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.
Registration is open for CaSE's 2024 Annual Lecture
This years lecture will be delivered by Ilan Gur, CEO of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) on December 12th.
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’.