ABSW Awards 2025: Eleven categories for science writers, journalists & broadcasters
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ABSW Awards 2025: Eleven categories for science writers, journalists & broadcasters

01/01/2025 Association Of British Science Writers, The (ABSW)
Entries remain open throughout January 2025 with finalists announced in May. Winners are announced at the annual awards ceremony in June - the highlight of the science journalism calendar. Winners receive £500, a certificate and the much coveted ‘Award winning science journalist’ mug.

In 2025 winners included Tom Whipple of The Times, freelancers Philip Ball and Aisling Irwin, plus Miryam Naddaf of Nature.

Categories open to entry in 2025

All formats
  • News Item of the Year
  • News Analysis of the Year
  • Steve Connor Award for Investigative Journalism
  • Research Policy or Funding Story of the Year
  • Newcomer of the Year - supported by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
Print/Online only
  • Feature of the Year: general audience
  • Feature of the Year: specialist audience
  • Opinion Piece/Editorial of the Year
  • The Dr Katharine Giles Award for best popular article written by a scientist, engineer or technologist - supported by the Dr Katharine Giles Fund
Format specific awards
  • The Royal Society Audio Award - supported by The Royal Society
  • Video of the Year
The ABSW’s premier award - the Lifetime Achievement Award – is chosen by ABSW members. It was last awarded in 2024 to Debora MacKenzie who worked almost exclusively for New Scientist, the British scientific weekly, for 38 years. In his nominating statement ABSW Chair Andy Extance said: Debora's contribution on pandemic reporting, in particular in forewarning about covid-19 and holding governments to account for their failures in responding to it, is a journalistic achievement worthy of this award.
Previous lifetime achievement award winners include Sir David Attenborough and Sir Philip Campbell.

Enter now:
https://www.absw.org.uk/pages/absw-awards-2025

Entry is free for members of the ABSW and the Irish Science and Technology Journalists Association. For non-members there is a fee of £55 per entry.

The awards are only possible due to the generous support of our award partners The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, The Dr Katharine Giles Fund, The Royal Society and AlphaGalileo, our media partner.

Why not join them in supporting excellence science and technology journalism? Find out more:
https://www.absw.org.uk/pages/with-thanks-to-our-2025-award-partners
https://www.absw.org.uk/pages/absw-awards-2025
01/01/2025 Association Of British Science Writers, The (ABSW)
Regions: Europe, United Kingdom
Keywords: Science, Chemistry, Climate change, Life Sciences, Public Dialogue - science

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