Engaging Science: Society Awards
Overview
People Awards and Society Awards support projects that enable the public to explore biomedical science, its impact on society and culture, its historical roots and the ethical questions that it raises.
The schemes aim to:
- stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science and/or the history of medicine
- support formal and informal learning
- reach audiences of all ages and from all walks of life and inform, inspire and involve them
- encourage high-quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborations
- investigate and test new methods of engagement, participation and education.
The schemes are open to a wide range of people, including: mediators, facilitators and practitioners of science communication; science centre/museum staff; artists; educators; film makers; theatre producers; games developers; public participation practitioners; health professionals; and academics in bioscience, social science, bioethics and medical history and humanities.
Project activities and outputs may include:
- workshops, events, debates and discussions
- exhibitions and museum outreach
- films, games, websites and cross-platform projects
- performance or theatre projects involving existing work or work that may be more illustrative than artistic
- deliberative or opinion-gathering projects
- creation of teaching materials
- projects that use the collections of the Wellcome Library and the Wellcome collection at the Science Museum.
Society Awards (above £40 000)
Society Awards can fund the scaling-up of successfully piloted projects (whether funded through People Awards or through other means) or can fund projects that are more ambitious in scale and impact than is possible through a People Award. Society Award projects would normally expect to reach audiences with a wide geographical spread across the UK and/or Republic of Ireland. They can also part-fund larger projects. The average level of a Society Award is around £180,000 over 2-3 years