Helen’s book ‘Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World’ has won the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Conservation writing...
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BBC Radio 4 welcomes brand new environmental series exploring the natural world...
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The Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute honoured Helen with the 2023 Marine Science Pioneer Award...
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Helen was delighted to receive an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of East Anglia...
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The United Kingdom National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has announced eight incredible new ambassadors…
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The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced today that Helen Czerski, University College London, London, England, is the 2021 recipient of the Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award…
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Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate will chair the Baillie Gifford Prize judging panel for the 2021 awards.
Andrew Holgate is joined by award winning novelist Sara Collins, the physicist, oceanographer, writer and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski, the biographer and critic Kathryn Hughes, author and TV and radio presenter Johny Pitts, and historian and writer Dominic Sandbrook…
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The biggest difficulty of climate change is that the challenges and choices are complicated. Where’s the simple clear way to look at things that will make the decisions easy? Well, maybe there isn’t just one way to see things, and maybe that’s ok.
We (Chris Jackson, Helen Czerski & Tara Shine) have had lots of opportunities to think about this as we prepare our Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for 2020. We all feel that being able to understand multiple complementary perspectives is critical, and so we have each picked three to help you consider our present and our future on Planet Earth…
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In November 2020, Helen was elected an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge (where she did both her undergraduate degree and PhD)…
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In addition to her role as a Trustee of the Royal Museums Greenwich, Helen is presenting a series of Royal Museums Greenwich ‘At Home’ webcasts - Ships, Sea and the Stars…
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It is stating the obvious to say that strange days have got a hell of a lot stranger with many people facing confusion and anxiety during this COVID-19 pandemic. Artists have nowhere to play and audiences have nowhere to go. The Cosmic Shambles Network is hosting a ‘Stay at Home Festival’. Helen is taking part - with a Family Science Club is at 11am every Saturday, and the Science Q&A is at 3pm every Sunday…
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The British Science Association (BSA) have today revealed the cohort of Honorary Fellows for 2019 – the highest honour that the BSA can confer on an individual…
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There seems to be lots of grumpiness around at the moment, and lots of big-picture hero/villain, black/white, binary opinion stuff. A real lack of nuance. So every day until Christmas Helen will be ...
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On the 24th of September, it was announced that the Prime Minister has appointed Dr Fiona Butcher, Professor Julian Dowdeswell and Dr Helen Czerski as Trustees of the Royal Museums Greenwich…
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Helen has joined a joint Swedish and American research expedition to the “High Arctic”, up near the north pole. She will spend eight weeks on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden …
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Helen has been awarded the 2019 Louis J Battan Author's Award for her book ‘Storm in a Teacup’.
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Helen is awarded the 2018 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin medal and prize.
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Helen is very excited to be joining a stellar cast of astronauts, comedians and musicians on stage…
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'Storm in a Teacup', Helen’s first book, has just been announced as the joint winner of the Asimov Prize.
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Four new patrons of Humanists UK were announced today...
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