Publications

We believe physics can make a better world for us all. This strategy is the IOP’s vision for change, setting out the action we must take to ensure physics can achieve this potential.

Our latest report spotlights nine case studies of organisations playing a significant role in increasing awareness of apprenticeship opportunities.

This report captures the key themes from a celebratory dinner and roundtable discussion following the launch of the UK government’s quantum strategy.

This joint IOP-Royal Academy of Engineering report highlights issues in the UK semiconductor sector and makes suggestions for progress.

A report looking at the challenges and opportunities for physics-related apprenticeships in the UK and Ireland.

The IOP is developing a series of R&D blueprints to ensure the UK and Ireland secure leading roles in developing key scientific technologies, and through this harvest the substantial societal and economic benefits such leadership offers.

An IOP report that presents the vision of the physics community for the UK quantum sector. Here we outline our key recommendations for the government.

Review, authored by Frazer-Nash Consultancy, highlights the depth and breadth of research these facilities support, the unique capability that they offer and the value they provide. 

Such investment is a key funding type for companies working in physics-intensive sectors, with an increasing amount of funding coming from abroad. It provides a broad range of benefits to these industries, including job creation, increased working capital, and projects with high capital costs.

Our new project – including up-to-date summaries and full reports – shows that physics is a highly productive sector and a pillar of the UK and Irish economies.

The IOP provides new insight on the use of physics skills in the UK and Irish economies, including how this varies across occupations, industries and regions, and whether employers’ needs for physics skills are being met.

To discover more about companies that use physics innovation in their work, the IOP commissioned CBI Economics to undertake a survey of physics-based businesses.

Our guide is available in English and Welsh, including in accessible format.

A report compiled by the Enterprise Research Centre and commissioned by IOP as part of the Innovation Survey project, which looks at innovation in physics-based businesses.

Recommendations from participants in our workshop hosted with European member societies and aimed at delivering codes of conduct for the safety of conference and event attendees across Europe.

The IOP commissioned Censuswide to conduct two surveys and a series of focus groups to inform our Limit Less campaign. We also asked our members and subscribers to our Qubit newsletter to provide their own stories of lived experience related to the stereotypes and barriers that our campaign aims to dismantle.

In January 2020, Professor Robert Coe produced a paper to inform discussion at the Subjects Matter conference hosted by the IOP. The paper outlines some of the challenges faced by teachers and makes the case for subject-specific continuing professional development.

IOP report recommends a national system of subject-specific CPD for all teachers to help increase the quality of teaching in our schools, improve educational outcomes for all students, and boost economic growth and prosperity across the UK.

Our strategy to transform the physics landscape for the UK and Ireland, and ensure a thriving physics ecosystem that will contribute to innovation, discovery, research, growth and debate in the UK, Ireland and beyond.

This good practice guide in undergraduate physics undertaken in 2017 was to identify good practice in teaching and learning already adopted by physics departments and share this with others in the sector.

This report reviews research into barriers to STEM participation for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and provides five recommendations to improve educational attainment. 

A joint report by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) on the factors underlying the subject choices of ethnic-minority students.

This report highlights key findings from a site visit scheme, in which an external panel visited physics departments in the UK and Ireland and provided confidential reports on their "gender inclusiveness".