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The Institute of Physics is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland, with an active role in promoting co-operation in physics around the world.
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 20h
We welcome the government’s vision for reform in post-16 education - but much more detail is needed on implementation, funding, and ensuring new qualifications don’t become lower-status options.

🔗 Read our full response here: www.iop.org/about/news/i...
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 22h
Congratulations to @christinaastin.bsky.social for winning the Phillips Award for outstanding leadership for over 30 years in widening participation in physics, especially for women and girls, through innovative education, outreach and mentoring initiatives with national and international impact. 👏
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 23h
Congratulations to Dawn Watson for winning the Phillips Award for dedication to diversity and inclusion in the nuclear industry, developing and running a gender-inclusive mentoring scheme, and making women in physics events accessible to those across the UK and Ireland. 👏 #IOPAwards25
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Congratulations to Mariea Murphy (Coláiste Naomh Mhuire, St Mary’s College Naas) for winning the Teacher of Physics Award for 32 years of passionate advocacy for physics, much of which in all-girls schools. 👏

👉 View the #IOPAwards25 winners: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2025-iop-award-winners
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Join us online for a special lecture with Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh where she’ll explore the transformative role of Quantum & Nonlinear Optics, and reflect on 100 years of quantum mechanics and its impact on emerging tech.

🗓 22 October
⏰ 3pm to 4.30pm
🌐 Online

👉 www.iop.org/events/homi-...
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Congratulations to Colin Oates (Kinross High School) for winning the Teacher of Physics Award for consistently raising aspirations and maintaining a high-level of attainment in physics in the local area.👏

👉 View the #IOPAwards25 winners: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2025-iop-award-winners
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Congratulations to Susan Mighall (Rugby High School) for winning the Teacher of Physics Award for work in growing the number of girls taking A-level physics in school and in the wider Midlands through supporting the professional development of other physics teachers. 👏 #IOPAwards25
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Congratulations to Kerry Colyer (The Elton High School) for winning the Teacher of Physics Award for providing opportunities for all students and exceptional professional development support to teachers of physics in North-West England. 👏

👉 https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2025-iop-award-winners
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Congratulations to Arabi Karteepan (Croydon High School GDST) for winning the Teacher of Physics Award for tireless efforts to inspire students through personalised learning methods and interactive engagement with scientific projects. 👏

👉 View the #IOPAwards25 winners: www.iop.org/about/awards...
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 1d
Congratulations to Aurora Gutiérrez Sosa (University of Liverpool Maths School) for winning the Teacher of Physics Award for transformative work in shaping the teaching of physics to students from all backgrounds in Liverpool. 👏

👉 View the #IOPAwards25 winners here: www.iop.org/about/awards...
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 4d
Congratulations to Dr Raj Pandya @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for winning the Henry Moseley Medal & Prize for outstanding contributions to the understanding of coupled charge & structural dynamics in organic & inorganic nanomaterials, including the development of new enabling spectroscopic tools. 👏
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 4d
Congratulations to Dr Ana-Maria Raclariu @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for winning the James Clerk Maxwell Medal & Prize for several groundbreaking contributions to (3+1)-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes. 👏

🔗 Full citation: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2025-iop-award-winners
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 4d
Congrats to Dr James Lees @jamesdoesscience.bsky.social @york.ac.uk for winning the Mary Somerville Medal & Prize for helping to improve the effectiveness of outreach activities, the founding and running of the IOP Communicators Conference, and leading important conversations on a national scale. 👏
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 4d
Congratulations to Dr Lok Yiu Wu @unibirmingham.bsky.social for winning the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal & Prize for her outstanding contributions to the development of a novel magnetic radical filter device, and for her ongoing support of women and under-represented groups in physics. 👏
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Delta.g @delta-g.bsky.social · 9d
We’re proud to share that three members of Delta.g’s technical team, Andrew Lamb, Benjamin Adams, and Jonathan Winch have been awarded the 2025 @instituteofphysics.bsky.social Clifford Paterson Medal & Prize.
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Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 8d
📣Researchers from our @nustem.bsky.social
outreach group are celebrating after winning a prestigious @instituteofphysics.bsky.social
award recognising their work with children and young people across the North East and beyond. 🥇

#STEM #outreach #NorthumbriaUniversity

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Northumbria University STEM outreach project wins Institute of Physics award
Researchers from an outreach group at Northumbria University are celebrating after winning a prestigious 2025 Institute of Physics (IOP) award recognising their work with children and young people acr...
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 4d
Congrats to Dr Andrew Lamb, Dr Benjamin Adams & Jonathan Winch @delta-g.bsky.social for winning the Clifford Paterson Medal & Prize for the realisation of the first commercialised quantum sensor of gravity gradients under commercial contract & demonstrating its relevance to transport applications.👏
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
📢 We’re hiring a People and Policy Partner (Maternity Cover)!

Lead on HR policies and processes, support employee relations, and make a real impact at IOP.

📅 Applications close 29 October
🔗 https://bit.ly/4n4fO2c
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congrats to Prof. Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen @sheffielduni.bsky.social for winning the Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal & Prize for outstanding contribution to solar theory over and innovative approaches and leadership for ground-based solar instrumentation with application to space weather. 👏
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congrats to Prof Mark Dennis @unibirmingham.bsky.social for winning the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal & Prize for world leading work in developing the understanding of structured light, & detailed collaboration with experimentalists.
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congratulations to QuanTour @tu-dortmund.de for winning the Lise Meitner Medal & Prize for innovative public engagement across the UK and Europe through the QuanTour project, featuring a traveling quantum light source and offering live insights into the work of physicists. 👏 #IOPAwards25
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congrats to Prof. Samuel Stranks @cam.ac.uk for winning the Nevill Mott Medal & Prize for outstanding contributions to the understanding and development of emerging semiconductor materials. 👏

Read the full citation & explore the winners: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2025-iop-award-winners
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congratulations to Professor Jim Wild @sheffielduni.bsky.social for winning the Peter Mansfield Medal & Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of magnetic resonance imaging; specifically in lung imaging using hyperpolarised gas.👏 #IOPAwards25
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congratulations to Professor Ard Louis @oxfordphysics.bsky.social for winning the Sam Edwards Medal & Prize for pioneering the development of novel mathematical and numerical models that have contributed to our understanding of soft matter and biological physics across length scales. 👏
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Institute of Physics @iop.org · 5d
Congratulations to Professor Ifor Samuel @uniofstandrews.bsky.social for winning the Thomas Young Medal & Prize for his internationally leading contributions to organic light-emitting diodes, organic lasers and their applications.👏 #IOPAwards25
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