Find below summaries of our lectures back to 1987, and links to recordings of some of the more recent events.
Annual Lecture
Each year our lecture gives an opportunity for a guest speaker to discuss science and engineering advocacy.
Watch our 2023 Annual Lecture given by Prof Dame Angela McLean


Scientific advice to government

We need to talk about science

Placing science and innovation at the heart of the US and UK’s future

The research and innovation system: fuelling an inclusive knowledge economy

Embedding Research in the Heart of Government

Making Artificial Intelligence A Reality

Britain’s Place in the World

Shaping the Future of Science

Making the UK the best place in the world to do science

NASA’s Journey to Mars

What’s the use of evidence?

An Industrial Strategy

Science and Growth

Pre-election debate on Science and Engineering

Science in Government: Challenges for the 21st Century

Science and Education

How to stimulate creativity and how to stifle it

An insider’s view of science in Government

Research – The European Challenge



The Internet and Science, Technology and Engineering Education

Where would UK science be without the charities?

Science, energy and progress

British Science and Industry: What should the Government do?


British Science: a bright outlook for the future

Science: the roles of foresight and hindsight


A British Baccalaureate: some thoughts from Scotland

Paying for Science



The 2023 CaSE Annual Lecture was given by Prof Dame Angela McLean.

This year’s CaSE Annual Lecture, given by Kim Shillinglaw, explored how the UK can forge a deeper and broader public connection with research and innovation.

Read our write-up from the CaSE Annual Lecture 2021 given by the Director of the National Science Foundation, Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan.

Read our summary or watch back the entire CaSE Annual Lecture, given by the UKRI Chief Executive Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser on Thursday 5th November.

Read our summary or watch back the entire CaSE Annual Lecture, delivered by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

James Tooze reviews this year’s CaSE lecture on the role of government in the future success of AI, with a link to watch the lecture back in full.

23rd November saw the Chair of the Exiting the European Union Select Committee, the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, give the CaSE Annual Lecture 2017.

CaSE Policy Officer James Tooze summarises the CaSE Annual Lecture 2017, given by the Chair of the Exiting the European Union Select Committee, the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, on ‘Britain’s Place in the World’.