Judges

Rachel Dickens has worked as a designer for BBC Magazines since 2006 and is the Deputy Art Editor of science and technology magazine 'BBC Focus'. She has an honours degree in Illustration and a background in advertising design. In 2007 she was nominated for the PTC New Magazine Designer of the Year award.

Catherine Draycott has been Head of Wellcome Images, part of the Wellcome Library, since 1992. She is responsible for the development of the department to provide access to a comprehensive collection of images of medicine and its history for both individual users and the media. She has been a judge of the Wellcome Image Awards since their inception in 1997. She is a Director of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies and was its Chairman from 2000 to 2007.

Beau Lotto is a Reader in neuroscience and head of lottolab at University College London. His work attempts to understand why the brain 'sees' as it does, by studying, among other things, the behaviour and physiology of human, bee and robot vision. He is co-author of the book 'Why We See What We Do: An empirical theory of vision'. His public engagement work includes presentations and installations at art galleries (e.g. the Hayward Gallery), science museums, and on the radio and television (most recently BBC Radio 4's 'Leading Edge' and BBC 2's 'Coast' programme.

Vivienne Parry is a scientist by training and has presented 'Tomorrow's World', reported for Panorama and broadcasts regularly on Radio 4. She is medical science correspondent of 'The Times' and contributes features to the 'Guardian', the 'Mail on Sunday' and many other newspapers. She is science editor of 'Good Housekeeping' and also their agony aunt, 'Dear Viv'. Her most recent book, 'The Truth about Hormones', was critically acclaimed and shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis Science Prize.
Alice Roberts is a medical doctor and senior teaching fellow in anatomy at the University of Bristol. She regularly presents science television programmes including 'Time Team' and 'Coast', and most recently 'Dr Alice Roberts: Don't die young' for the BBC (and wrote the accompanying book, 'Don't Die Young: An anatomist's guide to your organs and health'). She is also an organiser of the Cheltenham Festival of Science and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences division.