Work placement student Stephen Wells: “what use is that esoteric theory? Er, howzabout that extra terabyte in your hard drive?”
This year’s IOP Top 40 Work Placement students have now completed their placements and we’re finding out what they got up to. Today it’s the turn of Stephen Wells, who has just gone into his 4th year of an MSci Physics degree at Queen’s University Belfast. This summer he spent eight weeks on placement at […]
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IOP Teacher Training Scholarships 2014: Meet Charlotte….
The IOP Teacher Training Scholarships programme returns for 2014 with even more opportunity for the very best people to train to teach physics. The shortage of physics teachers in England is still prevalent, so the scholarships have been topped up this year to help attract even more potential physics teachers into the classroom. We’ll be […]
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Work placement student Josh Evans: “They’re all interested to read something that I, a humble intern, have produced”
This year’s IOP Top 40 Work Placement students have now completed their placements and we’re finding out what they got up to. Today it’s the turn of Josh Evans, who has just started the fourth year of his master’s degree in physics at the University of Exeter. His two month placement took place at G24i […]
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Work placement student Stephen Hibbert: “There was a steep learning curve and several challenges to overcome”
This year’s IOP Top 40 Work Placement students have now completed their placements and we’re finding out what they got up to. Today it’s the turn of Stephen Hibbert, physics student from the University of Birmingham, who undertook a summer work placement at Oxford Instruments. My work placement is at Oxford Instruments NanoScience, an established […]
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Daily news
Today’s physics news: Higgs collects Nobel, Mars One launches student competition and Nasa pictures Earth-Moon dance
Mars One invites school pupils to design first mission
Today’s physics news: A lake found on Mars, boost for female postgraduate engineers and Curiosity goes after carbon clues
Lake on Mars could have teemed with microbial life
Today’s physics news: State schools ‘reinforcing gender stereotypes’ and UK ranked first for research quality
State schools ‘making gender bias worse’
Physics videos
Physics videos, 9 August 2013: YouTube Geek Week physics review
This week is YouTube Geek Week. We’re joining in the celebration and have gathered up some of the best physics bits from YouTube’s content drive for your perusal…
Education
IOP Teacher Training Scholarships 2014: Meet Richard…
Last month we introduced you to Charlotte, a current trainee teacher and IOP Scholar. Charlotte kicked off the IOP Teacher Training Scholarships programme for 2014, which awards £25,000 to exceptional people committed to physics teacher training in the 2014/15 academic year. This month we meet Richard; a current trainee physics teacher and recipient of an […]
Physics around the UK
Work placement student Stephen Wells: “what use is that esoteric theory? Er, howzabout that extra terabyte in your hard drive?”
This year’s IOP Top 40 Work Placement students have now completed their placements and we’re finding out what they got up to. Today it’s the turn of Stephen Wells, who has just gone into his 4th year of an MSci Physics degree at Queen’s University Belfast. This summer he spent eight weeks on placement at […]
Physics around the world
FIFA 14 calls in the help of Isaac Newton
Michael Bishop, IOP’s press officer and football enthusiast, explores the physics-based approach to the new FIFA 14 game.
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Today’s physics news: Higgs collects Nobel, Mars One launches student competition and Nasa pictures Earth-Moon dance
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Today’s physics news: State schools ‘reinforcing gender stereotypes’ and UK ranked first for research quality
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