Water Testing Water Hygiene Testing in Physics will take place week commencing 11th November 2019 from 9am daily. Two Lancaster University engineers will require access to kitchens and shared bathrooms to test hot water temperatures.  The engineers will not test every kitchen/bathroom just a sample from different locations within the building.  This brief survey…

  Generator Test On the 14 of December the new generator that’s down Physics AV Will be tested. This will involve a start-up of the generator, power to the Physics building being switched off. The Department will then run for approx. 20 minutes on the generator before being switched back onto mains. This date is…

  Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships Lancaster University is inviting applications from early career researchers seeking support for their application to the Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Fellowship scheme 2020. The Funding Opportunity The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme supports early career researchers, with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic…

  SUstainability Ideas Conference 2019 Your Students’ Union is hosting a Sustainability Ideas Conference on Wednesday 30th October, 17:30-19:00 in LICA.This will provide an opportunity for Students’ Union societies, students and staff to come together, share ideas and plan collaborative initiatives to shape the Students’ Union environmental sustainability agenda for 2019/2020. The event will begin with with refreshments provided by Green Lancaster…

  Professor Walter Fairbairn Many people will know of Walter’s sad death on August 18th , having only recently moved house from Lancaster.  Walter was a founder member of the department in 1964, a keen Scottish country dancer, and was for several years before retirement the University’s senior pro-VC.  He was one of the most…

  Alliance of World Scientists A group of scientists mainly in the US, headed by a Distinguished Professor of Ecology at Oregon State University, have formed an “Alliance of world scientists” in order to give scientists an opportunity to participate in a co-ordinated, interdisciplinary response to the climate emergency.  There’s a letter that you can…

  Climate emergency campaign at Lancaster University – how you can help As we approach Sept 20th, a day of global action on climate change, the LU Climate Emergency Working group wishes to propagate the following message. Climate emergency campaign at Lancaster University – how you can help 1.      Sign this petition (using your @lancaster.ac.uk…

  Elsevier Micro Grants Our partner Elsevier is launching a “micro grants” scheme to support research and science at Lancaster. They will fund up to £500 for any sort of event which involves more the 25 researchers (staff/students). Elsevier want to do a short presentation at the start of your event but otherwise you are…

  Intern safety inductions Please can all supervisors ensure their interns and other summer visitors attend a safety briefing. The next one is Monday 12th August 2pm in B24. Shonah Ion   Portable Appliance Testing Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) will be commencing in the Physics Building and IsoLab from Monday 9th September. This year all…

  Facilities Works Facilities has informed us that this week work will begin to replace the roof on the plant room at the bottom of Physics Avenue. There will be some noise and disruption especially to those whose work space overlook this area. A liquid coating will be applied towards the end of the works…