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The Elizabeth Johnson Memorial Lecture 2009

The 2009 lecture took place at the Institute on 22 September and was delivered by Dr Caroline Pontefract from the Commonwealth Secretariat and Dr Sue Dale Tunnicliffe (The Lady Tunnicliffe), from the Institute of Education and Trustee of CASTME, the Commonwealth Association for Science, Technology and Maths Educators. It was a lively and entertaining lecture, covering the Commonwealth Secretariat's global plans for promoting science, engineering and maths and the importance of science education for pre-school children.

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?’.

The second Elizabeth Johnson memorial lecture was given by Claire Curtis-Thomas MP: ‘Gordon Brown Administers: Translating science into government policy’.

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