Professional Groups
News from the Women in Physics Group
The Women In Physics Group has selected the delegation to attend the 3rd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, in Seoul, South Korea, October 2008. Click here for more details.
Libby Heaney from the University of Leeds has been awarded the HSBC/Institute of Physics Very Early Career Award.
The 2008 Very Early Career Award £1000 prize was presented to Libby Heaney at a special student event on the afternoon of Wednesday 20 February. Libby is rewarded for both her academic work and the efforts she has made to inspire others into physics. The runner-up, Joanna Lee of the National Physical Laboratories, also received a prize.
See IOP News for more information and the press release.
The HSBC/Institute of Physics Very Early Career Award is made annually to a woman who is within three years of completing her undergraduate degree in physics and who is either working as a physicist or is engaged in postgraduate study. The award is judged by the IOP’s Women in Physics Group in recognition of the winner’s contribution to physics and the activities they have undertaken to inspire others to take an interest in physics.
Do you have an interest in science outreach? Keep checking the Women in Physics Group website for details about how to apply for the 2009 award.
The Women in Physics Group are delighted to congratulate Jocelyn Bell Burnell on becoming a Dame, and Ann Marks (previous Chair of the Women in Physics Group) on her MBE.
Young female physicist, Liz Ainsbury, receives prize for leukaemia
Young physicist Liz Ainsbury has been rewarded by HSBC and Institute of Physics for her research in magnetic field physics. She has studied whether there is a link between extremely low frequency magnetic fields and health effects such as childhood leukaemia.
Physicists and Primary Schools Website
A website providing materials to help physicists with outreach activities in primary schools.
Launched on 4 April 2006 at the Institute of Physics.
Women in University Physics Departments: Institute of Physics Site Visits Report (Feb 2006)
An Institute Report on the University Site Visits Scheme - a series of panel visits to university physics departments offering feedback and advice to departments on gender friendliness.
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