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Celebrating 175 Years of Our Community RSCNEWS FEBRUARY 2016 www.rsc.org Celebrating 175 years of our community How is chemistry funded in the UK? p10 Crossing boundaries – linking academia and industry p13 Celebrating 175 years of our community Pictured clockwise from top left are some of the many notable presidents we’ve had throughout our history: Thomas Graham, first president of the Chemical Society, 1841-1843 and 1845-1847 (founder member). Sir Edward Frankland, president of the Chemical Society, 1871-1873 and first president of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1877-1880. Sir Ewart Jones, president of the Chemical Society, 1964-1966, president of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1970-1972 and first president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1980-1982. Dr Alfred Spinks, final president of the Chemical Society, 1979-1980. Professor Sir Richard Norman, final president of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1978-1980 and president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1984-1986. Professor Lesley Yellowlees, first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-2014, with Professor Dominic Tildesley, our current president. There’s a wealth of fascinating information available to you as a member from throughout our history – just search for historical collection on our website. WEBSITE Find all the latest news at www.rsc.org/news/ Contents FEBRUARY 2016 Editor: Edwin Silvester Design and production: REGULARS Vivienne Brar 7 4 Contact us: Snapshot RSC News editorial office News and updates from around Thomas Graham House Science Park, Milton Road the community Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK 6 Tel: +44 (0)1223 432294 One to one Email: [email protected] How to use your 175 minutes for chemistry? Burlington House, Piccadilly London W1J 0BA, UK 7 Tel: +44 (0)20 7437 8656 Profile Meet the inspirational Egyptian professor, connecting scientists and decision makers @RSC_Newsroom 8 12 Opinion facebook.com/RoyalSocietyofChemistry Crossing boundaries – developing links Photography: between academia and industry Cover © Royal Society of Chemistry / Terry Moore Left © Royal Society of Chemistry FEATURES Cover: Bestselling author 8 Bill Bryson, one of our inspirational 175th anniversary 175 faces of chemistry. exhibition Highlighting the stories of inspirational individuals – our 175 faces of chemistry 10 10 The UK funding landscape Rich Walker takes you through the complications of chemistry funding DIARY 14 Conferences Upcoming meetings and deadlines 15 12 Events Your guide to events by region and section 19 Notices Elections, reminders, results, awards and © Royal Society of Chemistry 2016 celebrating 80 years of membership! Registered charity number 207890 21 Admissions A warm welcome to our community Snapshot A look at the latest news from around the world INBRIEF Our Global Experiment Chemists’ Community heads for the stars Fund This year we are calling on schools, As part of our 175th anniversary we want to We told you last year that we were community groups, and science clubs open up this year’s Global Experiment to the reviewing our benevolent fund to around the world to take part in the Royal largest number of participants yet. ensure it continues to be relevant for Society of Chemistry’s global experiment – Collaborating with thousands of students our modern community. For many Mission: Starlight. from around the world, pupils can conduct people we spoke to, the name was seen Introduced by British astronaut Tim Peake, this experiment at home or in the classroom, as old-fashioned, and it didn’t represent your mission is to investigate materials that then post their data and add a picture to our the non-financial support we offer. block or limit UV light using UV colour- website to see how their results compare From now on it will be called the changing beads. with others around the world. Chemists’ Community Fund, reflecting Mission: Starlight consists of four standalone Check out the website at http://rsc.li/ the increased scope to helping those experiments. They have been designed to mission-starlight (the site will be live from in our community who are at risk of challenge all ages and abilities, with all the 4 February 2016). becoming in poverty. resources being readily sourced and easily You may recall from December’s RSC affordable. News that we have already introduced some new services to alleviate this risk through legal advice, counselling support and an intensive career programme. Look out for more details on what else we’re planning in future editions of RSC News. Approving new courses for teachers Our education and accreditation teams have started a new joint collaborative project to formally recognise chemistry Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) courses in England, with Approved status. The aim is to address the needs of the community and apply a form of quality assurance to this aspect of teacher training, which is otherwise lacking. The first submission for this new project was from the University of East London. Members of both teams visited UEL in New Year’s Honours 2016 November along with assessors, with Congratulations to those in our community who have been recognised the view of formally approving their two in the New Year’s Honours list for 2016. SKE courses; an 8 week and 24 week course. The assessors recommended CBE both courses for approval and this Professor Catherine (Cait) Elizabeth Professor Paul O’Brien CBE BSc PhD DSc was validated by the committee in MacPhee CBE BSc PhD FRSC CChem FRSC FLSW FRS December. Professor of Biological Physics, Professor of Inorganic Materials Chemistry, These are the first chemistry SKE University of Edinburgh University of Manchester courses that have been approved in Joined as a Member in 2008. Became Joined as a graduate in 1980. Became the UK, with UEL the first of three a Fellow in 2012. a Fellow in 1993. institutions that we plan to visit during the pilot of this project. We plan to finish the Professor Peter John Matthews pilot in September 2016, after which we CBE DSc CChem FRSC OBE will roll out the approval process Chair – Natural Resources, Wales. Dr William Barton OBE MA FRSC more widely. Joined as a Graduate in 1969. Became Chief Executive Officer – WillB Consulting. a Fellow in 2009. Became a Fellow in 2006. 4 RSC NEWS FEBRUARY 2016 New elements complete the INBRIEF Snapshot 7th row of the periodic table Early careers researchers take their work to Parliament One of our Council members, Professor Polly “You slam light nuclei into each other and then On 7 March, early-stage researchers from Arnold of Edinburgh University, was quoted track the decay of the radioactive superheavy A look at the latest news from around the world across the country will be heading to in the Telegraph and the Guardian discussing elements that you form. They only last a tiny Parliament to present their research at SET the recent discovery of four new elements amount of time, fractions of seconds”. for Britain, an annual poster competition by scientists in Japan, Russia and America. Now begins the difficult task of choosing aimed at engaging MPs with current Our news and media team also arranged for names for the new elements…. Responsibility science, engineering and mathematics her to appear on Radio 4’S PM programme, falls to the International Union of Pure and research in the UK. discussing the discovery at length with a Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and they have Along with other learned societies and fascinated Eddie Mair. already received petitions to name them in commercial sponsors, we are helping The newly discovered elements are honour of such luminaries as best-selling to sponsor the event, which is a great numbered 113, 115, 117 and 118 and they author Terry Pratchett and – as the new opportunity for those invited to raise their complete the 7th row of the periodic table. entries are all heavy metals – Lemmy, front profile at Westminster and for MPs to see Polly explained in the Telegraph that: “The man of rock legends Motörhead. what scientists in their constituencies reason scientists have only just made them is We’ll bring you news of IUPAC’s decision in have been working on. because they are so difficult to make. a future edition of RSC News. The competition is open to researchers © ROYAL SOCIETY CREATION / MPP IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY © ROYAL in both academia and industry, and returners and those starting a second career are encouraged. The presenters will be judged not only on scientific merit but on their enthusiasm and ability to get their concepts across to a lay audience. Winners in five categories will be presented with cash prizes, and the overall winner will receive the Westminster Medal, awarded in memory of the late Dr Eric Wharton, who provided the inspiration for the first event in 1997. Last year’s winner in the Chemistry category, Yuval Elani, claimed the gold medal for his research on the development of artificial cells that mimic biological ones for medicinal and drug delivery applications. “This was a different experience from scientific conferences,” he said, “It will encourage me to try to engage more with non-scientists and engage people with some of the great science that is happening in the UK”. Look out for an announcement of the winners in our April edition of RSC News. © JOHN DEEHAN Workers education association partnership The World Museum in Liverpool was the results of our Public Attitudes to Chemistry venue for the launch of our new adult study, as well as research that shows that education project on 15 January. The parents’ attitudes are a key factor in children’s Workers Education Association have received career choices.” a £50,000 grant from our Outreach Fund This year the courses are being piloted in the to develop a chemistry curriculum for their North West of England, along with courses learners.
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