Alumni profile: Abigail Seager, BBC Systems Engineer
November 10, 2019
Featured alumnus: Abigail Seager, MSci Physics (2014) was interviewed earlier this year by WISE, the campaign for greater gender balance in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) about her career as a Systems Engineer at the BBC. Abigail Seager
Brain Imaging on the BBC: Dementia Choir
May 10, 2019
Members of the Medical Imaging group from the School of Physics and Astronomy recently featured in a BBC documentary entitled “Our Dementia Choir“. In this guest post, Dr. Lauren Gascoyne and Dr. Rebecca Dewey describe the science behind the deep connection between music and our brains. The two-part show is available on demand from BBC …
Shivani Dave redefines the kilogram on Radio 4
November 18, 2018
Delighted to hear recent graduate Shivani Dave (2017 BSc, Physics) on Radio 4 explaining the redefinition of the kilogram earlier this week. No longer tied to a single lump of metal sitting in a vault in Paris, the new definition adopted on Friday at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Paris redefines our …