The BGA Committee seeks nominations for the 2026 Bullerwell Lecturer – the BGA’s most prestigious award.

The Lecturer will be given a budget to present their talk on a lecture tour including their choice of UK Universities. They will also be expected to present the lecture at the BGA Post-Graduate Research in Progress meeting held around mid-September. Reasonable expenses will be met for these. 

The lecturer will be asked to write the lecture up as an article for publication in the journal, Astronomy and Geophysics.

The nomination form is provided below. The Bullerwell Lectureship is awarded to an outstanding early-career geoscientist in recognition of their contribution to geophysics in the UK. It requires a short (no more than 200 words) statement concerning the reasons for the nomination, together with a list of no more than four of the nominee’s recent publications. Nominees must be within 10 years of gaining their PhDs, but the committee will account for time taken on maternity or paternity leave, career breaks due to illness or special circumstances. Other periods of absence will be considered at the discretion of the committee. Current BGA Committee members are ineligible for this award.

Please download and submit by email the Bullerwell 2026 nomination form.

Please ensure that the nomination is submitted on the form provided. No other form of submission will be considered.

Nomination deadline: Friday 10th October 2025