Find below summaries of our lectures back to 1987, and links to recordings of some of the more recent events.
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
2023 – Prof Dame Angela McLean, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Scientific advice to government
2022 – Kim Shillinglaw, Chair Discovery Decade Project
We need to talk about science
2021 – Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation
Placing science and innovation at the heart of the US and UK’s future
2020 – Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, Chief Executive UKRI
The research and innovation system: fuelling an inclusive knowledge economy
2019 – Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Embedding Research in the Heart of Government
2018 – Prof Al-Khalili, Prof Dame Wendy Hall & Prof Alan Winfield
Making Artificial Intelligence A Reality
2017 – Hilary Benn MP, Chair of the Brexit Select Committee
Britain’s Place in the World
2016 – CaSE's 30th Anniversary Event
Shaping the Future of Science
2015 – Jo Johnson, Universities & Science Minister
Making the UK the best place in the world to do science
2014 – Prof Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist
NASA’s Journey to Mars
2013 – Prof Anne Glover CBE, EU Chief Scientific Advisor
What’s the use of evidence?
2012 – Lord Heseltine
An Industrial Strategy
2011- John Denham MP, Shadow Business Secretary
Science and Growth
2010 – Lord Drayson, Adam Afriyie MP, Evan Harris MP
Pre-election debate on Science and Engineering
2009 – Prof John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Advisor
Science in Government: Challenges for the 21st Century
2007 – David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, University and Skills
Science and Education
2006 – Lord May of Oxford, former President of the Royal Society and former Government Chief Scientific Adviser
How to stimulate creativity and how to stifle it
2005 – Professor Sir David King, the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser
An insider’s view of science in Government
2004 – Rt Hon Chris Patten, Former Governor of Hong Kong, and Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities
Research – The European Challenge
2003 – Howard Dalton, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
2002 – Sir Gareth Roberts, President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and of the Science Council
2001 – Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel Laureate, member of the SBS Advisory Council
The Internet and Science, Technology and Engineering Education
2000 – Dr Mike Dexter, Director of the Wellcome Trust
Where would UK science be without the charities?
1999 – Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Group Vice President of Technology at BP Amoco
Science, energy and progress
1998 – John Redwood MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
British Science and Industry: What should the Government do?
1997 – Margaret Beckett MP, President of the Board of Trade
1996 – Ian Taylor MP MBE, Minister for Science
British Science: a bright outlook for the future
1995 – Sir Derek Roberts CBE FRS FEng, Provost of UCL
Science: the roles of foresight and hindsight
1993 – John Smith MP, Leader of the Opposition
1992 – Prof J.M.Howie FRSE
A British Baccalaureate: some thoughts from Scotland
1989 – The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP
Paying for Science
1988 – Lord Adrian FRS, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology
1987 – Sir James Lighthill, Provost of UCL
Annual Lecture 2023 – Science advice to government
23 November 2023
The 2023 CaSE Annual Lecture was given by Prof Dame Angela McLean.
CaSE Annual Lecture 2022 – We need to talk about science
09 March 2023
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.
CaSE Annual Lecture 2021 with the Director of the NSF
17 November 2021
Read our write-up from the CaSE Annual Lecture 2021 given by the Director of the National Science Foundation, Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan.
CaSE Annual Lecture 2020 with the Chief Executive of UKRI
11 November 2020
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.
CaSE Annual Lecture 2019 – Embedding Science in the Heart of Government
23 January 2020
Read our summary or watch back the entire CaSE Annual Lecture, delivered by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance
CaSE Annual Lecture 2018: ‘Making Artificial Intelligence A Reality’
20 December 2018
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.
CaSE Annual Lecture 2017 with Hilary Benn MP
30 November 2017
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.
Britain’s Place in the World
29 November 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’.