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L'Oreal FWIS award 2008
The 2008 L’Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science, which are organised as a partnership between L’Oreal UK and Ireland, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the UK National Commission for UNESCO, the Irish National Commission for UNESCO and the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, are designed to celebrate and support the contribution of UK and Irish women researchers in the life and physical sciences.
Four fellowships of £15,000 (equivalent € for Irish candidates) will be offered to outstanding female scientists. They are tenable at any UK or Irish university or research institution to support 12 months of postdoctoral research in the life or physical sciences.
The prize money can be spent in any number of innovative ways to enable women scientists to further their careers and facilitate world class research.
Deadline for applications is Wednesday 2 April 2008. Further details can also be found at: www.unesco.org.uk/For_Women_In_Science.htm.
Please send any enquiries about the awards to: forwomeninscience@uk.loreal.com.
The Elizabeth Johnson Memorial Lecture
The second Elizabeth Johnson memorial lecture will take place on Thursday 6 September 2007 at the Institute of Physics. The lecture will be given by Claire Curtis-Thomas MP: ‘Gordon Brown Administers: Translating science into government policy’.
Betty Johnson (1936-2003) was a highly respected physicist who worked tirelessly to encourage women into science. She was instrumental in establishing the Daphne Jackson Trust in 1992. The trust, based in Surrey, implements a fellowship scheme to enable a return to careers in science or engineering through updated knowledge and renewed professional skills. Betty Johnson was awarded an MBE in 2002 in recognition of her services to people returning to careers in science, engineering and technology.
The first Elizabeth Johnson Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Jean-Patrick Connerade (President of Euroscience), the Lockyer Professor of Physics at Imperial College London: 'Can Science bring Europeans Together?’.
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