The 2011 Judges were:

Chair:  

Colin Blakemore

President of the ABSW. Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology,Anatomy & Genetics. 

NB: Jeremy Webb, Editor in Chief, New Scientist stood in as Chair of the Judges as Colin was unable to attend the full meeting of the judges.  

Panel:

Leo Enright

Broadcaster, journalist, science communicator

Jacqueline Smith 

Director, Heirloom Media (winner 2010)

Caroline van den Brul

Former change leader, award winning BBC television producer and Guardian research fellow from Nuffield College, Oxford

Julia Durbin

Head of Special Projects BBC and a former executive producer of the BBC Radio Science Unit

Connie St.Louis

Acting Chair of the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), Broadcast Journalist and Director, Science Journalism MA, City University 

Adam Rutherford

Author, broadcaster and editor, Nature (winner 2010)

Peter Aldhous 

San Francisco Bureau Chief, New Scientist (winner 2010)

Robin McKie

Science Editor, The Observer (winner 2010)

Bob Ward 

Policy and Communications Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. ABSW Committee

Martin Ince

Martin Ince Communications Ltd. ABSW Committee

 

In 2010 the judges were as follows

Chair

Colin Blakemore
Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford,  and
President, Association of British Science Writers

Panel

Katrina Nevin-Ridley
Head of Media Relations, Wellcome Trust

Mark Peplow
News Editor, Nature

Tim Radford
Freelance Journalist

Connie St.Louis
Director, Science Journalism MA, City University

Geoff Watts
Freelance science and medical writer and broadcaster

Jeremy Webb
Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist magazine

Martin Freeth
Science Media Producer

Ed Yong
Science writer