News archive 2019

19 December 2019
City Hall, the headquarters of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, was the venue of an event to celebrate the London schools and nurseries working with the Mayor’s Office to improve gender equality. 

20 November 2019
Yesterday evening, IOP President Jonathan Flint CBE and CEO Professor Paul Hardaker welcomed award winners and guests at the 2019 IOP Awards event in London. Deputy Chief Executive Rachel Youngman also marked the launch of our 100th year.

13 November 2019
Dr Yvonne Kavanagh, Chair of the Institute of Physics in Ireland (IOPI) and Assistant Registrar Institute of Technology Carlow, comments on the Joint Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation’s recommendation that Ireland becomes an associate member of CERN.

7 November 2019
Today, International Day of Medical Physics, the Mayneord Phillips Educational Programme launches its 2021 Summer School. The theme will be Advances in Solid State Detectors for Early Diagnosis.

1 November 2019
The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund, which aims to encourage greater diversity in physics, is now open for applications.

29 October 2019
Returning for its 33rd year, our Teachers of Physics awards celebrate the achievements of teachers in raising the profile of physics and science in schools across the UK.

23 October 2019
Five winners in four categories - secondary school; further education and higher education; business and/or facilities and team - are the first technicians to be recognised by the IOP.

16 October 2019
Institute of Physics recognises innovation and entrepreneurship of physics-based businesses.

10 October 2019
As he begins his tenure as President of the IOP, Jonathan Flint CBE speaks about his aspirations for the next two years.

8 October 2019
Professor Paul Hardaker, CEO at the Institute of Physics, congratulates the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics.

1 October 2019
Jonathan Flint CBE today begins his tenure as President of the Institute of Physics. He has been President-elect since October 2017 and will now serve for two years as President.

12 September 2019

The IOP welcomes the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s report on the balance and effectiveness of research and innovation spending and echoes many of its recommendations.

10 September 2019
Will a ‘no deal’ Brexit affect the UK physics community and what steps are being taken by the UK government and the EU to mitigate negative consequences?

4 September 2019
Professor Paul Hardaker, CEO of the Institute of Physics, comments on the 2019 Spending Round.

29 August 2019
Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Dame Sue Ion, Professor Ian Munro and Professor Donna Strickland join the list of esteemed physicists to have received the highest honour that the Institute of Physics can bestow.

9 August 2019
Professor Paul Hardaker, Chief Executive Officer of the IOP, has responded to the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday of a proposed restructuring of immigration rules.

17 July 2019
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has announced an ambitious new strategy to transform the physics landscape for the UK and Ireland, and ensure a thriving physics eco-system that will contribute to innovation, discovery, research, growth and debate in the UK, Ireland and beyond.

27 June 2019
In an unprecedented joint statement, a coalition representing some of the UK’s leading businesses, minds, universities and charities, including the Institute of Physics, is calling on the next Prime Minister to put research and innovation at the heart of their plan for UK prosperity, post-Brexit. 

26 June 2019
Along with our counterparts at the Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Astronomical Society, the IOP recently reached out to the LGBT+ community working in science to ask about the working culture from their perspective. The results are published today.

24 June 2019
The Institute of Physics was proud to endorse two awards as part of the 2018 Primary Science Teacher Awards, which were presented at the Celebration Dinner at Dynamic Earth as part of the Primary Science Education Conference (PSEC 2019).

14 June 2019
Government has today announced it will invest £153 million into the National Quantum Technologies Programme. Institute of Physics CEO, Professor Paul Hardaker, said: “This funding sends a very positive message about the UK’s commitment to the quantum programme and the many benefits which will come from this."

14 June 2019
Seven Institute of Physics members have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours list. 

13 June 2019
Today the IOP celebrates becoming the first official supporter of the Technician Commitment outside of the higher education sector coupled with the launch of its Technician Commitment action plan.

7 June 2019
This week’s Science and the Assembly event in Cardiff once again brought together scientists, politicians and science educators from schools colleges and HEIs, to share experiences, good practice and recommendations for teaching and curriculum development. 

14 May 2019
When we measure something, it is in units like metres, kilograms or seconds and these units are fixed. At least they are since a 2018 vote to define the last remaining unstable units – the kilogram, kelvin, ampere and mole – by fundamental constants of nature.

26 April 2019
26 April is world intellectual property day. But what does intellectual property have to do with physics?

26 April 2019
IOP Accelerator offers 1,000 square feet of co-working and private office space in our brand new building in the heart of King’s Cross and London’s Knowledge Quarter.

11 April 2019
On April 10 2019, astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope released the first-ever image of a black hole.

3 April 2019
Emeritus Professor Michael Coey has been awarded the 2019 Max Born Medal and Prize. 

19 March 2019
The IOP and leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell have launched a new PhD scholarship fund to encourage greater diversity in physics.

11 March 2019
Members of the UK industrial physics community gathered at the IOP’s London headquarters on Tuesday, 26 February for the inaugural Business Innovation and Growth Conference. 

15 February 2019
Plan S, an initiative that aims rapidly to accelerate the transition to open access scientific publishing, was launched by Science Europe in September 2018.  

15 February 2019
We’ve teamed up with Girlguiding Nottinghamshire to launch a new “I am a physicist” challenge and badge for would-be physicists.