Professional Groups

News from the Women in Physics Group

Libby Heaney from the University of Leeds has been awarded the HSBC/Institute of Physics Very Early Career Award. 

See IOP News for more information.

The HSBC and Institute of Physics Award for the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year

We are delighted to announce that the Women in Physics Group will announce and present the award for the 2008 £1000 HSBC prize to the winner of the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year at a special student event on the afternoon of Wednesday 20 February.

The prize is awarded annually to a woman who is within three years of completing her undergraduate degree in physics and who is either working as a physicist or is engaged in postgraduate study. Please see Forthcoming Events for more information about the forthcoming award ceremony.

The Women in Physics Group are delighted to congratulate Jocelyn Bell Burnell on becoming a Dame, and Ann Marks (previous Chair of the Women in Physics Group) on her MBE.

Young female physicist, Liz Ainsbury, receives prize for leukaemia

Young physicist Liz Ainsbury has been rewarded by HSBC and Institute of Physics for her research in magnetic field physics. She has studied whether there is a link between extremely low frequency magnetic fields and health effects such as childhood leukaemia.

Physicists and Primary Schools Website

A website providing materials to help physicists with outreach activities in primary schools.

Launched on 4 April 2006 at the Institute of Physics.

Women in University Physics Departments: Institute of Physics Site Visits Report (Feb 2006)

An Institute Report on the University Site Visits Scheme - a series of panel visits to university physics departments offering feedback and advice to departments on gender friendliness.

Newsletters

No 11 October 2006
No 10 April 2005
No 9 May 2004
No 8 March 2003

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