8 March 2024
27 February 2024
We are delighted to announce the recipients of our 2024 Awards, before the formal award presentation at Burlington House on 12 June 2024, on President's Day.
3 March 2023
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Awards recipients, with the formal award presentation to take place at Burlington House on 14 June 2023 on President's Day.
3 January 2023
It is our great pleasure to announce that renowned palaeontologist and past President of The Geological Society, Richard Alan Fortey, has been awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the 2023 New Year's Honours List.
18 July 2022
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Simon Thompson as the next Chief Executive of the Geological Society, following the retirement of our present Executive Secretary, Richard Hughes on 31 October 2022.
The Geological Society supports Glastonbury’s brand new ‘Science Futures’ area
14 June 2022
Over 200,000 festivalgoers can learn about climate change, space travel, plant power and much more in the newest addition to Glastonbury’s science line up thanks to support from the Geological Society and Responsible Raw Materials.
13 June 2022
Lyme Regis Museum on the Dorset coast is celebrating the life and work of one the town’s most famous daughters, Mary Anning, with a rarely seen portrait of the renowned paleontologist (on loan from us), an exhibition featuring one of her rare ichthyosaurs and a stunning newly discovered genus and species of extinct marine ‘crocodile’ found by two local fossil hunters.
25 February 2022
We are delighted to announce the 2022 winners of our medals, funds and awards.
Professional Bodies in STEM call on Government ahead of spending review
8 October 2021
The Science Council, alongside 26 of its member organisations have written a joint letter to Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, regarding the upcoming Spending Review. The spending review will set departmental Resource and Capital DEL budgets from 2022-23 to 2024-25.
31 March 2021
The Geological Society is pleased to announce the second new, multi-year theme for Society activities – Geohazards, Geoengineering and Georesilience. This is a complex and broad theme, and to acknowledge this, the Geological Society have nominated a team of three scientists to lead the multiple strands of the programme: Dr Anna Hicks (British Geological Survey) theme leader, and two deputy theme leaders - Dr Aggeliki Georgiopoulou (University of Brighton) and Dr Irene Manzella (University of Plymouth).
The Geological Society is pleased to announce the 2021 winners of our medals, funds and awards.
1 February 2021
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