RSE Prizes for Public Engagement supported by The James Weir Foundation are:-

Innovator’s Public Engagement Prize to Dr Sinead Rhodes, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, for her substantial and innovative work with the RSE Young Academy of Scotland on the “Research the Headlines” project.

Senior Public Engagement Prize to Professor Daniele Faccio, Professor in Physics, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, for his science engagement and outreach talks, videos, television and YouTube presentations on black hole physics and novel imaging technologies.

The 2016 RSE Prizes for Public Engagement supported by The James Weir Foundation are:-

Innovator’s Public Engagement Prize to Dr Helen Bridle, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, for her innovative and original contributions to public engagement as an ambassador for (young women) engineers and engineering through her work including delivering her “Ingenious!” outreach scheme to schools and her publication in “Lab on a Chip” which has led to increased public engagement activities across schools and science festivals.

Senior Public Engagement Prize to Professor Iain Stewart, Professor of Geosciences Communication, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, for its exceptional and broad-ranging science engagement with the general public through the medium of broadcasting and with school pupils and teachers in the form of lectures and events, including the RSE’s @Lochaber programme of activities.

The 2015 RSE Prizes for Public Engagement supported by The James Weir Foundation are:-

Innovator’s Public Engagement Prize to Dr Mhairi Stewart, Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, for her outstanding contribution to public engagement through her innovative practice of engaging through communities of interest by using creativity as a tool for engagement, particularly in creating art and science collaborative activities.

Senior Public Engagement Prize to Professor Martin Hendry MBE FRSE, Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, for his exceptional and sustained track record of science engagement with the general public, schools, societies and science festivals throughout the world and for the breadth of material presented.

Innovator’s Public Engagement Prize to Dr Kevin O’Dell, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, for his outstanding contribution to public engagement through his skills in both genetics and communication to engage young adults with the world of genetics, particularly through his Zombie Science shows.

Senior Public Engagement Prize to Professor Andrew Whiten FRSE FBA, Wardlaw Professor of Psychology and Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, University of St Andrews, for his extensive, creative and unique forms of public engagement, particularly as founding Director of the “Living Links to Human Evolution” Research Centre at Edinburgh Zoo.