Archive for the ‘Physics around the UK’ Category
Top 40 Work Placements: Tom Dale’s project work is now used on a daily basis at Kromek
Want to spend your summer doing physics? This year the Institute of Physics is again offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students in the UK and Ireland bursaries to carry out eight-week summer placements. Find out how to apply. We’ll be finding out what last summer’s placement students got up to. Tom Dale is in the final [...]
Top 40 Work Placements: Fiona Muirhead on her summer spent studying radar
Want to spend your summer doing physics? This year the Institute of Physics is again offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students in the UK and Ireland bursaries to carry out eight-week summer placements. Find out how to apply. Over the next few weeks we’ll be finding out what last summer’s placement students got up to. Today [...]
Top 40 Work Placements: How Christian Donnerer used his physics degree to help conserve endangered tigers
Want to spend your summer doing physics? This year the Institute of Physics is again offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students in the UK and Ireland bursaries to carry out eight-week summer placements. Find out how to apply. Over the next few weeks we’ll be finding out what last summer’s placement students got up to. [...]
What do girls think of the shortage of women in science and engineering?
The shortage of women in science and engineering has been highlighted in the media a lot recently. The UK’s engineering workforce is only 9% female and, as a recent IOP report showed that 49% of state schools send no girls go on to take A-level physics, this is likely to get worse before it gets [...]
Past winner of ‘I’m a scientist…’ competition, Adam Tuff, on how he became a physicist
Past winner of “I’m a Scientist… Get Me Out of Here!” Adam Tuff tells us how he ended up in the competition and how he used his prize money. This year’s competition runs from Monday 11 to Friday 22 March. You can follow along online at imascientist.org.uk or on Twitter with @imascientist and #ias2013.
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Today’s physics news: Cassini prepares to take a new Pale Blue Dot image of Earth; physicists find a ‘new and mysterious’ particle
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Today’s physics news: Europe’s Herschel telescope switched off, as ExoMars missions set for 2016 launch
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Student teacher: Learning to teach is harder than doing three PhDs
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