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
Acharya, R.
(2023)
Article
in Highly 28Si Enriched Silicon by Localised Focused Ion Beam Implantation
Adassooriya NM
(2023)
Dielectric behaviour of plasma hydrogenated TiO2/cyanoethylated cellulose nanocomposites.
in Nanoscale
Adshead M
(2023)
A High-Resolution Versatile Focused Ion Implantation Platform for Nanoscale Engineering
in Advanced Engineering Materials
Ahamed A
(2024)
Technical and environmental assessment of end-of-life scenarios for plastic packaging with electronic tags
in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Aitchison CM
(2023)
Templated 2D Polymer Heterojunctions for Improved Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production.
in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Al Nasser HA
(2023)
Electrochemical assessment of a tripodal thiourea-based anion receptor at the liquid|liquid interface.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Al-Abri R
(2023)
Sub-Picosecond Carrier Dynamics Explored using Automated High-Throughput Studies of Doping Inhomogeneity within a Bayesian Framework.
in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Alakiozidis I
(2024)
Quantifying cracking and strain localisation in a cold spray chromium coating on a zirconium alloy substrate under tensile loading at room temperature
in Journal of Nuclear Materials
| 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 | 06/2021 |
| 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 | 03/2023 |
| End | 10/2026 |
| 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 | 01/2025 |
| 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 | 08/2022 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | A Smart Automated TEM Facility for Large Scale Analysis of Atomic Structure and Chemistry |
| Amount | £5,857,335 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X041204/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| 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 | 05/2022 |
| 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 | 03/2023 |
| End | 11/2028 |
| 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 | 07/2022 |
| 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 | 06/2022 |
| 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 | 08/2022 |
| 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 | 08/2022 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Combining Advanced Materials for Interface Engineering (CAMIE) |
| Amount | £6,553,083 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X027074/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2023 |
| End | 05/2028 |
| Description | Defence Materials Centre of Excellence (DMEx) : Materials in Extreme Environments |
| Amount | £42,322,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| End | 11/2028 |
| 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 | Digital Discovery Platform for Organic Electronics Materials (DiaDEM) |
| Amount | € 2,153,808 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Innovation Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 04/2025 |
| 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 | 07/2022 |
| 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 | 09/2022 |
| 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 | £19,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | EconoMISER |
| Amount | £1,330,652 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| 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 | GM Innovation Accelerator - Advanced Materials Innovation Cluster application |
| Amount | £5,532,903 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10055871 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Graphene tape and spray solutions for mitigating SF6 leakage in transmission and distribution equipment |
| Amount | £365,216 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Grid UK |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2025 |
| 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 | 03/2022 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | HNB decommissioning |
| Amount | £227,317 (GBP) |
| Organisation | EDF Energy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| 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 | 03/2022 |
| 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 | 09/2020 |
| 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 | 04/2022 |
| 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 | 09/2021 |
| 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 | 08/2022 |
| 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 | 07/2022 |
| 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 | 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 | Industrial Collaboration Project (ICP) round 1 |
| Organisation | Industry Partners |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Industrial Collaboration Programme round 1 (ICP1) funded projects aligned to one or more of Royce's core research areas: • Atoms to Devices • 2-Dimensional Materials • Advanced Metals Processing • Nuclear Materials • Materials for Demanding Environments • Chemical Materials Design • Electrochemical Systems • Biomedical Materials It matched companies that had research, development, and innovation (RD&I) projects with UK experts in materials science and cutting-edge facilities in a truly collaborative endeavour. Awards were intended to provide access to both state-of-the-art Royce facilities, located nationwide, and to world leading UK scientific expertise to address barriers to advanced materials development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Applications for the Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) must be submitted via a Royce Partner and include the use of Royce Partner capability. Awards were between £75k to £100k per project (from Royce) and will cover up to 80% of the full economic cost for HEIs and up to 100% for businesses with an expected duration of 3 - 6 months. |
| Impact | • Number of projects awarded: 5 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £263,422 • The number of HEIs engaged: 4 • The number of industry partners engaged: 5 • The number of RTOs engaged:0 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Industrial Collaboration Project (ICP) round 2 and Materials Challenge Accelerator Programme (MCAP) |
| Organisation | Industry Partners |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Industrial Collaboration Programme round 2 (ICP2) aimed to match businesses of all sizes and research organisations that have research, development and innovation (RD&I) activities with Royce capabilities, and the programme will see projects ranging from development of advances in materials for the hydrogen economy, advanced nuclear reactors and the foundation industries through to tracking recycled content in plastics, establishing Artificial Intelligence in Additive Manufacturing and 2D materials for pharmaceuticals. The Materials Challenge Accelerator (MCAP) funding focussed on support for higher education institutions, research technology organisations, and SMEs in the UK, and was aimed at accelerating priority areas for innovation identified in the Royce National Materials Challenge roadmaps and landscape documents. Projects here range from corrosion control for Offshore Wind Turbines, developments in advanced metals and materials for nuclear fusion through to next-generation photovoltaics, circularising ceramics processing and 3D printing materials development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Applications for the Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) was required to be submitted via a Royce Partner and include the use of Royce Partner capability. Awards were up to £250,000 for ICP2 and up to £100,000 for MCAP per project. Royce funded 80% of the full economic cost and 100% for any Royce facilities included, with an expected duration of 3 - 6 months. |
| Impact | ICP2022 • Number of projects awarded: 25 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £3,054,559.30 • The number of HEIs engaged: 7 • The number of industry partners engaged:22 • The number of RTOs engaged: 3 MCAP 2022 • Number of projects awarded: 37 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £2,620,009.36 • The number of HEIs engaged: 22 • The number of industry partners engaged: 17 • The number of RTOs engaged: 5 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Industrial Collaboration Project (ICP) round 3 |
| Organisation | Industry Partners |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Industrial Collaboration Programme round 3 aimed to match companies that have research, development, and innovation (RD&I) projects with UK experts in materials science and cutting-edge facilities to accelerate the transfer of new technologies. UK based higher education institutions and universities, research and technology organisations, charity or not-for-profit organisations and businesses of any size will all be eligible for funding awards as project leads or collaborators. Royce is especially looking to support projects which focus on developing new products, processes or services that represent a step change over those currently available or propose an innovative use of existing products or processes. Each project, for which an award between £75,000 and £125,000 is available, will be funded for a 5-month project. Successful applications will be able to leverage Royce's national capability to support their RD&I activity, including access to dedicated applications scientists and world leading research facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The grants were awarded under the Subsidy Control Act 2022 under Research, development, and Innovation Streamlined Subsidy Scheme. This determined funding by the type of recipient (University, RTO, or business). For companies, the grant aid intensity was affected by the company's size (Small, Medium, or Large), and the project's research, development, and innovation classification (feasibility study, industrial research, or experimental development), see below table. All Royce facilities costs are funded at 100%. Academic organisations and research and technology organisations undertaking non-economic activity obtained the following funding: - Up to 80% of full economic costs (FEC) for UK Je-S registered institutions, or - 100% of project costs for RTO, charity and not-for-profit organisations Feasibility study Industrial research Experimental development Small Enterprise 70% 70% 45% Medium Enterprise 60% 60% 35% Large enterprise 25% 25% 25% Fundamental research projects were ineligible for funding. |
| Impact | • Number of projects awarded: 49 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £4,361,562.78 (This may end up being lower when the claims come in at the end of March and April) • The number of HEIs engaged: 24 • The number of industry partners engaged: 41 SMEs and 15 Large Enterprises • The number of RTOs engaged: 7 |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| 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 | 1-day Royce Student Summit event held at the Bragg Centre in Leeds around the Royce Atoms to Devices theme.: Electronic and Photonic Materials - Student Engagement |
| 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 | 1-day event held at the Bragg Centre in Leeds around the Royce Atoms to Devices theme. This summit brought together students from across the UK and provided early career researchers the chance to share their work around the theme, network with peers and learn more about Electronic and Photonics Materials from leading experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 1-hour 'Stand Out Skills' webinar that featured a display of the topic, along with a Q&A: 3D Scientific Data Visualisation Using Blender - Student Engagement |
| 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 | 1-hour 'Stand Out Skills' webinar that featured a display of the topic, along with a Q&A. In this talk, Dr. Brian Kent (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) talked through how to use Blender to start workflow toward data visualization and rendering in 3D. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 1-hour 'Stand Out Skills' webinar: Writing Academic CVs - What You Need to Know - Royce Student Engagement |
| 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 | 1-hour webinar that featured a display of the topic, along with a Q&A. In the third episode of the Stand Out Skills Webinar Series, Jess Popplewell, Careers Consultant at Imperial College London, talked through the process of composing an academic CV and how to make sure it stands out from the crowd. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | 7th Postgraduate Research Symposium on Ferrous Metallurgy 27 February 2024 |
| 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 | A research symposium organised by the Materials Processing Institute and supported by the Armourers & Brasiers' Company and the IOM3 Iron & Steel Group. This one-day conference is for students, academics, researchers and industry involved in materials, metals and process improvement. The symposium gives universities, researchers and businesses the opportunity to find out about the latest thinking on ferrous metallurgy. At the symposium PhD and EngD students will showcase their research with particular emphasis on the ferrous sector. Along with this will be keynote presentations from industry leaders, and an exhibition and poster display. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.iom3.org/events-awards/ems-event-calendar/7th-postgraduate-research-symposium-on-ferrous... |
| Description | A Deep Dive into Nanoindentation: Interpreting Tip Wear Using Explainable Machine Learning - Materials 4.0 research hybrid Seminar (and webinar) on employing deep learning in interpreting nanoindenter tip wear |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar on data intensive research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | A talk at - TFIN+ Christmas Conferences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This in-person conference will bring together the Foundation Industries community to discuss the latest innovations and developments. There will be many chances to network throughout the event, as well as poster sessions, Q+A and a conference dinner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/tfin-christmas-conference-sheffield/ |
| Description | A2D Student Event | Rae @ Royce Hub Building |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A2D Student Event at the Royce Hub Building facilitated by Rae Helm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AI Hub for Chemistry AiChemy Open Discussion | Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The University of Liverpool and Imperial College London, in collaboration with the University of Southampton and University of Cambridge, are developing a bid for an EPSRC AI hub for Digital Chemistry - our bid is entitled Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Chemistry: AIchemy. AIchemy held an online open meeting to discuss the outline of the hub, how it might develop an inclusive AI-using community and shape the hub's aims |
| 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 | ASE Scotland Teachers Conference - Discover Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivering a talk about MSE to school teachers and delivering hands on activities from the Discover Materials busking box at Kinross High School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ASE Teachers Conference 2024 (Discover Materials) | University of Northampton |
| 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 three day teachers conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Accelerating Just Climate Action Conference - 12 December 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 | To save a few airmiles and prevent feelings of flightshame related to COP28 being hosted in UAE this year, Sustainable Futures with support from Tyndall Manchester, Henry Royce Institute and Creative Manchester is hosting an all-day event showcasing the work of Early Career Researchers that intersect with topics that will be inevitably discussed during the intergovernmental negotiations. The aim is to foster debate, collaboration and interdisciplinary thinking to help develop new, or grow existing relationships across the University's diverse group of Early Career Researchers studying the many facets of sustainability. This is all in the spirit of helping to accelerate climate action. Three speakers per session will present their research followed by a Q&A panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/accelerating-just-climate-action-conference/ |
| 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 | Advanced Metallic Systems PGR Conference 18-19 July 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 Postgraduate Research Conference in Metallic Materials aims to give postgraduate researchers the opportunity to hone their talents at presenting to national and international audiences in a warm and welcoming environment. Delegates are asked to present a talk or poster depending on their experience and length of time within in their research programme. It's the chance to develop those all-important skills in communicating your work, as well as a great time to network with peers, colleagues, and external keynote speakers with the metallics industry. This year the conference is hosted at The Edge at the University of Sheffield, with a conference dinner at The Mowbray at Kelham Island, the heart of Sheffield's industrial heritage. Travel and accommodation is arranged and funded for AMS CDT researchers and invited speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/advanced-metallic-systems-pgr-conference/ |
| Description | Advanced segmentation techniques in Avizo - NXCT (Software training on Avizo for particle analysis) |
| 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 | A Royce supported Software training on Avizo for particle analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Advanced segmentation techniques in Avizo - NXCT software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
| 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 | Software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Analysing your XPS data 2 -Technical Skills Hands on data surgery for XPS data |
| 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 | Data analysis training course delivered by the XPS Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their XPS data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Applied Diffraction Refinement - Royce Technical Skills Training on Xray diffraction methods |
| 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 | Introduction to techniques and methods used to prepare and analyse experimental data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Applied Diffraction Refinement - Technical Skills Training on Xray diffraction methods |
| 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 | Technical Skills Training on the Introduction to techniques and methods used to prepare and analyse experimental data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Applied Diffraction Refinement Course | Royce Sheffield |
| 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 | This course, led by Dr Lewis Owen, will explore powder diffraction refinements techniques and their application. It is suitable for researchers working in both academia and industry that want to learn how to carry out powder diffraction refinement. Thanks to funding from the Henry Royce Institute the course is offered at a heavily subsidised rate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/applied-diffraction-refinement-course/ |
| Description | Armorers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum 2023 |University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Forum is hosted by the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, UK, under the auspices of the Armourers & Brasiers' Livery Company, and is generously supported by leading organisations including Royce. |
| 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 | BLAST Home-schoolers Social - Discover Materials meet up of home-schoolers (both parents and children) |
| 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 | Meet up of home schoolers (both parents and children) from the black community in Walsall Arboretum with the children aged 4-16 including some who participated in the 'Let's Move to the Moon Project' who were awarded certificates. We ran a wettability activity and distributed CoCoElectro Bags (a RSC funded project). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Big Bang Science Festival - Discover Materials |
| 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 | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A range of activities including chocolate impact testing, Discover Materials busking box, an activity devised as part of a Discover materials Engagement Grant, contribution from the Faraday Institute, microscopes from Zeiss |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Bluedot Festival - Marvellous Materials - Royce Science Festival Outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce coordinated a large research/outreach stand in collaboration with 5 Royce partners and research grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | British Science Festival (Discover Materials) | Exeter |
| 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 | From creating melt in your mouth chocolate, to developing efficient energy solutions, the world of material science is essential to many of our everyday experiences and enjoyment of the world. Understanding how these materials work, and what they can be used for is vital to creating a greener, more sustainable future and Chris Hamlett from Discover Materials wants you to be as fascinated by it as he is! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://discovermaterials.co.uk/event/british-science-festival/ |
| 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 | Bruker Workshop: Electrical Characterisation Modes of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) - Technical Skills training workshop on Bruker AFM |
| 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 | A workshop that had PhD students, PDRAs and Research scientists in attendance to learn about AFM facility and research in the area, with a tour of Royce facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CAMBRIDGE BIOELECTRONICS SYMPOSIUM 15-16June 2023 |
| 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 CAMBRIDGE BIOELECTRONICS SYMPOSIUM COMBINES COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART OF THE FIELD WITH STRONG PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS (GRADUATE STUDENTS/POSTDOCS), HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS, AND CAREER FURTHERING OPPORTUNITIES. IT OFFERS: Coverage of fundamentals, materials, devices, applications, translation/commercialisation, ethical issues. Invited talks by world-class experts who convey their vision for the future of the field. ~70% of contributed talks and posters presented by young scientists, selected by a committee of young scientists. Hands-on demonstrations: Interested in bioelectronics but do not know where to start? These demonstrations will give you some good ideas. Thematic panel discussion or road mapping exercise - more on this soon. "Meet the industry" session. Learn about startups in the field. Awards for best contributed talk and poster, selected by a committee of young scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-landscaping-and-roadmapping-in-materials-for-bioelectronic-medi... |
| Description | Cambridge Bioelectronics Symposium |
| 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 2023 inaugural edition was a big sucess: It featured an exciting two day program, and was capped to 100 attendees. 85% of the responders to the post-event survey ranked the Symposium as 5/5. Following their recommendations, we are expanding the 2024 edition to three days and a maximum of 250 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://bioelectronics.eng.cam.ac.uk/symposium-information |
| 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 | Chelteham Science Festival - Careers Panel Session - Discover Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A careers panel session held at the Cheltenham Town Hall during the Cheltenham Science Festival in Birmingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Chelteham Science Festival - workshop - Discover Materials (Workshop to introduce Year 10 students to Materials Science and Engineering) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A workshop introducing MSE by looking through swansea universitie's SEM, using chcocolate impact tester, tensile tester, investigating wettabiltiy using the lotus leaf and investigating some smart materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Circular Materials for Sustainable Digital Futures Workshop | University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Henry Royce Institute at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with EPSRC held a one-day meeting on Thursday 4th May 2023 to bring together materials researchers who are working in, or passionate about, moving towards an environmentally sustainable digital future. This meeting aimed to engage researchers, RTOs, policy makers and those working in industry within the advanced materials community in an active discussion about a materials focus for a sustainable digital future. There were about 50 attendees at the meeting, with a diverse range of expertise and experience in materials research and innovation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | CoCoMAD |
| 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 | A one day local festival in Cotteridge Park. Chris Hamlett organised the Science Field and DM Ambassadors help run the Discover Materials stand on which we had bath bomb making, a separating materials activity (separating plastic and metal bottle tops and glass marbles using water, a sieve and a magnet). We also distributed the CoCoElectro Bags (a Royal Society of Chemistry) funded project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Computational Design of High Entropy Alloys - Materials 4.0 |
| 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 | Hybrid Seminar: Invited researchers from Kathy Christofidou and Lewis Owens' research group to present their work in applying machine learning for rapid discovery of high entropy alloys |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Corrosion @ Manchester 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 | The 2-day meeting reflects both the history of the subject and celebrates the opening of the new corrosion labs. The first day will look backwards to the history, and forwards to the future, of the subject, explore the importance of industry collaboration and partnerships, and hear from some of our graduates and partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | DALTON CUMBRIAN FACILITY OPEN EVENT - 14 November 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Dalton Cumbrian Facility (DCF) is a state-of-art complex for The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute, where academia and industry carry out world-leading research and deliver dedicated skills development programmes. Research focuses on radiation, nuclear engineering decommissioning and management of radioactive waste. Facilities include the ion-beam accelerator hall, which contains extensive irradiation equipment, and an adjoining building containing analytical/inspection laboratories, office accommodation, meeting/seminar rooms and a computer modelling capability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/dalton-cumbrian-facility-open-event/ |
| 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 | DISCOVER THE FUTURE IN MATERIALS-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES: PERFORMANCE ON DEMAND Online Workshop 19 October 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 | Engaging presentations: Explore a future scenario of how jobs, work processes and structures can be designed to support your organisation and supply chain in the context of Performance on Demand Interactive session: Exchange best practices and experiences among participants Contribute your insights to help advance research and shape the future of this transformative business and technological change in materials-intensive industries This workshop provides access to new opportunities and innovative ways of working. The insights gathered will be used to create a valuable online resource for organisations and shared with you on completion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/discover-the-future-in-materials-intensive-industries-performance-on-... |
| 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 | Decarb Connect Conference | Lowry Hotel, Manchester 28-29 February 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 | In the midst of evolving government communications on achieving net-zero emissions, industrials across the UK are showcasing their unwavering commitment and leadership. Engage with the experts actively shaping industrial decarbonisation clusters, crafting comprehensive CO2 management business plans, spearheading plant-based initiatives and devising innovative funding mechanisms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/decarb-connect-uk/ |
| Description | Digital Skills Workshop for Researchers on Software Carpentry - Materials 4.0 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Materials Researchers were introduced to digital tools for facilitating data curation and analysis in research, how to use bash within a terminal, git and github and Python |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 - Science Club Autumn 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A five sessions series of after school club sessions for 7-8 year olds to introduce the to material science. They measured the toughness of chocolate (using the chocolate impact tester), measured how good different materials are at blocking UV light (using UV colour changing beads), investigated the quickest way to separate materials using a magnet, water and sieve. they also made artwork out of rubbish and also made bath bomba and light up Christmas cards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - ASE Conference - A three day teachers conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A teachers conference at which we showcased the chocolate impact tester, activites from our busking box and had information for teachers regarding our activites such as the 'Let's Move to the Moon' box |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Alston Primary School (Year 3) - 3 x 1hr classes for 7-8 year olds at a primary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 3 x 1hr sessions with 7-8 year olds to introduce them to materials properties and how these help to influence the material used in a safety helmet. This helping to develop our offerings to primary schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Alston Primary School (Year 5) - 3 x 1hr classes for 9-10 year olds at a primary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 3 x 1hr sessions with 9-10 year olds to introduce them to how to make bath bombs. This is helping to develop our offerings to primary schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Alston Primary School Science Club |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An after school science club in which the pupils made light up Christmas cards using copper tape and an LED |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Black STEAM 10 - A half day session at the Black STEAM 10 event in ThinkTank, Birmingham |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A stand at the Black STEAM 10 event (run by BLAST Fest) at which we deomsntarted the chocolate impact tester and distributed bags from the CoCoElectro Bag project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://discovermaterials.co.uk/resource/cocoelectro-bag/ |
| Description | Discover Materials - DMIM Focus Group 1 (King Edwards VI High School for Girls) - A focus group in a secondary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A focus group with a group of year 7 pupils (11-12 year olds) to find out their favourite materials, their awareness of industries involved with materials science, especially locally, and their awareness of sustainability and opinions on a video that we had produced as part of the In2Science project. The findings will help us develop an activity and video that will be showcased at the Think Tank museum and is a pilot project that will form the basis of a funding bid to the Royal Academy of Engineering's 'Ingenious Awards'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - DMIM Focus Group 1 (Turves Green Boys School) - A focus group in a secondary school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A focus group with a group of year 7 pupils (11-12 year olds) to find out their favourite materials, their awareness of industries involved with materials science, especially locally, and their awareness of sustainability and opinions on a video that we had produced as part of the In2Science project. The findings will help us develop an activity and video that will be showcased at the Think Tank museum and is a pilot project that will form the basis of a funding bid to the Royal Academy of Engineering's 'Ingenious Awards'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Discover Materials this Winter - A live, online event aimed at 11-14 year olds |
| 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 series of materials science talks about materials in space, hcosing the right material, the packing of baubles and the mechanical properties of chocolate. There was also a panel discussion about sustainability and careers in Materials Science and Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyl3ubsSP6pWytptgWUnbjSCWZULax-AC&si=m20t8Z3B9i5iOFtP |
| Description | Discover Materials - Exploring STEM |
| 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 | Using the Discover Materials Busking box to demonstrate smart materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Exploring STEM (A 2 hour drop in session at the Exploring STEM event at the University of Sheffield) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Exhibit aimed at girls and LGBTQ+ pupils in KS4-5 to learn more about the engineering courses on offer at the University of Sheffield. We too along the DM Busking box (a box full of demonstrations about materials science) and it roved very popular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Faraday Institute Outreach Event |
| 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 | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A 2 hour outreach session as part of an event for local school teachers and sixth form students as part of the Faraday Institution Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Festival of Tomorrow - A two day public event as part of the Festival of Tomorrow Science Festival in Swindon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A drop in science festival for families and general public to raise the profile of Materials Science. We ran the chocolate impact tester, activities from the busking box such as ferrofluids, shape memory alloys, superhydorphobic leaves and UV colour changing beads and also found out the audience's favourite materials using post it notes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Manchester Science and Industry Museum - A two day public event at Manchester Science and Industry Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A drop in science festival for families and general public to raise the profile of Materials Science. We ran the chocolate impact tester, activities from the busking box such as ferrofluids, shape memory alloys, superhydorphobic leaves and UV colour changing beads and also found out the audience's favourite materials using post it notes. We also had a Materials Scavenger hunt for the children to take and try to identify a range of materials around the museum - this proved very popular |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Stroud Museum in the Park - A day long session for the public at the Museum in the Park, Stroud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We ran a drop in session over the half term that showcased smart materials (such as shape memory alloys) and measured the toughness of different chocolate bars using the chocolate impact tester to work out which chocolate bar could be used to make a crash helmet |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - UKSA Space Box Collection (Avanti Fields, Leicester) - A collection session for the 'Let's Move to the Moon' project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A school visit to collect the 'Let's Move to the Moon'box, to help the pupils make posters to showcase what they learned during the project and to (attempt) to launch a 3D printed rocket |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - UKSA Space Box Delivery (Avanti Fields, Leicester) - A delivery session for the 'Let's Move to the Moon' project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A short introduction to Materials Science and Engineering and then introducing the 'Let's Move to the Moon' project before helpin the students wiht Mission 0 (opening the box) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - UKSA Space Box Delivery (The Kings Academy, Middlesbrough) - A delivery session for the 'Let's Move to the Moon' project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A short introduction to Materials Science and Engineering and then introducing the 'Let's Move to the Moon' project before helpin the students wiht Mission 0 (opening the box) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Visit to Priors Field Primary School (A half day visits to a primary school class) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An introduction to materials science session for 5-6 year olds in which we looked at materials properties using the chocolate impact tester, tensile tester, thermal imaging camera, clip on microscope lenses and looked at wettability using lotus leaves |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials - What are Things Made Of (WATMO)? Project - A project (in collaboration with the charity '4wardFutures') for 9-10 year olds in which they explore how materials behave, what things around them are made of and then work in small groups on a project investigating how materials can be used in more sustainable ways to address a global issue of their choice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A project which introduces 9-10 year olds to thinking about what things are made of and getting them to consider the sustainability of the producst. They then work on their own projects to investigate a consumer product(s) of their choice and showcase the sustainability of the product(s). The project involved school visit to Cotteridge Primary School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.4wardfutures.org.uk/news/funding-from-stfc-spark-award-for-the-what-are-things-made-of-w... |
| Description | Discover Materials - Woodcraft Folk |
| 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 | An evening session at Cambridge Road Methodist Church, Kings Heath, Birmingham for a local group of the Woodcraft Folk (https://woodcraft.org.uk/ ) in which we explored natural indicators (from red cabbage, beetroot and red onion) to see how they changed colour with acids (lemon juice and vinegar) and alkalis (washing up liquid and toothpaste) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials - Worcester STEAMFest - A one day public science festival at the Hive in Worcester |
| 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 | A drop in science festival at which we ran the chocolate impact tester, activities form the busking box such as ferrofluids, shape memory alloys, super hydrophobic leaves and UV colour changing beads |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discover Materials Ambassador 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 | Annual conference for outreach ambassadors.. A networking and training sessions for DM ambassadors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Discover Materials In2Science Summer Placements |
| 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 | Three 17 year olds school students visited the School of Metallurgy and Materials (University of Birmingham) for a week long work experience placement. They joined up with PhDs and postdocs to learn about different areas of materials science and did some hands on activities including making a loud speaker and designing their own key chains which they then 3D printed. They then worked with Chris Hamlett and Jon Wood to make a video on a materials Science topic of their choice - the video has been filmed and is currently being edited together |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discover Materials This Winter Webinar 12 December 2023 |
| 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 series of materials science talks about materials in space, hcosing the right material, the packing of baubles and the mechanical properties of chocolate. There was also a panel discusison about sustainability and careers in Materials Science and Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://discovermaterials.co.uk/event/discover-materials-this-winter-2023/ |
| Description | Discover the Future in Materials Intensive Industries - Digital Materials Passports | Online Workshop (Royce Sheffield) |
| 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 | Digital Materials Passports are a concept of collecting and sharing product data throughout its entire lifecycle. This opens the door to a sustainable future by revealing material compositions, recycling rates, and environmental impacts. It's a key step toward a circular economy. However, implementing this type of business and technological change can be difficult to achieve if organisations neglect the people, cultural and organisational impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/discover-the-future-of-materials-digital-materials-passports/ |
| 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 | ENGINEERING THE FUTURE CONFERENCE 28-29 March 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 Engineering the Future conference will be hosted by the School of Engineering and the Department of Materials on 28 and 29 March 2023. The conference gives you an opportunity to learn more about our recent and future research and our educational activities that are delivering the next generation of engineers. The event will tell you about how our work is impacting the world around us through our contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Join us to visit a range of our laboratory areas to learn more about our capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/engineering-the-future-conference-2023/ |
| 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 | FUTURE MATERIALS, MINERALS & MINING CONFERENCE 12 December 2023 | Conference |
| 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 | Sponsored by the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre and the Henry Royce Institute the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, is hosting this conference on Future Materials, Minerals & Mining. The conference is intended to be a forum for early career materials, minerals and mining scientists and engineers from across the UK to come together and present their research on the materials they are developing and working with, with the hope of improving presentation and poster skills, along with initiating collaboration between research groups, and between industry and academia. It is also a way of helping researchers and industry workers see how their work fits into the bigger picture of future materials, minerals and mining research and technology across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/future-materials-minerals-mining-conference/ |
| Description | Faraday Institution 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 | The conference theme for 2023 is "Driving towards sustainable electrification for the UK" with a programme curated to disseminate battery research and raise the visibility of scientific excellence in energy storage. Held across 3 days, it encompasses multiple parallel sessions, poster presentations, other development opportunities for early career researchers, an exhibition area, and much more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/faraday-institution-conference-2023/ |
| 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 | GLOBAL RESEARCH & INNOVATION IN PLASTICS SUSTAINABILITY - Mike Shaver speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Bringing together companies and individuals to highlight the best of the UK and select international activities will lead to plastics being less likely to reach landfills, end up incinerated, or become fugitive in the environment. We're delighted to invite you to GRIPS 2023 conference, which will again showcase Research and innovation from both the academic and industrial community that make polymers more sustainable. The event will provide a platform to help develop the commercial success of these developments and build links within the polymer/plastics supply chain to strengthen the offer to the UK and wider international actors in application sectors such as plastic packaging/FMCG, textiles, construction; legislation; agriculture; healthcare; net zero; marine plastics; chemical recycling' sustainable design; innovation opportunities in global markets; plastic packaging; and many more. With the forthcoming Plastics Packaging Tax, extended producer responsibility (EPR) and deposit return schemes being on the near horizon, the adoption at scale of the innovations that will have an impact in the UK and worldwide are of great importance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://sustainableplasticslive.co.uk/conference/ |
| 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 | Graphene Hackathon| University of Manchester |
| 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 Graphene Hackathon is a two day event hosted at the University of Manchester. Participants will design, prototype and pitch a product using graphene to win prizes in an intensive and collaborative environment. Participants will receive access to sponsored talks from members of the graphene research and innovation community and showcase research at the event's Science Fair. The Graphene Hackathon rethinks the traditional product development process and unlock the entrepreneur in everyone by providing a dynamic space for rapid learning, failure and innovation. The graphene community in Manchester is amongst the brightest in the world. The goal of the Graphene Hackathon is to maximise the impact it can have in real-world applications. By putting graphene inks in the hands of those who might never otherwise have the opportunity, Graphene Hackathon breaks skill silos, cuts R&D timescales and removes the conventional barriers to commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2023 |
| URL | https://www.graphenehackathon.com/ |
| Description | Graphene 23 - the 13th edition of Graphene Conference series - MECD, Manchester 27-30 June 2023 |
| 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 13th edition of Graphene Conference series, the largest European Event in Graphene and 2D Materials, will be organised in-person in Manchester (UK): June 27-30, 2023. Over the past editions, the Graphene Conference strengthened its position as the main in-person meeting point of the Graphene community Worldwide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/graphene-conference-2023/ |
| Description | Great Exhibition Road Festival, an Imperial public engagement event - Discover Materials |
| 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 | Hands on table top activities from the Discover Materials busking box and a workshop about corrosion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HENRY ROYCE INSTITUTE NATIONAL CONFERENCE 6-7 September 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our 2023 conference will be an opportunity to hear from expert speakers from academia, industry, government and research funding councils on the importance and impact of advanced materials against this evolving backdrop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/henry-royce-institute-national-conference-2023/ |
| 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 | HUBdate Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A live update on the Royce's activities and events to Royce members |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Hands on data surgery for XPS data - Analysing your XPS data 1 (Technical Skills) |
| 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 | Data analysis training course delivered by the XPS Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their XPS data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Hydrogen: Fundamentals and Materials Challenges CPD Short Course | Cranfield University 20-22 November 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 course is delivered over 3 days and is mostly in the form of lectures and lab activities. Group work is also used to enable discussions among the participants. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course. The course will be delivered by lecturers experienced in Hydrogen and related material challenges and will consist of lectures and lab experience to provide delegates with both theoretical and practical understanding of Hydrogen interaction with materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/hydrogen-fundamentals-and-materials-challenges/ |
| Description | Hydrogen: fundamentals and materials challenges -Technical Skills Course on hydrogen materials, the challenges that need to be overcome |
| 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 | Training content to explore the basics of materials for hydrogen generation, storage and end-use. Focuses on current challenges in the area, and potential solution to embrittlement, corrosion, permeation and corrosion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IET STEM Exhibition & First Lego League | Harrogate |
| 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 | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The global STEM competition that develops key skills for future careers, including coding, design and research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | INHALED PARTICLES AND NANOEH CONFERENCE 15-18 May 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 purpose of this joint meeting will be to bring together experts and early career researchers within the fields of occupational health and exposure, modelling, epidemiology and toxicology from academia, industry, and regulation to discuss the key aspects of the field, recent findings and how the discipline needs to move forward to answer the plethora of questions still being asked. A further key focus of this conference will be to assess the suitability and applicability of methods being utilised to answer such questions. The conference will be balanced with an integrative social schedule, as well as promoting early-career researcher development along with prizes and award lectures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/inhaled-particles-and-nanoeh-conference-2023/ |
| 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 Awards Ceremony |
| 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 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) have announced the launch of their 2023 IOM3 Awards and Prizes, with nominations open for the two brand new awards in collaboration with Royce that recognise and celebrate the achievements and contributions of technical professionals: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IOM3 Future Materials, Minerals & Mining Conference - Royce sponsored Student Engagement |
| 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 | Sponsorship and attendance at IOM3 Future Materials conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | IOM3 Young Person's Lecture Competition: Winner's Talk (In-person presentation) - Student Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk from the winner of the IOM3 YPLC about her research. As well as being an interesting talk in it's own right, it gives students at Royce an exemplar of how they might make stronger entries in future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iom3-young-persons-lecture-competition-winner-georgina-burgoyne-morri... |
| 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 | Impact Planning and Grant Writing workshop - Student Engagement |
| 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 | A workshop offered by Christopher Roberts of UoM that guides early-career researchers through the process of writing and applying for grants. This 3-hour session provided attendees with the background information they need to report the impact of their projects and how to put that messaging into a grant application or other relevant documents. There was also some one-to-one advice from Chris on the conclusion of the workshop as well as post-event support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Inkjet Printed Polymer Inclusions Can Result in Improved Mechanical Properties of Carbon Fibre Composites - Materials 4.0 hybrid seminar on inkjet printingg |
| 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 | Materials 4.0 hybrid research seminar on inkjet printing delivered by Patrick J Smith University of Sheffield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/materials-40-seminar-inkjet-printed-polymer-for-carbon-fibre-composit... |
| Description | Innovative Healthcare Showcase - Manchester - Ania Speaking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event looks to explore new approaches to novel medicine manufacture, optimise disease prediction, diagnosis, prevention and intervention, and identify gaps where innovation could be targeted to develop new solutions for the unmet healthcare problems faced today. The event will feature a range of speakers from both academia and industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Introduction to Intellectual Property: Shaped for Materials Science - 1-hour webinar that featured a display of the topic, along with a Q&A (Royce Student Engagement) |
| 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, Henry Shine and Neal Pollock, patent attorneys at Wilson Gunn, provide a beginner-friendly overview of the main intellectual property rights and concepts applicable to the field of materials science. The aim is to help viewers better understand and navigate the path to research commercialisation, through a description of real-world case studies to show how the theory was put into practice for previous materials science innovations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2023 |
| Description | Introduction to X-ray CT theory - NXCT |
| 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 | Workshop covering the basics of X-ray CT - Introduction to technical method |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Introduction to X-ray CT visualisation using Avizo - NXCT |
| 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 | Introduction to X-ray CT visualisation using Avizo. This course covers the fundamental principles of using Avizo software to analyse X-ray CT data. The course uses real X-ray CT data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Launch of Cambridge Battery Suite |
| 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 Battery Suite Opens at The University of Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Launch of Racial Equality in Nuclear Initiative | NNL |
| 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 | The aim of the launch event is to consult the nuclear industry on REiN and the path it aspires to take, and to host a roundtable discussion as how as a sector we can best improve the inclusion and representation of ethnic communities in nuclear. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Launch of the Advanced Materials Innovation Framework | Westminster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | At an Advanced Materials Showcase at the House of Commons in April 2023, Royce launched a Materials Innovation Strategy Framework consultation document - aimed at ensuring the UK has a world-leading position in rapidly expanding materials markets, substantially enhancing the value of some of the largest UK- based industries and ensuring materials science researchers are supported in commercialising their ground-breaking discoveries into game-changing products and services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/henry-royce-institute_last-week-at-an-advanced-materials-showcase-act... |
| Description | Let's Move to the Moon (UKSA Space Box) - Collection session - Discover Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Let's Move to the Moon collection session, a school KS3-4 visit at Joseph Leckie School (Walsall) that involved making posters about how the students would design a moon base given their learning during the space box activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Let's Move to the Moon (UKSA Space Box) - Collection session - Discover Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A Royce supported outreach schools KS3-4 visit at John Masefield High School and Sixth Form Centre that involved making posters about how the students would deign a moon base given their learning during the space box activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Let's Move to the Moon (UKSA Space Box) - Delivery session(Introduction to space box) - Discover Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A Schools KS3-4 visit at Denmark Road High School for Girls (Gloucester) that involved delivering an introduction to MSE talk, introducing the space box and helping the students carry out mission 0 (cracking the code to get into the box) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Let's Move to the Moon (UKSA Space Box) Home - Discover Materials (Home school activity session) |
| 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 | Working with BLAST (a charity set up to inspire people into STEM through Black Arts and Culture) a group of homeschoolers visited University of Birmingham to wokr though the activites in the 'Lets Move to the Moon' Space Box. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | M4QN Winter School - Royce Technical Skills Winter school and networking for M4QN |
| 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 | 4-day training event exploring career skills, training needs, road mapping and outreach activities within the field of materials for quantum technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | MATCelerate Zero Exhibition at the DBT Clean Tech Showcase |
| 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 | MATcelerate ZERO, which supported by the Henry Royce Institute, exhibited at the Department of Business and Trade (DBT) CleanTech Showcase event at the London Stock Exchange at the end of October 2023. |
| 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 | MPI Postgraduate Research Symposium on Ferrous Metalurgy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This research symposium is for students, academics, researchers and industry involved in materials, metals and process improvement. The symposium gives universities, researchers and businesses the opportunity to find out about the latest thinking on ferrous metallurgy. At the symposium PhD and EngD students will showcase their research with particular emphasis on the ferrous sector. Along with this will be keynote presentations from industry leaders, and an exhibition and poster display Royce Richard Dawidek Spoke at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Magic of Materials Summer School - Discover Materials |
| 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 three day summer school for 17 year olds from widening participation background from across the UK, hosted by St Paul's School (Hammersmith) and involved a mixture of lectures and workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Materials 4.0 - EconoMISER Data Curation Meeting (Short interactive workshop on data curation and open research practices) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | James Normansell delivered an interactive workshop for EconoMISER PI and Application Scientists on Data Curation, the Research Data Lifecycle, Open Research practices and tools to facilitate them |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Materials 4.0 - Software Carpentry (Version Control with Git and GitHub) |
| 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 | Workshop in digital research skills |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 Made Smarter - "People made Smarter" Webinar | Online - University of Sheffield |
| 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 | Hosted by the University of Sheffield's Management School, this event joins researchers from the Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University Management School to find out more about the important human factors to consider when implementing an inclusive and responsible Digital Change.Engaging presentations: Explore a Toolkit that helps organisations to manage the design, implementation and evaluation of an inclusive and responsible Digital Change Interactive session: Exchange best practices and experiences among participants Contribute your insights to help advance research and shape the future of this transformative concept in materials-intensive industries This workshop provides access to new opportunities and responsible methods of Digital Change. The insights gathered will be used to create a valuable online resource for organisations and shared with you on completion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/people-centred-transformation-digital-change-toolkit-iwp-digital-chan... |
| 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 | Metals: Pioneering Materials Exhibition - Public tour (Royce outreach activity) |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | General public visiting the exhibition at the Royce Building |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Metals: Pioneering Materials Exhibition - launch (Royce Outreach) |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce first tour for the general public to visit the Royce exhibition : Pioneering Materials, with support of AWE and Armourers and Brasiers' Gauntlet Trust. About 30 people, including PhD students and Research scientists were in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/royce-launches-first-public-exhibition-metals-pioneering-materials-with... |
| Description | Metals: Pioneering Materials Exhibition Launch | Royce Hub , University of Manchester |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Metals: Pioneering Materials launch event invited the project's supporters, alongside other members of the Advanced Materials community from academia and industry, to get a first look at the history of metals assembled for the display |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/royce-launches-first-public-exhibition-metals-pioneering-materials-with... |
| Description | Metals: Pioneering Materials Exhibition at the Armourers & Brasier's Company Cambridge Forum - Royce Outreach |
| 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 first outreach exhibition transported to Cambridge in support of the A&BR forum. The Royce Exhibition was displayed during the A&B Forum day in Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/metals-pioneering-materials-exhibit-displayed-at-the-armourers-and-bras... |
| Description | Metals: Pioneering Materials Exhibition at the University of Cambridge - Royce Outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce first outreach exhibition transported to Cambridge in support of the event. The Royce Exhibition was displayed during at the Dep of Materials in Cambridge for 2 weeks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Metals: Pioneering Materials - General public visiting the exhibition at the Royce Building |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce's first public exhibition about the history of metals. The exhibition was open during the building's opening hours and during specific evening guided tours The Metals: Pioneering Materials launch event invited the project's supporters, alongside other members of the Advanced Materials community from academia and industry, to get a first look at the history of metals assembled for the display. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | NPL Performance and Properties of Advanced Coatings Seminar |
| 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 | This seminar discusses this potential and discusses the properties and performance of many different types of advanced coatings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NPL Post-Graduate Institute Conference - Student Engagement (Sponsorship and panel discussion participation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Student conference and networking event. Tom participated in a careers panel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NXCT - Intro to Avizo -- Software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
| 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 | 2 days Software training on "Introduction to X-ray CT visualisation using Avizo" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NXCT - Intro to CT theory - Introduction to technical method |
| 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 | Workshop covering the basics of X-ray CT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NXCT - Introduction to CT theory |
| 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 | NXCT workshop covering the basics of X-ray CT - Introduction to technical method |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NXCT - Introduction to X-ray CT using Avizo (Software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data) |
| 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 | Introduction to X-ray CT visualisation using, a software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Opening of Royce Thin Film Laboratory | Imperial College London |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Opening of Royce Thin Film Laboratory in Imperial College, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Opening of the Royce Materials for Energy Centre, Oxford |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Opening of the Royce Materials for Energy Centre, Oxford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Operando Approaches for Advanced Materials Development | University of Cambridge |
| 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 one-day symposium focusing on the latest advances in the use of operando techniques related to novel energy and device materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Other Scientific Training - Dream 3D workshop |
| 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 | NXCT DIL - Dream 3D workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Other Scientific Training - FIJI workshop |
| 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 | NXCT DIL - FIJI workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Particle analysis in AVIZO & producing video - NXCT (Software training on Avizo for particle analysis) |
| 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 | Software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PhD Student Research Sandpit - Royce Student Engagement |
| 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 | PhD Student Research Sandpit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Photonics 2023 Conference | University of Mancheste |
| 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 | Phononics 2023 is the sixth conference dedicated to analysis and manipulation of phonons (vibrations in solids), connecting researchers interested in phononic crystals, acoustic, elastic, nanophononic, and thermal metamaterials, metasurfaces, wave propagation in periodic structures, nano-scale phonon transport, optomechanics and phonon coupling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Pint of Science - (Royce supported/outreach event at Imperial) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce funded 2 nights of science talks in London in collaboration with the Imperial College |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Pint of Science Manchester Launch Event: Just a Sip |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A launch event - a little 'sip of science' - ahead of the main Pint of Science Festival taking place from the 22nd - 24th May 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 AMBIENT CLUSTER TOOL'S ENERGY AND LIGHT SYMPOSIUM IV 26 October 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 annual symposium "Energy & Light" is focused around the research done using the Ambient Cluster and related developments. Come to the symposium to learn about a variety of cutting edge materials research from industry and academia. As well as the Cambridge University research work we have industry talks on:- The UK Semiconductor Infrastructure initiative, Building blocks for graphene based electronics, The Future of Photovoltaics: How Spatial ALD Will Impact The World and PV and the Adventures in Protected Agriculture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/roycecambridge-ambient-cluster-tools-energy-and-light-symposium-iv/ |
| 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 | Readily3D Demonstration Day - 3D bioprinting demonstration event (Technical Skills training) |
| 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 | Technology demonstration of a new and innovative 3D bioprinter. Run with aim of understanding equipment capabilities and potential user interest in the platform. |
| 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 Cambridge Ambient Cluster Tool Energy and Light Symposium |
| 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 symposium "Energy & Light" is focused around the research done using the Ambient Cluster and related developments. Participants learn about a variety of cutting edge materials research from industry and academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Cambridge Battery Suite Opening and Symposium |
| 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 | This symposium marks the opening of the Royce Battery Suite. This suite of equipment is available on open access for the manufacturing and processing of battery materials. The Royce Battery Suite will uniquely allow exploration of scalable manufacturing and processing of battery materials, for the translation of novel energy materials into application, bridging the gap between research and industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Cambridge Battery Suite Opening and Symposium |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 researchers, academics, students and industry representatives attended the launch of the new Royce Battery Suite and toured the facilities at the University of Cambridge's Maxwell Centre. The opening was commemorated with a Symposium attended by over 100 prominent battery academics, spinouts, and industry from around the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Cambridge Physical Vapour Deposition and Characterisation Facility Launch | University of Cambridge |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event marks the launch of the Royce at the University of Cambridge Physical Vapour Deposition and Characterisation Facility - part of one of the UK-wide Henry Royce Institute open-access technology platforms. This facility includes equipment for device fabrication and characterisation which will be demonstrated during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Hub Visit - University of Loughborough -- Royce Student Engagement |
| 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 | A group of architechture students from Loughborough University visited the Hub for a tour of the labs and a talk on the building. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Hydrogen Event (ICP) |
| 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 Henry Royce Institute at the University of Oxford hosted the very first Royce Hydrogen Conference at St Anne's College in November. The event brought together experts from industry and academia who have been involved in projects supported by Royce, particularly the Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP), Materials Challenge Accelerator Programme (MCAP) projects and investments in experimental capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Royce Outreach - Green Together - Science Festival (Science Festival at Manchester Central Library) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce stand at the Manchester Central Library for the Green Together Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Royce Outreach - Science and Industry Museum - Half Term Festival (Science Festival at Manchester Science and Industry Museum) |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royce stand at the Science and Industry Museum for the half term festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Royce Oxford Opening - Materials Centre for Energy Research |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A new state-of-the-art facility, the Centre for Energy Materials Research (CEMR), was officially launched 09 May 2023 by the University of Oxford's Department of Materials. This will provide world-class capabilities to support the development of the next-generation materials urgently required to address the climate crisis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Student Summit: Data Science and Critical Components - Student Engagement (Workshop on data science) |
| 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 | 2-day event featuring students from the SINDRI and Doing More With Less research grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Technical Skills - Cleanroom Practical Skills (Best practice in cleanroom fabrication skills) |
| 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 | 5-day training course to develop practical skills and gain experience in cleanroom use for semiconductor fabrication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Royce Technical Skills Bruker UK SPM/AFM Users Meeting 2024 |
| 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 | 2-day user meeting for UK SPM/AFM community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Royce Training at Sheffield: Soft Skills for Researchers |
| 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 event aims to provide students with some crucial career skills that may not be encountered as part of the structured learning on a research-based PhD. The talks and activities will be around "soft-skills", such as networking and communicating science to non-specialist audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Training: Ion Beam Irradiation and Characterisation - Best Practice - Training course |
| 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 | This course explores procedures and techniques for the planning, preparation, and running of ion irradiation and characterisation experiments. The content will go beyond standard use cases familiar to most researchers and will introduce examples and processes that can help unlock the full potential of these approaches. Ultimately, participants will gain a deeper knowledge of best practice in this research area and provide useful guides on how to fully use these techniques available through Royce partners and the wider UK nuclear research community. This course is suitable for researchers working in both academia and industry that want to develop their knowledge on ion beam irradiation experiments and materials characterisation. Researchers seeking to refine their existing protocols and understand current best practice would also be welcome to attend and contribute to the discourse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-ion-beam-irradiation-and-characterisation-best-practic... |
| Description | Royce Training: Thin Film Deposition | University of Leeds |
| 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 | This course will introduce thin-film deposition and analytical techniques for characterising thin films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Training: Thin Film Deposition | University of Leeds |
| 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 | This course will introduce thin-film deposition and analytical techniques for characterising thin films. The content explores physical vapour deposition techniques, and will cover deposition parameters, structural characterisation and the electrical behaviour of a simple device. Practical training will cover basic lab skills for working with the ultra-high-vacuum environments needed for high quality thin film growth. Through use of the Royce Deposition System participants will gain hands-on experience of, sputtering, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Each participant will grow and characterise their own samples, including taking measurements of film thickness and surface morphology. The course will also include a short session on cleanroom fabrication to make a microscale wire from a thin film. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Undergraduate Internship Scheme |
| 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 | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce supports researchers across the UK to host an undergraduate intern within their organisation over the summer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Undergraduate Internship Scheme Webinar: PhD Pathways - Student Engagement |
| 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 | Webinar on routes to take through academia and industry given by Royce CTO Tony Horner. Tony gave a brief background on his career in industry and research, and answered questions from the students on the transition from academia to industry, the merits of pursuing a PhD, and what careers are like in a large organisation like Rolls-Royce, to name a few. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Undergraduate Internship Virtual Conference - Student Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A chance for the interns on summer projects to share their research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce-Tata Steel MOU Ceremony 12 December 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 | Tata Steel has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials, Manchester, UK, to set up a Centre for Innovation in Advanced Materials. The two entities are joining forces on a collaborative research and development programme which will see Tata Steel investing £10 million over four years. The Centre for Innovation will be set up at the Institute's headquarters at the University of Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/tata-steel-the-henry-royce-institute-sign-mou-to-set-up-a-centre-for-in... |
| 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 | Salters Festival of Chemistry - 2-days Discover Materials Teacher CPD session at the Salters' Festival of Chemistry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A 2-days Teacher CPD workshop session at the Salters' Festival of Chemistry at Aston University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Salters Festival of Chemistry - Discover Materials (Teacher CPD session at the Salters' Festival of Chemistry) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Teacher CPD session at the Salters' Festival of Chemistry held at Queen's University, Belfast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Salters Festival of Chemistry - Discover Materials (Teacher CPD session at the Salters' Festival of Chemistry) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave secondary school teachers an overview of MSE and worked with them on the demonstrations contained in bags that were given to them at the session. (containing smart materials, a clip on microscope lens and other items to use in class). This session was part of the Salters' Institute 'Festival of Chemistry' at which Year 10 students visit a university's chemistry labs and the teacher get one hour of CPD. The teachers liked the links to the school curriculum and some said that they will definitely use the demonstrations in class. The workshop was held at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Sci Fest (Family Day) - Discover Materials |
| 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 | Family Day of Sci Fest (a public science festival at University of Wolverhampton) fo. We ran the chocolate impact tester and Discover Materials busking box. In addition we distributed CoCoElectro Bags (a RSC funded project). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sci Fest (Schools Day) - Discover Materials |
| 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 | Schools Day of Sci fest (a public science festival at University of Wolverhampton). We ran the chocolate impact tester and Discover Materials busking box. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Sip of Science - Science talks (Royce 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 | First Pint of Science event hosted at the Royce Hub Building to provide a space for researchers and members of the public alike to come together, be curious, and chat about research in a relaxed environment outside of mysterious laboratories or daunting dark lecture theatres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/pint-of-science-manchester-launch-event-sip-of-science |
| Description | Software Carpentry (Shell, Git, Python) | Online workshop - Royce data curation team |
| 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 Data Curation team will host a 5-day workshop aimed at materials science researchers new to these languages, and those looking for a refresher; designed to give you confidence in using shell, Git and GitHub, and Python. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/software-carpentry-shell-git-python/ |
| 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 | Stand Out Skills Webinar: My Journey Through Materials Science Outreach W/Chris Hamlett | Online |
| 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 | Stand Out Skills is a webinar series for early career researchers working in materials science disciplines. In this talk Dr Chris Hamlett, National Outreach Officer for Discover Materials, will discuss his pathway through materials science, from a less than perfect start as an undergrad, through to discovering materials science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stand Out Skills: Building an Academic Website - Student Engagement |
| 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 | A 1-hour webinar that featured a display of the topic, along with a Q&A. In this talk, Dr Lucy Whalley (Northumbria University) walked students through how to set up a free, static (non-interactive) website using Github Pages and highlighted some effective examples from materials science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stand Out Skills: Introduction to Standards (1-hour webinar that featured a display of the topic, along with a Q&A) - Royce Student Engagement |
| 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 session, Emma Glass provides an overview of the role of the national standards body, highlighting key standards to be aware of and how to get involved in standardisation. The aim of the session is to provide an introductory taster to standards, imparting the knowledge and tools needed for future innovation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stand Out Skills: Outreach - Royce Student Engagement |
| 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 | Stand Out Skills: Outreach |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Supplier Workshop: Proposed Royce Led DSTL Centre for Excellence for Materials In Extreme Environments | Manchester |
| 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 | Supplier Workshop for the proposed Royce Led DSTL Centre for Excellence for Materials In Extreme Environments held at Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Symposium on Fusion Engineering 2023 | UKAEA, Oxford |
| 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 | The IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) is a biennial conference with a focus on fusion excellence. SOFE2023 will be held in Oxford and it is only the second time that it has taken place outside of the US, the first time it has been in Europe. The event will be hosted by UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and aims to bring the global fusion community together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/symposium-on-fusion-engineering-2023-oxford/ |
| Description | TERMIS EU Chapter Meeting, Manchester - Exhibition and Stand |
| 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 TERMIS EU conference is the leading event for the dissemination of the latest research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, offering researchers, clinicians and industry an ideal opportunity to present and discuss their most recent findings, developments and challenges in the field. The theme of the meeting in Manchester will be 'Broadening the Targets and Approaches for Regenerative Medicine' and will reflect state-of-the-art international science including the latest breakthroughs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/termis-eu-chapter-meeting-2023/ |
| 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 | TMS conference March 2023 |
| 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 Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technical Skills - Advanced EBSD for alloys (Training workshop n EBSD analysis) |
| 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 | Workshop covering advanced techniques in EBSD for researchers working with alloy characterisation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Technical Skills - Analysing your AFM data (Hands on data surgery for AFM data) |
| 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 | Data analysis training course delivered by the AFM Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their AFM data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Technical Skills - Analysing your XPS data 3 - Hands on data surgery for XPS data |
| 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 | Data analysis training course delivered by the XPS Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their XPS data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Technical Skills - Introduction to EDS analysis for alloys (Training workshop on EDS analysis) |
| 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 | Workshop covering introductory techniques in EDS for researchers working with alloy characterisation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/royce-training-introduction-to-eds-analysis-for-alloys-tickets-77298717... |
| Description | Technical Skills - Introduction to Quenching Dilatometry for Alloys (Training workshop on dilatometry) |
| 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 | Presentations and data analysis practicals for dilatometry experiments related to alloy investigation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royce-training-analysing-your-xps-data-february-2024-tickets-76386075... |
| 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 Workshop - Fibre Technologies Platform Showcase (Showcase event on Royce kit and capabilities) |
| 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 | Presentations on research and industry capability in fibre technologies |
| 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 Bragg Exchange | Esther Simon Building, University of Leeds 23-24 January 24 |
| 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 Bragg Exchange 2024 offers a platform for all to learn, connect, and contribute to the future of materials science here at the University of Leeds. Students, academics, researchers - all are welcome to register and get involved! For the first time ever, the Bragg Exchange is now taking place over two exciting days! With presentations and poster sessions covering the breadth of the Bragg Centre's materials science research themes, this year's Bragg Exchange is not to be missed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/bragg-exchange-2024/ |
| 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 | The SMI Hub's Sustainability Workshop: It's Not Easy Being Green |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The SMI Hub's Sustainability Workshop: It's Not Easy Being Green, will provide impartial advice and expertise around plastics use and plastics circularity, which will support businesses to use plastics more sustainably and efficiently now, and in the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/its-not-easy-being-green/ |
| Description | Tools for Research Data Management (Webinar on research data management tools) - Materials 4.0 |
| 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 | Webinar on research data management tools delivered by James Normansell |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | TransFIRE Foundation Industries Forum 16-17 October 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 | An interactive programme of events to share insights and learning across foundation industries to support progression towards transformation. The forum includes a series of workshops with the opportunity for you to meet industry experts and leading academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/foundation-industry-forum/ |
| 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 Colloids Conference | ACC Liverpool 17-19 July 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 | UK Colloids 2023 is the fourth colloid science conference in this series. It continues to be jointly organised by the RSC's Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI's Colloid and Surface Science Group and will provide a perfect opportunity for UK and international researchers interested in colloid and interface science to meet, present and discuss issues related to current developments in this field. Please refer to the official UK Colloids web site under Useful links for the official and definitive programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/uk-colloids-2023/ |
| Description | UK Metals Expo | Ilford |
| 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 | UK Metals Expo is the only event that brings together the entire metals supply chain From primary metal manufacture to supply chain management, processing metals, fabrication, surface coatings and recycling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UK Metals Expo, Birmingham |
| 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 | UK Metals Expo is the only event that brings together the entire metals supply chain From primary metal manufacture to supply chain management, processing metals, fabrication, surface coatings and recycling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | UKAEA RadIAEM Opening and Workshop on Characterisation of Radiation Damage |
| 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 | This opening event, hosted by UKAEA's Materials Research Facility (MRF), will celebrate the EPSRC-NNUF-funded Radioactive In situ Analytical Electron Microscope dedicated for ß/? active materials (RadIAEM) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UKRI Hydrogen Supply Chain Showcase 22nd June 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 | - Network with a community of UK hydrogen supply chain technology businesses and end users in manufacturing, transport, energy and agriculture industries. - Discover the latest hydrogen funding opportunities and meet energy investors that will enable you to unlock collaborative new business opportunities to increase Hydrogen supply chain activities and become a leading force in the UK Hydrogen economy. - Join the Hydrogen Supply Chain Directory and discover the 190+ organisations across the UK involved in various stages of the hydrogen supply chain. - Listen to and engage with hydrogen specialist speakers throughout the day and explore our hydrogen technology exhibition. - Find out about the success stories of the Innovate UK funded businesses and their plans for the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/hydrogen-supply-chain-showcase/ |
| 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 Community Festival - Royce Outreach at the Science Festival |
| 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 | A full day of outreach activities at the Royce Hub Building in collaboration with multiple partenrs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Uranium Science Conference 2023 Royce Hub, University of Manchester |
| 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 | An international conference for interdisciplinary discussion, exciting uranium-centred presentations, and the opportunity for our academic community to meet and collaborate online. The forefront of modern uranium research will be showcased through a mixed program of plenary speakers, presentations, and poster sessions. We look forward to seeing familiar faces and to meeting new members of our growing network of uranium science researchers at our next edition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/uranium-science-conference-2023/ |
| Description | Version Control with Git and GitHUB Training Course | Royce Hub Building, University of Manchester |
| 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 | Version control is an essential skill for a modern researcher. It allows you to work with others, develop code faster, and track changes to your own code and even writing. This course is aimed at those who have no or little experience of version control, providing a hands-on introduction to version control using Git |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | WORLD TITANIUM CONFERENCE 2023 Edinburgh International Conference Centre - 12 - 16 June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The long-standing international conference provides an unrivalled forum over 5 days for the world's titanium community to meet, present and discuss the latest technological developments in titanium science and technology: from the latest extraction technologies and new modelling approaches through to new and exciting applications of the Wonder Metal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/world-titanium-conference-2023/ |
| 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/ |
| Description | exhibiting at Advanced Materials Show, Birmingham - 28-29 June 2023 |
| 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 | Exhibiting at Advanced Materials Show 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/advanced-materials-show-2023/ |
| Description | presenting at RECYCLING & WASTE MANAGEMENT EXPO 13-14 September 23 - Mike Shaver talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Resource & Waste Management Expo (RWM) is the UK's premier event for professionals working in the recycling, resource, waste, and broader environmental services industry. Formerly known as RWM & Letsrecycle Live, RWM offers an unparalleled platform to connect with like-minded professionals, learn about the latest industry trends, and drive positive environmental change through sustainable resource management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/recycling-waste-management-expo-2023/ |