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Applications are now open for 8-12 week placement projects in industry or research Radiation Detection Doctoral Network: PhD scholarships for Industrial collaborative PhD projects Who knows better than Postgraduate Research students what the sticky points are in their doctoral learning? Learn from PGRs themselves what they wish theyd known when they started their PhD! Know more.. Welcome to SEPnet. Whether you know us as the South East Physics Network, or the consortium of nine world-clas* universities that’s GRADnet is the largest Physics post graduate research school in England with a vision to train the world’s best physicists. Funding that supports students to take part in industry-based placements. SEPnet Outreach & Public Engagement has one primary vision: to bring the excitement, innovation and knowledge of physics to students,. DAPHNE JACKSON FELLOW IGNITES PAS*ION FOR ASTROPHYSICS AMONGST CHILDREN IN CARE. Daphne Jackson Fellow Dr Carolyn Devereux, based at the University of Hertfordshire, has led a programme of events to engage children in Carolyn, a foster carer herself, organised bespoke observatory open days for children in care and their foster carers, and young people One event attracted 120 attendees new to astronomy, from toddlers and te*nagers to ad*lts, with activities such as planetarium shows, lab The programme is designed to accommodate the possibility of challenging behaviour, address traditionally low attendance rates among this audience and respond to specific learning needs, such as autism. Carolyn who is based within the School of Physics, Astronomy and Maths, Centre for Astrophysics Research, at the University of Hertfordshire, worked with the council-run Hertfordshire Virtual School, which brings together children who are looked after. At a Hertfordshire Virtual School residential event for Year 10 children in care, Carolyn organised a ‘Mission to Mars’ session to help motivate the children for their science GCSE. A school educational adviser said the children’s’ “thirst for science was