Royce Phase 2
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
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Publications
Abdulrhman M
(2022)
Routes towards manufacturing biodegradable electronics with polycaprolactone (PCL) via direct light writing and electroless plating
in Flexible and Printed Electronics
Aboura Y
(2022)
Understanding the environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) initiation and propagation of new generation 7xxx alloys using slow strain rate testing
in Corrosion Science
Adassooriya NM
(2023)
Dielectric behaviour of plasma hydrogenated TiO2/cyanoethylated cellulose nanocomposites.
in Nanoscale
Ali SM
(2022)
Design of Flexible Meander Line Antenna for Healthcare in Wireless Body Area Network Systems.
in Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Ali SM
(2022)
Low-profile Button Sensor Antenna Design for Wireless Medical Body Area Networks.
in Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Arul R
(2022)
Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms.
in Light, science & applications
Aspinall J
(2022)
Mechanics of lithium metal at the nanoscale
Aspinall J
(2022)
EBSD-coupled indentation: nanoscale mechanics of lithium metal
in Materials Today Energy
Avcu E
(2022)
The effect of reduced graphene oxide content on the microstructural and mechanical properties of copper metal matrix composites
in Materials Science and Engineering: A
Awang Draup A
(2022)
Modelling of friction stir welded AA2139 aluminium alloy panels in tension and blast
in International Journal of Impact Engineering
| Description | Cabinet Office/GO-Science |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Invited to give evidence at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in its inquiry into plastic waste |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31509/documents/176742/default/ |
| Description | Phase 3 of UK NQTP |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | 14C speciation sizewell B PWR |
| Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | EDF Energy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | 21BBSRC-NSF/BIO - Evolving quantum mechanical tunnelling in enzymes |
| Amount | £492,473 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/X000974/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | 21EBTA: Engineering Biology with Synthetic Genomes (EBSynerGy) |
| Amount | £1,329,012 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/W014483/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | A Bottom-up Approach to Understand How Enzyme Structural Fluctuations Accelerate Multistep Reactions |
| Amount | € 1,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | RGP0004/2022 |
| Organisation | Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | France |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | A new platform for discovering biomarkers of early lung cancer |
| Amount | £98,637 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EDDPMA-Nov21\100040 |
| Organisation | Cancer Research UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | AMFaces: Advanced Additive Manufacturing of User-Focused Facial Prostheses with Real-Life Colour Appearance |
| Amount | £5,540,752 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W033968/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 11/2027 |
| Description | Additive Manufacture of Advanced Aluminium Alloys |
| Amount | £152,369 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | DSTL0000009033 |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Biocatalytic Routes to Key Global Health Drugs (Phase I-IIII) |
| Amount | $1,900,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | CASE award NDA and NNL |
| Amount | £139,628 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 07/2026 |
| Description | CASE award UKAEA |
| Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Case award NDA |
| Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Design and Evolution of Photoenzymes for Triplet Energy Transfer Catalysis |
| Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | GAP-101087358 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2028 |
| Description | Diode area melting - a novel re-configurable multi-laser approach for efficient additive manufacturing with enhanced thermal process control |
| Amount | £629,880 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W024764/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Direct cold sintering of functional ceramics onto polymer circuit boards: a new low energy manufacturing route in electronics |
| Amount | £202,341 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X016463/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | EPSRC IAA - A new rapid automated pipeline for healthcare R&D S15570 |
| Amount | £35,597 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | EconoMISER |
| Amount | £1,330,652 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | EconoMISER |
| Amount | £19,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Engineering cellular stress for enhanced extracellular bioproduction |
| Amount | £515,759 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T005742/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | H2terascale - Improved oxygen evolution catalysis to enable terawatt scale hydrogen production |
| Amount | £252,705 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W033232/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | HNB decommissioning |
| Amount | £227,317 (GBP) |
| Organisation | EDF Energy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 11/2023 |
| Description | High-specification nanofabrication equipment: enabling increased capability and capacity for electronics, spintronics, photonics, and bioelectronics. |
| Amount | £2,587,981 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W006472/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | High-yield renewable hydrocarbon production |
| Amount | £1,426,353 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Shell Global Solutions International BV |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | KTP with Saraco Industries Limited |
| Amount | £279,839 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10001791 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Looking below the surface: Revealing Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Electrochemical Technologies |
| Amount | £1,522,213 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V024558/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | Molecular mapping of SARS-CoV2 and the host response with multiomics mass spectrometry to stratify disease outcomes |
| Amount | £1,736,024 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/V011456/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | New perspectives in photocatalysis and near-surface chemistry: catalysis meets plasmonics |
| Amount | £7,902,074 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W017075/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 05/2028 |
| Description | Novel Tendon Repair - Gap Analysis in preparation for a first in man trial |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | Optimisation of CHO for Biotherapeutic Manufacture |
| Amount | £3,608,961 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V038095/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Pnictogen-based semiconductors for harvesting ambient light to power autonomous electronics PNICTO-HARVEST |
| Amount | € 1,500,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Provision of a Research team to Support in Graphite Structural Integrity - additional support |
| Amount | £1,908,363 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Office of Nuclear Regulation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | ReTendon: development of a novel tendon repair device that accelerates healing and reduces re-rupture of tendons |
| Amount | £671,890 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | Terahertz frequency devices and systems for ultrahigh capacity wireless communications |
| Amount | £7,097,283 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W028921/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Description | Unravelling the invisible complexities of the genome |
| Amount | £1,508,571 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/W00738X/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2026 |
| Description | [16-FAPESP-BE] Lignin valorization in cellulosic ethanol plants: biocatalytic conversion via ferulic acid to high value chemicals |
| Amount | £2,082,439 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/P01738X/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | cLEO Project |
| Amount | £50,707 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Smith and Nephew |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Title | NMC_highres.7z |
| Description | Three phase Li-ion cathode mesostructural dataset, as generated by the Super-Resolution technique developed by the tldr group (Case 4 in the referenced paper). The NMC cathode dataset is 18803 voxels, for a 94 µm edge length cubic volume at 50 nm resolution. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Unknown |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/NMC_highres_7z/19435778/1 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering" |
| Description | This data set contains the experimental and simulation data for the manuscript. This includes SERS spectra and data, XPS data, and simulations. All files are given in .txt. Please see the read me file for further information how the repository is organized. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not yet available |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/340442 |
| Description | Digital printing antimicrobial/antibiofilm materials onto moisture sensitive advanced woundcare substrates |
| Organisation | 5D Health Protection Group Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developed an inkjet delivery mechanism to apply antimicrobial compounds to wound dressings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tested the anti-microbial efficacy of the printed medical devices |
| Impact | In progress |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Joint collaborative research project with IAEA on small scale testing standardisation for nuclear materials |
| Organisation | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Joint collaborative testing of specified materials over a multi year project, working towards standardising testing methods, sampling sizes and sample preparation methods for small amounts of nuclear materials for future reactor designs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing of known materials to set parameters - contribution of dataset. |
| Impact | Will be an IAEA TECDOC, still in preparation as still active. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Call for Provision of academic access to Royce facilities at NNL (2022 - Still Active) |
| Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research project proposals published via NDA on nuclear garphite, advanced fuels and legacy glass & ceramic waste characterisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research proposals published via NDA strategy team |
| Impact | NA - too early in process as of March 2023 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Call for Provision of academic access to Royce facilities at NNL (2022 - Still Active) |
| Organisation | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research project proposals published via NDA on nuclear garphite, advanced fuels and legacy glass & ceramic waste characterisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research proposals published via NDA strategy team |
| Impact | NA - too early in process as of March 2023 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | 13th Annual International Student Conference in Metallic Materials 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Our aim is to provide postgraduate students and young professional researchers with a valuable opportunity to present their work in a supportive environment. We also encourage them to establish links with other students, academics, and professionals at the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2022 Impulse Entrepreneurship Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Royce has sponsored five places on the Impulse 2022 programme. The same is expected to be continued in 2023. Any University of Cambridge researcher (including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) working in materials science was offered the opportunity to apply. Candidates were required to have a business idea that has potential for commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/impulse |
| Description | 2022 Maxwell Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An overview of the materials science research being undertaken across West Cambridge, much of which involves the use of Royce facilities at Cambridge. This event attracted a wide range of attendees including postgraduate students giving short talks on their research; local SMEs involved in academic-industry research at Cambridge; the Academic Director of R&D at NSG Pilkington speaking on work on decarbonising glass. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/annual-research-showcase-2022 |
| Description | 2022 UK Chapter of the World Materials Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The World Materials Forum is an initiative founded in 2015 in France in order to decouple economic growth and materials consumption, while creating value for industry. The aims include using materials smarter, using them less and for longer, and developing breakthrough technologies and new business models. The event comprised three focused small-group discussion sessions between senior decision-makers, involving company CEOs, academics and entrepreneurs. 2020's three topics were: decarbonising bulk materials (with focus on steel and glass); stationary batteries for storage performance; and energy efficient electronics. The event held in Cambridge included an academic and business delegation from France, along with the CEO's of CRU, Polysolar, Nyobolt; deputies for the CEO's of Tata and E.ON; CTO's of NSG Pilkington, the Materials Processing Institute, and Paragraf; as well as other UK based researchers and companies. Royce@Cambridge helped facilitate this event, with Royce researchers taking part in the discussion sessions and the attendees given tours of the Royce facilities in West Cambridge along with an introduction to the research work being completed on Royce equipment and the wider aims of the UK Royce Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/D1jW1Ado6CmNRRAw |
| Description | 2ND UK ADVANCED MATERIALS WORKSHOP 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The aims of these workshops are to discuss and share knowledge with organisations having an interest in the safe commercialisation of Advanced Materials.Our February 2023 workshop will focus on safety by design, and we look to industry to share their experience on the manufacturing of new advanced materials as well as looking at successful case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AI/Direct evolution focus meeting 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anthony Green Presented at the AI/Direct evolution focus meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022. Will Parnell - The mathematics of (Meta)materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advanced Materials Show conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Free-to-attend exhibition and world-class conference dedicated to high-performance materials technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advanced Materials: Towards a more sustainable society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Engaging with 100 members of a science and engineering society talking about materials and net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Anthony Green - presenting New Biocatalytic Routes to Global Health Drugs at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anthony Green - presenting New Biocatalytic Routes to Global Health Drugs at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Article in Materials World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Article published highlighting collaborations and specific work between Royce partners in the UK in nuclear materials, and the nuclear Royce facilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | BT Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A one-day in-person workshop involving a team of 17 research staff from BT and several PIs from across the West Cambridge departments exploring possible new research avenues in materials for telecommunications. Two follow-up meetings have been arranged which will include researchers from the wider Royce network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Be Curious 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stall with scientific demos at a festival showing research at the University of Leeds to the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious |
| Description | Bragg Centre Opening University of Leeds 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A new centre for research into the analysis and development of advanced materials has launched at the University of Leeds. The Bragg Centre brings together engineers, physical scientists, and materials science researchers from across the University, further removing boundaries between disciplines and opening up new ways of working. The Centre aims to discover, create, characterise, and exploit materials engineered at the atomic and molecular level. Its interdisciplinary research combines the fundamental understanding, design, modelling and fabrication of materials to lead to new devices, systems and applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/university-of-leeds-open-new-bragg-centre-for-materials-research/ |
| Description | Bragg Centre PhD colloquim |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a research workshop for PhD students with a focus on future careers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Bruker Nano Surfaces: Nanowizard V Workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In partnership with Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology, the workshop will be an opportunity to learn about the NanoWizard V BioAFM and the research taking place at The University of Sheffield using AFM technology. Practical demonstrations will be available on the day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cambridge Biomaterials event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A small event to showcase biomaterials and chemical engineering projects across West Cambridge. Royce@Cambridge facilitated part of the activities and exhibited a poster at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Ceramic Innovation Network Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The 2022 Ceramic Innovation Network (CIN) event will bring together academics and industrialists from all subsectors of the ceramic industry seeking to explore the challenges of bridging the gap from the lab to product and developing the next generation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/ceramic-innovation-network-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Cleanroom Training Course (16th-20th January 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge co-organised the three-day in-person training event held in Leeds in January 2023. The training course will be replicated at other Royce partners. Cambridge is expected to host the event in 2025. Hosted at the University of Leeds' state-of-the-art nanotechnology cleanroom, in collaboration with Swansea University and the University of Cambridge, this technically focussed course will explore basic practices and techniques for cleanroom use. Through a combination of taught lectures, discussion sessions, and practical training participants will gain fundamental skills for working in 'clean-fab' cleanrooms. The content will develop theoretical and practical knowledge in processes such as lithography, deposition, and etching; by the end of the week attendees will have made a Field Effect Transistor. This course is suitable for any new user of cleanrooms. This includes those currently undertaking a PhD or postdoctoral research, working in academia or within the semiconductor industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-micro-and-nano-fabrication/ |
| Description | Close-NIT Network+ Launch Event 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The EPSRC/MRC-funded Close-NIT Network+ aims to connect experts from academia, industry and medicine to address the key challenges facing closed-loop neural interfaces (CNITs). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cluster Tool Open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A small event to raise awareness of the Cambridge Cluster Tool. 8 attendees from the local Cambridge area. This led to several projects being proposed that were funded by Royce@Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colchester Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | As part of an introduction to university courses for lower sixth students, Andrew Dobrzanski promoted materials science courses and Discover Materials. Flyers and resources were provided by Royce (Tom Hancocks) with much interest from students on a subject they'd not previously heard about. Reach 30+ students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk at the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) 2022 international conference discussing the NanoSIMS results acquired as part of this project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2022/ |
| Description | DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION OF NEXT-GENERATION ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS meeting 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The meeting aims to develop interactions between scientists with backgrounds from chemistry, physics, biology and engineering, with interests in all aspects of optoelectronic materials research from synthetic, theoretical, spectroscopy, optics, to real-world devices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | DISCOVER MATERIALS AT CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Discover Materials members and ambassadors ran an activity-packed Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) workshop for three groups of 11-14 year olds and their teachers to mark the opening of Cheltenham Science Festival 2022. The visiting groups of students at the STEM festival learned all about what makes MSE so exciting before getting stuck in to a range of hands-on activities to apply lessons in interesting and engaging ways. The students were finally presented with a challenge to report back on what they had learned in order to crack a code to unlock a secret stash of chocolate bars hidden within a treasure chest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | DNA Origami - Research in Schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A project to engage A-level students with cutting edge materials research, via a DNA nanotechnology research project. The research project is done in student's school laboratories. Feedback from the project has been extremely positive, with some students changing their degree programme to materials science projects. We were also awarded an award at the IRIS Awards, for ''Outstanding Partner' for work on the DNA Origami project. The DNA Origami project was also part of two other awards, including Best Research Project, for Tapton School, where students took DNA construction to a higher level, creating a Tesla valve which lets fluid to flow in one direction, with no moving parts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://researchinschools.org/projects/dna-origami/ |
| Description | Digital film of the capabilities and equipment in the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An film of the capabilities and equipment in the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub for the purpose of showcasing the work of the SMI Hub to a general audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7UfGgyWnhs |
| Description | Dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The conference will present and disseminate the latest developments in XCT for dimensional measurement and its industrial impact across a variety of applications. Academics, industrialists and engineers from a wide range of disciplines, will have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, results and showcase their latest research at this international forum, featuring a series of keynote addresses from experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/dxct-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Directed Evolution workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | workshop exploring how to accelerate biocatalyst discovery/deliver and engineer biocatalysts up to an order of magnitude faster than the current time frame. Plans made for further related activity and collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discover Materials Ambassador Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Meet fellow Discover Materials Ambassadors and members of the Working group and we will be discussing effective ways in engaging schools and the public and launching our Discover Materials Engagement Grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr A Pyne - Tackling topology using TopoStats |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Scientific talk highlighting research conducted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://jila.colorado.edu/smb/ |
| Description | Dr Alice Pyne "TopoStats - a new pipeline for automating AFM analysis" (Henry Royce Data Management workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Data management workshop for networking and dissiminate research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/workshop-data-management-for-materials-researchers/ |
| Description | Dr Alice Pyne "Visualizing supercoiled DNA structure and interactions with base-pair resolution" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Scientific presentation aiming to share research outcomes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - CWP/IOM3/Royce "Materials for Net Zero |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview discussing the role of our research in achiving a circular economy and net zero |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://materialchange.iom3.org/series_partners/henry-royce-institute/ |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - First UK based High Entropy Materials Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop and discussion on high entropy materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - Interview with BBC Radio Sheffield Drivetime for Royce Discovery Centre Opening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Short interview about Royce Discovery Building opening and implications of our research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - KTN MRE2022 Twitter Video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short interview with KTN team while at Materials Research Exchange event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/KTN_Materials/status/1577321073531621376?s=20&t=H5aYo6G_2ycI4hyrndCWPQ |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - Lessons on structural alloy development strategies from experimentation with HEAs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Scientific talk highlighting research conducted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Dr Kathy Christofidou "Lessons on structure alloy development strategies from experimentation with High Entropy Alloys" - SMEA Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a scientific talk on high entropy alloys where the Royce melting facilities available to melt these alloys were mentioned with aim to bring more people in using the facilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/events/6891033638557802496/ |
| Description | Dr Simon Graham and Dr Oliver Levano Blanch presented at the 10th anniversary of FAST/SPS expert group in May 2022 in Germany. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Oliver Levano Blanch shared results on the influence of current induced thermal profiles in titanium during FAST/SPS processing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://dgm.de/en/article?tx_news_pi1=5826&cHash=37cace8e46367807d607c19688b47996 |
| Description | Drop-in session/surgery for prospective users of NNL Royce/user access equipment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Drop in virtual session with eth TPLs and owners of the user access equipment to facilitate further user access and ensure external users understand requirements when planning on equipment usage at NNL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ELECTRON MICROSCOPY DAY: PRESENTED BY THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BLUE SCIENTIFIC event2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attend this live, in-person event to hear from leading academic and industrial users of our Electron Microscopes and learn how they use these instruments across a wide variety of applications to get the best results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EMAG 2022 - Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EMAG 2022 was a biennial meeting of the EMAG group of the IOP held Imperial College London focusing on multidimensional electron microscopy research. The conference included academic talks from students and established researchers as well as a table-top trade exhibition for industry. A2D sponsored the early career section of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iop.eventsair.com/emag2022 |
| Description | EPSRC ENGINEERING NET ZERO WEEK 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The event will is an opportunity to: bring researchers, industry leaders and policy makers together to reflect on and raise awareness of the EPSRC investments made in this space continue the conversations that took place at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) highlight how our activities link to the sustainable development goals show our response to the outcomes of COP26 and how EPSRC-supported research and innovation can substantially contribute to net zero solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Early Career Researchers Forum on Horizon Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A workshop with Minister George Freeman, MP, to discuss the path forward for the UK's investment in blue-skies research. This was primarily to discuss what the alternative to Horizon Europe would be if the UK does not become an Associate Country. The ideas contributed from us were on what makes the UK research environment world class, and how this could best be supported and strengthened in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Enabling Next Generation Additive Manufacturing Seminar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This programme will focus on overcoming the challenges of spatially controlled co-deposition of dissimilar materials in 3D and we will establish new understanding and methods of both modelling and controlling co-deposition. 10/11/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Energy and Light: Cluster Tool Symposium (3rd Annual) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The third annual symposium for the Royce Ambient Pressure Cluster Tool. This one-day in-person event at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge showcased recent results from the growth, characterisation, testing and packaging of novel devices. The symposium also explored potential new ideas and research directions for the Cluster Tool. There were 53 attendees from both academia and industry with at least one new company aiming to start work on the tool in 2023 and others expressing support for the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute/cluster-tool-symposium-october-2022 |
| Description | European Mechanics of Materials Conference Oxford 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The conference aims to gather researchers who share a common interest in the field of mechanics of materials, yet working in a variety of application domains: material science, mechanical and civil engineering, but also biomechanics, geophysics etc. Contributions which provide a better understanding of complex phenomena associated with the mechanical response of materials at all scales, from atomistic to structural sizes, will be welcome. The scope of the conference will cover experimental, and analytical and computational modelling approaches, and contributions combining several approaches from different disciplines will be particularly encouraged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/european-mechanics-of-materials-conference/ |
| Description | FIRST UK WORKSHOP ON HIGH-ENTROPY MATERIALS 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The workshop will identify and establish a UK community on high-entropy materials, highlighting areas of challenge and opportunity, and will create a forum for sharing ideas, and enabling greater networking and formation of new partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Featured in a digital series in collaboration with The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) partnered with CWP to produce a digital series exploring expertise and advances throughout the materials cycle to address the climate crisis, achieve net zero targets and accelerate the circular economy. The Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub's Prof Shaver and Dr Chloe Loveless, Senior Experimental Office, demonstrated the research and development techniques used to support companies in the innovative design, reuse and recycling of plastics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/iom3/status/1583028751637499905 |
| Description | Future developments in metallurgical science and their implications for the metallurgical in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Large national conference and Expo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | GAMMA Manufacturing Innovation Network Event 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | GAMMA (Greater Manchester Graphene, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Alliance) would like to invite you to join a newly launched, inclusive, non-competitive network of peers that will provide you with commercialisation and innovation support tailored to your industry - without the need to spend lots of time out of the business |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/gamma-manufacturing-innovation-network-event/ |
| Description | GRIPS (Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) 2021 is a conference, exhibition and showcase. The three-day event, which is expected to bring together over 1,000 delegates from across all industries, will also feature 50 innovation and research-driven exhibitors on a virtual show floor. Confirmed exhibitors include the British Plastics Federation, Potter Clarkson LLP, Centre for Enzyme Innovation at the University of Portsmouth, Petit Pli, and Interface Polymers. Attendees will be able to learn about some of the world's best initiatives and developments, striving to make plastics less likely to reach landfills, end up incinerated, or become fugitive in the environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/grips/ |
| Description | HOTLAB 2022 58th Annual Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This meeting is intended for technicians, operators, engineers, researchers, suppliers and managers working at and for nuclear hot cell R&D facilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute stands at Materials Research Exchange (MRE) 2022 exhibition in London, October 2022. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The MRE2020 exhibition showcased UK materials research undertaken within academia and industry, with a large presence from the Henry Royce Institute, and an opportunity to forge links with businesses, other HEIs, research training organisations and media organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | High Entropy Materials workshop (Henry Royce Institute) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Royce Institute Hub Building hosted the First UK Workshop on High-Entropy Materials on Friday 9th September 2022. The workshop aimed to (i) identify and establish a UK community on high-entropy materials, (ii) create an inclusive forum for sharing ideas, (iii) enable greater networking and formation of new partnerships, especially between industry and academia, and (iv) highlight areas of challenge and opportunity in the field. The day comprised a mixture of short 10-minute talks from academics and industry, complemented by 2-minute 'elevator pitches' from early-career researchers (PDRAs and PhDs). Those submitting abstracts for 10-minute talks were asked to focus on one of three areas: (i) challenges, (ii) opportunities, or (iii) new ideas and methods of interest to the whole community. In total, over 40 people attended in-person, with a further 40 participating via Zoom (the hybrid format was very successful). x14 different UK universities were represented, alongside participants from x5 companies and representatives from STFC and a Catapult. There were also a few international participants online (although the principal focus was the UK community). Presentations covered a range of topics, including: high-throughput manufacture and screening of alloys, opportunities associated with functional high-entropy nanomaterials, and the challenges presented by sustainability considerations. Discussions were both lively and fruitful (regularly having to be cut short owing to time), and highlighted a number of opportunities for concerted action, including: better standardisation of data reported for new high-entropy materials (to allow for better comparisons), and the need for improved thermodynamic data. Further focussed discussions are already being planned between academics and industry, in anticipation of applying for UKRI funding. Prizes for the best elevator pitches were sponsored by two industry partners - Qinetiq and Metalysis Ltd. The workshop was organised by Ed Pickering (Manchester, AMP RAL), Kathy Christofidou (Sheffield, AMP TPL) and Nick Jones (Cambridge), with assistance from the Royce Hub team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | High Voltage Lab Open Day 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The HV Lab Open Day is the first in a series of events focused on accelerating industry and academic collaboration to address the electrification challenge with a multidisciplinary approach by matching science and engineering with social science, economics, politics and arts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE SHOWCASE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Ania Jolly giving a talk at event regarding Partnership Models & Engagement Opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT BEARING SYSTEMS (I2BS) FOR UHPE, WITH PROFESSOR LING WANG Webinar May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this free seminar, Prof. Wang will present The concept of the smart bearing systems The strategy and results from the subscale bearing tests The intelligence for bearing fault detection developed in this project using both advanced signal processing and machine learning methods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/integrated-intelligent-bearing-systems-i2bs-for-uhpe-with-professor-l... |
| Description | IOM3 Magic of Materials summer school Outreach activity 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Discover Materials were involved in the programme of activities delivered by IOM3 as part of a residential summer school for children learning about materials science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IOM3 Materials Challenge: Resourcing Net Zero Launch digital Series 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | London, UK (20 October 2022) - The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) has partnered with CWP to produce a digital series exploring expertise and advances throughout the materials cycle to address the climate crisis, achieve net zero targets and accelerate the circular economy. The Henry Royce Institute is a key contributor to the series, with case study highlights including the research underway at the Royce Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub and Royce at the University of Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams (PAGB) Annual Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams Group (PABG) invite you to the Particle Accelerators and Beams Annual Conference. This new two-day conference replaces the PABG one-day annual meeting, to become the UK's premier national event in the field of particle accelerators. Bringing together the entire community, this in-person event will comprise two days of vibrant physics discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/pabg-annual-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Imperial Lates: Tiny Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Imperial Lates is a themed outreach evening open to the general public where Imperial College London researchers can present and discuss their research. The theme of the November Lates was Tiny Science. Members of the NAME programme grant discussed the use of ion implantation in maser research through the use of a large scale "ion smash" game which demonstrated the principles and applications of the P-NAME ion implantation tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/152709/imperial-lates-tiny-science/ |
| Description | Industrial Training Programme promotion video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the Aerospace Engineering department and Rolls Royce created a video promoting the Industrial Training Programme. The ITP uses many of the Advanced Metal Processing equipment part of the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9gwoXq5TA |
| Description | Introduction to Advanced Materials Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship Online 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | At this event you will hear why and how Royce is looking to support wider commercialisation of advanced materials research, including: Presentations from a range of entrepreneurship and commercialisation programme providers - both academic and private sector First-hand experiences of such programmes from former researchers and founders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-advanced-materials-commercialisation-and-entrepreneur... |
| Description | Invited Speaker at World Plastics Summit 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the World Plastics Summit 2022, which assembled international research leaders in plastics recycling and redesign |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Speaker at the RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group Online Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver gave a talk at this online seminar which forms part of the RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group monthly online seminar series. This event's theme was 'Sustainability'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/47191/rsc-molecular-spectroscopy-group-online-seminar-series-janua... |
| Description | Invited Speaker in multiple slots at the Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability 2022 conference took place online and offered thought leadership and educational talks across a plethora of industry sectors that use plastics and polymers in the mainstream of their business. Prof Shaver was a panel speaker on Day 1: "Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Conference Designing Sustainable Plastic Packaging" and Day 2: "UKCPN Spotlight - Innovations that have the potential for disruptive impact on plastics sustainability" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited seminar at Gothenburg University (Sweden) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave an invited webinar on the NanoSIMS results acquired during this project to the Mass Spectrometry Imaging series organized by the Chemical Imaging Infrastructure and the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chemical-imaging-infrastructure_themassspectrometryimagingzoomseminar... |
| Description | Invited speaker at Dutch Polymer Institute conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the Dutch Polymer Institute conference on the topic of: "Multi-component material design to enable circularity" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at University of Twente, Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at University of Twente to discuss sustainable polymers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the "Circular Economy & Promoting Research Links" Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the "Circular Economy & Promoting Research Links" Conference 2022 hosted by KTN & Stockholm University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the Alliance Manchester Business School Social Responsibility Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at this event which invited staff and students from across the University of Manchester to a series of lectures and panel discussions on social responsibility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/all-news/legacy-news/alliance-manchester-business-... |
| Description | Invited speaker at the American Chemical Society, Chicago, USA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the American Chemical Society Conference during the Advances in Packaging Recycling and Sustainability session on the subject of Recycled plastic content determination through aggregation - induced emission |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences introducing a project to bring stakeholders of the plastics supply chain (including waste management) together to formulate ideas for a sustainable system with plastics. ("One Bin": Incentivizing Sustainable Plastic Systems.) Fellow speakers presented the culmination of their works in research and industry, while engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue to reach a deeper and broader understanding regarding potential solutions to environmental issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the RWM & Let's Recycle Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the RWM & Let's Recycle Conference, which featured a combined audience of over 7000 visitors, 200+ speakers across 9 conference theatres, 150+ CPD accredited sessions, 600+ exhibitors, live material processing, 50+ vehicle demonstrations and networking events including the Local Authority Lounge, Women in Sustainability, the Careers Corner, and the Innovation Awards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the Rethinking Materials Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the Rethinking Materials Summit which welcomed material producers, waste-disposal authorities, packaging producers, investors, start-ups and retailers from around the globe to exchange ideas, share experiences and forge new partnerships to turn the tide on plastic pollution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://rethinkingmaterials.com/summit-highlights/ |
| Description | Invited speaker at the University of Toronto - Sustainable Plastics vs Sustainable Systems Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at this seminar event which explored the complex nature of our plastic environment, the interdependency of plastics on our goals for lowering our carbon footprint and increasing our expected lifespan, while also showcasing the University's own work on how polymer chemistry has the opportunity to shape a new sustainable future by developing interdisciplinary solutions that work for all actors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the World Polymer Congress, Winnipeg, Canada. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the World Polymer Congress, 17-21 July in Winnipeg, Canada. The conference represented various themes in fields such as Polymers for Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers from Renewable Resources and Biodegradable Polymers. Prof Shaver spoke on the subject of Polymers for Energy and Environmental Applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.macro2022.org/invited-speakers/ |
| Description | Invited to give evidence at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to give evidence at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in its inquiry into plastic waste. The overall aim of this inquiry is to scrutinise the ways in which the UK government might reach its own target of eliminating all 'avoidable' plastic waste by 2042. The MPs will seek to understand how the UK might move closer in its use of plastic to a 'circular economy' where resources are used and then brought back into use, as opposed to the 'take, make and dispose' model which is currently consuming the earth's resources at an unsustainable rate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/52/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/news/1602... |
| Description | IoP Magnetism Winter School 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory lectures on magnetism aimed at researchers new to the field. I gave a lecture on thin film growth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iop.eventsair.com/mws2022/ |
| Description | Joint collaboration with NNUF and NSUF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Joint series of meeting between NNUF, NSUF (US based NNUF equivalent) on future collaborations and closer working on similar models for user access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Key note speaker at the Greater Manchester Green Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Shaver was a key-note speaker at the Greater Manchester Green summit, hosted by Mayor Andy Burnham. Attendees included businesses, policymakers, local communities and industry from the city-region to discuss its five-year environment plan, rising the key environmental challenges it faces from implementing new policies and future innovations to industry adaptation and individual lifestyle changes. The event also focused on engaging young people around climate change with a youth-specific event strand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Let's Move to the Moon - Case Delivery (Dixie Grammar School, Market Boswroth) School visit Outreach activity 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School visit - UKSA Space Box Delivery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SEMINAR 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The seminar will focus on the requirements and techniques used to characterise and qualify materials (and parts) for additive manufacturing - polymers, composites, and metals, followed by practical introductions from Netzsch and Malvern Panalytical to their key characterisation tools for additive manufacturing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MATERIALS 4.0 WEBINAR: DEVELOPING A MICROSTRUCTURAL FINGERPRINT FOR MINING PROCESS-MICROSTRUCTURE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of our commitment to Materials 4.0 we are running a series of webinars to showcase and demystify research towards Materials 4.0. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Materials Informatics: Accelerating Materials Innovation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop looking at the future of materials 4.0 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Materials in Manufacturing the Future - SUSTAIN Manufacturing Hub Seminar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | seminar series showcasing the research at Manufacturing the Future EPSRC funded projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Materials in Manufacturing the Future: AirGuide Photonics Seminar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Materials in Manufacturing the Future: AirGuide Photonics Seminar 08/12/22 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Metamaterials for NetZero |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Neil Alford gave a presentation on the possible use of metamaterials to achieve net zero. The four areas covered were Thermoelectrics Solar to radio frequency energy harvesting Structured catalysts for hydrogen Chargeless computing This was followed by a day of discussion of the topics followed by action planning to take projects forward |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Multi-modal characterisation of thin film optoelectronics for energy applications Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This mini-colloquium will focus on recent advances in the multi-modal characterisation of thin films for energy applications, seeking to reinforce connections between research communities developing advanced measurement capabilities and those applying them to develop new device technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System Lecture 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Henry Royce Institute 'multiscale digital twin-driven smart manufacturing system' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System Lecture 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | "Presentation from grant principal investigator Prof. Xichun Luo on current research within in the grant. " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NARIT - Thailand. Outreach event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rob Snell - Outreach with NARIT in Thailand to showcase latest project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NDTC Partner Forum Event 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The theme of the event is Sustainability and technical career development - a pathway to the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Neil Alford - Atoms to Devices and the Henry Royce Institute at "Design, synthesis and application of next-generation organic semiconductors" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International conference 16-17 Sept held at Imperial's White City Campus "Design, synthesis and application of next-generation organic semiconductors" This included a presentation of Royce and atoms to devices and a tour of the new Royce Facility at the Uren Hub in White City |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://allevents.in/london/design-synthesis-and-application-of-next-generation-organic-semiconducto... |
| Description | Neil Alford Presentation on Royce and on Quantum to NATO Deputy Permanent Representatives Committee 9 Dec 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation re Royce and on Materials for Quantum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/royce-facilities/ |
| Description | North East Advanced Material Electronics cluster group (NEAME) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with the NEAME Cluster over the summer to encourage use of the Cluster Tool facilities to solve industrial problems. The North East Advanced Material Electronics cluster group (NEAME) is made up of businesses developing new forms of semiconductor technologies which go beyond conventional, high-volume compound alternatives. Among the companies involved are: PragmatIC; Filtronic; and Evince. Contacts will be followed up on in the new year. NEAME is a dynamic cluster of leading-edge companies using advanced electronic materials technologies at the core of what they do. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Opening of Royce Discovery Centre - University of Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | OFFICIAL OPENING OF ROYCE DISCOVERY CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/official-opening-of-royce-discovery-centre-at-the-university-of-sheffie... |
| Description | Operando Approaches for Advanced Materials Development Simposium 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This one-day symposium will focus on the latest advances in the use of operando techniques to gain deeper understanding of the growth, processing, functionality and performance of novel energy and device materials. Organised by Prof Stephan Hofmann, University of Cambridge, Director of NanoDTC, and Prof Robert Weatherup, University of Oxford, Royce Research Area Lead for Electrochemical Systems, this event aims to build an interdisciplinary network of researchers working on operando and in-situ methods and related data analysis and computationally aided optimisation approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Organisation of the International Microscopy Conference EMAG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EMAG 2022 is the biennial focused meeting of the EMAG group of the IOP and will be held at Imperial College London. During this meeting, we will also be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the EM(A)G as an IOP group. This section of the event will be held at the Institute of Physics headquarters. The meeting will focus on multidimensional electron microscopy research. Distinguished invited speakers will present recent advances in multidimensional electron microscopy research, alongside contributed oral presentations, flash talks and poster sessions. EMAG conferences are valued in particular for providing a platform for students to present their work, alongside more established researchers, in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. A table-top trade exhibition will also be held for delegates to explore the latest advances in electron microscopy instrumentation and software. On the 7th of July, EMAG2022 meeting will be immediately followed up a 'town hall' style meeting jointly organized by EMAG, Royal Microscopy Society, SuperSTEM Facility at Daresbury and ePSIC Facility at Diamond. Immediately after hearing the current development in the UK in EMAG2022, the short 'town hall meeting is ideally position to kick start the consultation for a refresh of the UK EM roadmap for electron microscopy in the physical science (see details).' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iop.eventsair.com/emag2022 |
| Description | Otley Science Cafe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk about research from the Royce Deposition System to a general audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics/news/article/5833/philippa-s-smashing-talk-at-the-science-cafe |
| Description | Outreach ASE Conference (Sheffield Hallam) 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discover Materials delivered a stand at the ASE conference and engaged with teachers from across the UK on the school kits DM provides |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Outreach activity - School visit to UoB 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outreach activity - Wettability workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Outreach activity Cotteridge School Science Club (Spring 2) - Sessions 1 - 6 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outreach activity - Science Club - Miolecules, Microscopy and Materials; Crash Helmets for Eggs; Surfactants and foams; Bath Bombs; Atomic packing using Molymod bubbles and ping pong balls; Clip on microscopes and wettability; Tensile testing, Chocolate Impact testing, density bars |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Outreach/ exhibitions New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For three days in March 2022, New Scientist Live (NSL) transformed Manchester Central Convention Centre into a mind-blowing festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone passionate about science and why it matters.Together, Royce and Discover Materials delivered a huge outreach and public engagement presence at the event, creating a thrilling atmosphere and energy at their stand for visitors to learn about research and innovation in Materials Science.Royce and Discover Materials were supported at NSL by researchers, PhD students, technical staff and outreach staff from partners at Imperial College London, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, University of Birmingham, Loughborough University and Swansea University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/royce-new-scientist-live/ |
| Description | POLICY WORKSHOP: SELECT COMMITTEES & MATERIALS SCIENCE WITH DR LAURA COHEN 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This policy workshop will introduce academics and postgraduate researchers working across materials science disciplines to select committee engagement and the parliamentary process. The event complements the recent policy workshop held by the University of Manchester and will provide more detailed insight into the influencing process through select committees more generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2022 |
| Description | Presentation of Royce "model" at international nuclear users working group. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Three presentations around extent of Royce activity in the UK covering - facilities and equipment covered under user access at NNL (Central Lab WIndscale) and UKAEA, and a joint presentation on Royce "model" to an international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | QUANTUM INDUSTRY SHOWCASE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Royce academics attending The Quantum Industrial Showcase event is an opportunity for academics and businesses interested in Quantum technologies to discover our research activities and build connections in the area. The event will showcase the various ways businesses can engage with the University of Manchester and provide an opportunity to learn about our latest research in quantum science across a wide range of disciplines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Quantum materials: the challenge of the second quantum revolution Seminar 2022 PSI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PSI seminar on quantum computer technology with guest speaker Professor David Jamieson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | R&I Health Accelerator: Graphene In Medicine Workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This half-day accelerator brings together The University of Manchester's world-class graphene researchers, blue chip medical device manufacturers, SME biomedical innovators, and lead clinicians working at the coal face of medicine. Discuss, debate, and collaborate in a 'state of the nation' overview of the current and future application of graphene in biomedicine. Understand the impact graphene can have in the development of life-changing medical innovations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/ri-health-accelerator-graphene-in-medicine-workshop/ |
| Description | ROYCE @ THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER COMMUNITY FESTIVAL 2022 Outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce hosted outreach activities from NXCT, SMIHub, SAFER group, and NGI who delivered |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/university-of-manchester-community-festival/ |
| Description | ROYCE@CAMBRIDGE BIOSUITE EQUIPMENT LAUNCH 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This event marks the launch of the Royce 3D Bioelectronics Suite; a suite of equipment featuring a 2photon laser scanning microscope, along with equipment for cell growth and freeze drying. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royal Society of Chemistry Surface Coatings Interest Group Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | RSC Surface Coatings Group have organised a program of talks and tour to explore the facilities and research at the Royce Institute. The meeting will take place at the Royce Hub at Manchester University but will include contributions from other Royce facilities around the country. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royce Internships: How to Get a Job in Materials Science webinar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The webinar offered undergrad students a chance to learn more about PhD opportunities and future careers in materials science from a panel of current and recent PhD students and material scientist working in industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royce Internships: Virtual Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce-funded undergrad student interns were invited to share their research and experiences of from their summer projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SCIENCEX - Science Festival Outreach activity 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The outreach activity encouraged school children to think about the role of materials in achieving Net Zero including solar, wind and hydrogen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SMI Hub Workshop: It's not Easy Being Green - Sustainability, Plastics and Your Business 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Sustainable Materials Innovation (SMI) Hub's sustainability workshop: It's Not Easy Being Green, provides free impartial advice and expertise around plastics use and circularity, supporting your business to use plastics more sustainably and efficiently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SMI Hub Workshop: It's not Easy Being Green - Sustainability, Plastics and Your Business 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sustainability workshop for SMEs in the Greater Manchester area |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | SMI Hub: Good Cup, Bad Cup Seminar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub is a local innovation programme which helps businesses across Greater Manchester create sustainable solutions for plastics use and waste management. We offer free support to SMEs based in Greater Manchester, with less than 250 employees and less than €50m turnover. We're looking to bring together a group of local independent cafes to be part of a project to improve sustainability across your operations and supply chain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SMI Hub: Planet, Plastics, Pastries: Sustainability Coffee Morning 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | "Meet business owners and professionals interested in sustainability, and chat to industry experts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SURFACE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS FOR NET ZERO BY 2050 conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Surface engineering and manufacturing sector leaders from Government, industry and academia within the UK will come together to address the importance and contribution of the sector in achieving net-zero by 2050. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SURFEX: SURFACE PAINT & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Surfex brings an essential focus to surface, paint & coatings technologies and offers attendees to discover new ideas, find answers to technical challenges and source information for immediate use in their working environment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/surfex-surface-paint-coatings-technology/ |
| Description | Schools Climate Crisis Conference / Outreach activity 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | platform for members of the public, students and organisations from the region to convene and discuss local solutions to the pressing global issue of climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seminar at Warwick Manufacturing Group, uploaded to Youtube. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar talk on high-entropy alloys for nuclear applications, which was uploaded to Youtube on 21st November 2022. It has gained 2,241 views since then (as of 20th February 2023). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHk1g6aPlBc&t=11s&ab_channel=bhadeshia123 |
| Description | Southern Counties Materials, Minerals & Mining Society - Online Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A joint online event, chaired by Prof Serena Best, featuring two speakers from Cambridge presenting their research involving Royce equipment along with one further speaker from NPL. The event had 73 registrations from 7 different countries with a peak audience of 43 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Stabilizing organic transistors in water for bioelectronic applications (IoP) - Online 25th May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 25th May, Royce Cambridge in Partnership with the Institute of Physics (IOP) held a webinar on the subject of stabilizing organic transistors in water for bioelectronic applications. Organic bioelectronics is an emerging field - whereby organic materials seem ideal candidates for bioelectronics due to their softness, biocompatibility, stretchability, and their ability to conduct both electrons and ions. Dr Dimitrios Simatos outlined important research which used an additives-based approach to stabilize Organic Field E?ect Transistor (OFETs) immersed in Deionized (DI) water and saline solution, for periods up to a month, making the first high-performance water-stable OFETs reported in the literature. Dr Simatos received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, in 2022 and is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the University. His current research interests include wearables, implantable electronics, and the integration of organic and inorganic materials within the same device (hybrid systems). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/events/stabilizing-organic-transistors-water-bioelectronic-applications |
| Description | Student Research Sandpit 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PhD students worked in teams to tackle a "Materials Grand Challenge" in the area of metrology and electrochemical systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Student Summit: Materials for the Energy Transition 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The event offered a chance for PhD students from across the country to present, discuss their research, network and make connections with researchers in similar fields. Royce organised keynote talks from leading academics and a workshop activity on team building |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Surface Ventures WORKSHOP: MEASURING THE BEHAVIOUR OF BRAKE MATERIALS MORE EFFICIENTLY (WITH TRIBOLAB DEMO) 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, we will describe the technique and demonstrate how well it correlates with tests performed on the full-scale dynamometer following the SAE J2522 standard (known as AK Master). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | THE ENTREPRENEURIAL BRAIN Webinar 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, Emily Clements will debunk the myths about entrepreneurship and discuss what it really means to think like an entrepreneur. Based on the results from her research in the Neuroscience of Entrepreneurship and prior work with teams of scientists looking to become entrepreneurs, this talk will be a deep dive into how to develop the right mindset make the transition from researcher to entrepreneur. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical Skills - XPS Data Analysis webinar2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The course shared and collated best practice from tech platform leads across Royce on ion beam irradiation and characterisation experiments. It brought together the nuclear materials characterisation leaders within Royce, and put them in contact with a userbase. This will impact the efficient design of experiments and access requests in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical Skills Introduction to Python Workshop 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop aimed to introduce PhD students to Python programming for their materials research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical Skills Royce Training with CISM Swansea: Cleanroom practical skills -2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The course developed knowledge and practical skills in using cleanroom facilities as part of the manufacture of compound semiconductors. This is the first of a planned yearly run of the course, rotating through Royce partners and CISM Swansea |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical skills Introduction to XPS (webinar) 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The webinar was delivered to raise awareness of Royce kit, share information on capabilities, and better prepare the audience for conducting XPS experiments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical skills Python for Data Analysis and Visualisation workshop 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop aimed to develop the Python skills of PhD students for data analysis and visualisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical skills ROYCE TRAINING: ION BEAM IRRADIATION AND CHARACTERISATION - BEST PRACTICE 23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The course shared and collated best practice from tech platform leads across Royce on ion beam irradiation and characterisation experiments. It brought together the nuclear materials characterisation leaders within Royce, and put them in contact with a userbase. This will impact the efficient design of experiments and access requests in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical skills ROYCE TRAINING: SOFT SKILLS FOR RESEARCHERS 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PhD students presented their research on "Materials for the Energy Transition" and worked collboratively on an activity around "Hyrdogen for Transport" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Terahertz Microscopy meeting (Manchester, 4th-5th April 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting of UK researchers involved in THz imaging and spectroscopy was held in Royce Institute on 4th-5th April in Manchester. This event was held as a hybrid meeting and was attended by over 45 people. We were pleased to attract 33 in-person attendees and 15 virtual attendees. The event was attended by a good number of ECRs ( including 9 PhDs, postdocs and research fellows), in addition to senior members of the UK community, some international attendees (McMaster, MIT) and industry representation (e.g. Samsung, Malvern Pananalytical). This follows on from previous meetings (pre-COVID) and is having a positive impact on drawing this community together. In particular, the network meeting hosted a live demonstration of the cyroSNOM and room-temperature SNOM systems within the CUSTOM facility by Dr Lars Mester from neaspec gmbh. The meeting included researchers from Warwick and Sheffield who were just about to acquire microscopes, who found this demonstration and the event as a whole especially useful for learning techniques from experts in the field. Attendees are drawing up agreed follow-up actions, with the transfer of samples and access requests to Royce Facilities in progress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In June 2022, Royce has supported the Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum, which brought together researchers from universities, industry and research funding bodies to hear about the latest developments in Materials Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Big Bang Fair | NEC, Birmingham 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Big Bang Fair is back for 2022! We're so excited for you to join us at the UK's biggest celebration of STEM for young people.The Big Bang Fair 2022 will be packed full of exciting, interactive activities and has been designed specifically for 11 to 14 year olds in mind, to provide the best careers inspiration, advice and opportunities to meet with real scientists and engineers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Bragg Exchange |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Bragg Exchange is an annual research symposium run and hosted by the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, aimed at the whole of the materials research community in the UK. At the Exchange we host a wide-range of talks by academics from UK and Europe, as well as from the University of Leeds. In 2022 we hosted 110 in-person attendees, with 5 external talks, 5 UoL talks, and 25 PGR posters. The Exchange was also broadcast on YouTube and reached over 200 people from around the world. In 2023 we hosted 150 in-person attendees, with 5 external talks. 5 UoL talks and 70 PGR posters. The Exchange was broadcast on YouTube |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Power of Materials Modelling for Industrial Applications workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop is organized to share knowledge and awareness of the materials modelling endeavours supported by CCP5 that are of benefit to UK PLC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Training course - ROYCE TRAINING: 3D BIOPRINTING FOR HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The course was delivered to share knowledge and understanding of Royce 3D bioprinting capabilities, develop basic technical awareness with 3D printers, and foster connections in the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UHV Photoemission UPS/XPS & Environmental XPS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A two-day online and in-person workshop on the instrumentation, theory and practice of XPS, along with a session on data analysis and an opportunity to speak to XPS facility staff. This event was held in conjunction with XPS facilities in Leeds, Manchester, Oxford and Imperial. 2022 edition: 18th-20th January 2022 2023 edition: 24th-25th January 2023 This workshop introduced data analysis methods for the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and the support available from staff at XPS facilities across the Henry Royce Institute. The content provided basic instruction in key data analysis methods for a beginner, then covered more advanced procedures for analysing data. Approaches to manage data processing will be addressed in the context of analysing real XP spectra. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-introduction-to-xps-at-royce/ |
| Description | UK Society for Biomaterials Conference, University of Sheffield 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UK Society for Biomaterials Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UK Surface Analysis Forum (UKSAF) Summer Network Meeting 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The annual summer meeting gathered the scientific and industrial surface analysis community from across the country to discuss the latest research and developments in the techniques and applications of surface analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Uncovering Fundamental Mechanisms to Enable Sustainable Steel Manufacturing presentation 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Presentation by principal investigator of the grants Dr Zushu Li on current research within the grants.'' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | University of Manchester PGR Careers Event with Dr Laura Cohen May 22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Laura Cohen MBE CEng FIMMM will deliver a talk to provide Postgraduate Researchers with information on careers in materials science and provide insight into the industry's current challenges. Dr Cohen will also answer careers questions from event attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/university-of-manchester-pgr-careers-event/ |
| Description | Virtual FIB & Prep Workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The UK FIB?ep User Group is organized to provide an open forum for FIB users and all users of specimen preparation equipment for microscopes to share advances in the technique, discuss best practices, present experimental and theoretical findings/discoveries, exchange tips for preparation of difficult materials, 2D and 3D analysis of challenging data sets and learn about new developments in both instrumentation and techniques, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Visit by Mayor of Greater Manchester to Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub Feb 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham visited the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub at the Henry Royce Institute in February 2023 where he met with researchers to hear about the pioneering work they do with businesses in helping them to find more sustainable ways to use plastics. Researchers also showcased projects on quantifying recycled content in plastics, recyclable credit card & composites sustainable waste management, and chatted about the barriers to a more sustainable future for plastic waste |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WEBINAR: MXENES, A MODEL MATERIAL FOR SOLID LUBRICANTS Online 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this free webinar, Dr. Grützmacher will: Introduce MXenes, their synthesis, and properties. Review their tribological performance. Discuss opportunities and challenges for the MXenes as solid lubricants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/webinar-mxenes-a-model-material-for-solid-lubricants/ |
| Description | Women In Nuclear Seminar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The partnership will comprise a series of seminars where senior figures in the industry will talk about their backgrounds and distill their experience into practical advice about where to look for jobs and the types of roles that are available. While the talks will be of value to anyone interested in pursuing a career in the industry, the content will have a focus on the experiences and opportunities for women as it is very important that the nuclear industry attracts and retains more female professionals over the coming decade. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/women-in-nuclear/ |
| Description | Women in STEM Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To help early career researchers and female scientists to choose what they would like to do in their future career Share experiences from a woman's perspective Generate a network of female scientists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop: Application of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | his workshop will help form an industry-wide response about the benefits of developing AI technologies to reduce costs and construction time of nuclear technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | World PM 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Simon Graham delivered a keynote at WorldPM 2022 Conference titled "Solid-State Processing of Surplus Aluminum Alloy Powders through a Combination of Field Assisted Sintering Technology and Hot Rolling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.worldpm2022.com/keynote-papers/ |