Embedding Science in Popular Culture

在过去的十年中，除了在理论核物理领域建立国际研究声誉外，我还将大量时间用于科学传播和普及活动。萨里大学在2005年认可了我的努力，将我提升为物理学和科学公众参与的联合个人主席。2007年，我被授予皇家学会的迈克尔法拉第奖章和科学传播奖，今年早些时候，我因对物理学的贡献而获得了大英帝国勋章。我对传播我的研究和与公众就更广泛的科学问题进行接触充满热情。我现有的EPSRC高级媒体奖学金使我能够从事项目和倡议，否则我将无法做，因为我的学术承诺。在过去的两年里，我已经确立了自己作为一个电视节目主持人与两个三部分的系列（原子和科学和伊斯兰教）和一个小时的地平线纪录片的大爆炸，所有的BBC4。明年（我在SMF的最后一年），我将再做三个节目：一个一小时的关于BBC4的混沌理论的纪录片，一个关于化学的三部分系列，叫做元素，也是BBC4和一个五部分系列，与斯蒂芬·霍金和理查德·道金斯共同介绍英国科学的历史。为了继续这种水平的活动，我请求延长我的SMF，可以继续从萨里大学物理系的学术职责中购买一半的时间，没有它，我就无法证明我从办公桌上抽出这么多时间是合理的。我目前的SMF使我能够在广播界建立许多联系，并在电视和电台上建立我的名字作为科学节目主持人。我现在处于一个幸运而令人受宠若惊的位置，被“需求”。如果不延长我的奖学金，我将无法继续在学术研究、学术研究和公众参与广播方面取得平衡。今年夏天，我的核物理研究小组成功地向STFC申请了价值超过200万英镑的五年滚动资助，我是其中的一员。在完全经济成本法下，我在未来几年中用于研究的时间比例为38%，是该组中任何学者中最高的。我们现在正在招聘一名新的博士后研究员，他将在一个新的领域工作，我将参与理解核聚变反应动力学。

Over the past decade, in addition to forging an international research reputation in my field of theoretical nuclear physics, I have devoted a significant fraction of my time to science communication and popularisation activities. The University of Surrey acknowledged my efforts in 2005 by promoting me to a joint personal chair in physics and in the Public Engagement in Science. In 2007, I was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday medal and prize for science communication and earlier this year received an OBE for services to physics.I feel passionately about communicating my research and engaging with the public on wider scientific issues in general. My existing EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship has enabled me to pursue projects and initiatives I would otherwise have been unable to do because of my academic commitments. Over the past two years I have established myself as a television presenter with two three-part series ( Atom and Science and Islam ) and a one hour Horizon documentary on the Big Bang, all for BBC4. Next year (my final year of the SMF) I will be making a further three more programmes: a one hour documentary on chaos theory for BBC4, a three-part series on chemistry called Elements , also for BBC4 and a five part series, co-presenting with Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins on the history of British Science for Channel 4. For this level of activity to continue I request an extension to my SMF that can continue to buy out half my time from the academic duties within the department of Physics at the University of Surrey, without which I would not be able to justify taking so much time away from my desk. My current SMF has allowed me to forge many contacts within broadcasting and to get my name established as a science presenter on television and radio. I am now in the lucky and flattering position of being 'in demand'. Without an extension to my fellowship I would not be able to continue the balance of academic research and scholarship and public engagement in broadcasting. I would be forced to choose - something I hope I do not have to do.This summer, I was part of my nuclear physics research group's successful five-year rolling grant bid to STFC, worth over two million pounds. Under Full Economic Costing, the fraction of my time on grant to devote to research over the coming few years was 38% - the highest of any academic in the group. We are in the process now of recruiting a new postdoctoral fellow to work in a new area I will be involved with in understanding nuclear fusion reaction dynamics.