IOP Member scoops Top 50 Women in Engineering award
Dr Katherine Dunn has been named as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s Top 50 Women in Engineering: Engineering Heroes for 2021. …
Nation and Branch committees
Find out more about the IOP Nation and Branch committees. …
Special interest group committees
Find out more about the IOP special interest group committees. …
Looking Glass: Society – a blueprint for the IOP?
Series one of the IOP’s podcast raises important questions about what it means to be a physicist, both today and in the world of tomorrow …
IOP Ireland Earnshaw Award
We are now accepting nominations for the prize that recognises achievement in physics among undergraduates in Ireland and Northern Ireland. …
Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
An innovative fund instigated by leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Institute of Physics to encourage greater diversity in physics by assisting PhD physics st…
Supporting Diversity and Inclusion through the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
The IOP was delighted to be asked by Jocelyn Bell Burnell to set up the Graduate Scholarship Fund using her Breakthrough Prize money, says Deputy Chief Executive Rachel Youngman. …
Helen Gleeson: determined to use the fund to make a difference
Professor Helen Gleeson, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Leeds and chair of the selection panel for the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund, is committed to opening up phys…
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: the woman behind the fund
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded many prizes and honours during her long career as an astrophysicist, including being made a Dame of the British Empire, a Professor at Oxford Unive…
Vanessa Emeka-Okafor: Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund awardee 2021
Thanks to encouragement and bags of hard work – and this fund – Vanessa is living her dream of studying exoplanets. She dismisses the idea of "genius" and promises that physicists can come from a…
Mary Richardson-Slipper: Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund awardee 2021
Mary’s story proves that girls who like science don’t have to be doctors or vets – they can help in the quest to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. …
Mei Ting Mak: Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund awardee 2021
Female and Asian, Mei Ting has often had to battle against the status quo. But she persevered and now models the atmosphere of far-off planets – could her work lead us to other lifeforms? …