Group News

Kick Start Your Career - and how to get a job in the downturn

students

Kick Start Your Career is an annual event organised by the Liverpool and North West Group to enable students of chemistry, chemical engineering and related subjects to meet successful business and industry personnel from the area and talk about careers.

What’s in my Stuff?

phone smashed

'What’s In My Stuff?' , by Dr Hywel Jones, taking place later in the year on 13 October 2012, looks at consumer tech in a totally new way.

Liverpool Student Prize-Giving Evening

Liverpool prizewinners

The annual student prize-giving event took place on 10 November 2011 at the Portico Library in Central Manchester.

Bringing chemistry to life

Martyn Poliakoff

The Liverpool and North West Group and the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre jointly organised a public lecture that aimed to raise the profile of science in society.

Board of Trustees update

Jack Melling

When your Board of Trustees last met on 16 November 2011, the key priority was to agree the rolling business plan for 2012-14 and the budget to implement this.

Biofpr Special issue: Bioenergy and Water

Water use to grow and process biomass feedstocks for fuels has recently emerged as an important controversy. In a world where several countries already face water stress – and where over 70% of global freshwater use takes place in the agricultural sector – bioenergy development might present considerable challenges, from the perspective of water quantity as well as water quality.

20th International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics

Tim Stevenson

The International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) is regarded the highlight of the ferroelectrics calendar, and was this year combined with the International Symposium on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy on Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials (PFM).

42nd National Organic Symposium

Dixit Parmar

Leverhulme Travel Bursar Dixit Parmar sent this report from the 42nd National Organic Symposium held in Princeton, New Jersey in June 2011.

Susan Greenfield delivers Hurter Lecture in Liverpool

Susan Greenfield and Trevor Rhodes

This year's Hurter Lecture, organised by the Liverpool and North West Group, was presented by Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE entitled 'The chemistry of consciousness – a neuroscientist's view of a philosopher's problem'.

Kick start your career

Trevor Rhodes

On Thursday, 3 February 2011, over 150 students from universities in Liverpool, Bangor, Manchester and other North West educational establishments came to the Chemistry Department at the University of Manchester, to attend 'Kick-start your career'

Interview with Dr Trevor Rhodes

Trevor Rhodes

Dr Rhodes joined SCI in 2007 and has worked for British Steel and the Atomic Energy Authority.

Mike Pitts – driven to volunteer

Mike Pitts

Dr Mike Pitts currently works for Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network, managing activities in sustainability and biobased products.

Kickstart your career 2010

students

The Liverpool and North West careers event continues to go from strength to strength with over 150 students attending this year's Kickstart Your Career.

Academic Excellence: 21st SCI Postgraduate Symposia 2010

Kevin Jones,Jennie Hickin with organizers Prof Tom Simpson FRS, Prof Chris Willis and Dr Steven Howard

The SCI Fine Chemicals Group held its 21st annual 'Graduate Symposia for Novel Organic Chemistry', in early 2010, giving final year PhD students the opportunity to present their latest research.

Seligman Fellow Eliana Fissore

Eliana Fissore

Seligman Fellow Eliana Fissore is currently in North Wales working on a project in the Centre for Water Soluble Polymers at Glyndwr University under the supervision of Prof Peter A Williams.

The World Student Conference on Particle Technology

Ei Leen Chan

Richardson bursar Ei Leen Chan reports from the Netherlands

College of Scholars Presentation, Manchester

College of Scholars

The SCI College of Scholars held its second regional presentations meeting at Manchester University in a joint event with their Chemical Engineering Deptartment and the SCI Liverpool & North West Regional Interest Group.

Roger Perry wins Chemistry for Industry Award

Roger Perry

Roger Perry, managing director of Brotherton Esseco Ltd in Wakefield, has won the 2010 Chemistry for Industry Award.

SCI Stephanie Burns Interview

Stephanie Burns

Stephanie Burns, CEO and Chairman of Dow Corning and new Honorary President of SCI, talks about her experience leading a corporation where innovation is paramount. She also discusses SCI's role in driving knowledge transference in the chemical industry, CSR initiatives and innovative ideas for the future of SCI involving community engagement and mentoring of young scientists.

An education on science and gender

SCI Award winner Sue Halliday – spreading the word at a Saturday Science Club

Sue talks about her experiences with teaching science to boys and girls, and particularly about her efforts to encourage girls into the field.

Get Involved

networking

SCI is always happy to welcome new volunteers and members to the Society.

Best practice for groups

group members

On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September 2008, SCI ran two ‘workshop and best practice sharing’ events, open to all Treasurers, Secretaries and Chairs of Regional Interest (RIG) and Technical Interest Groups (TIG).

SCI’s online forums

Joanna Pegum

The main aim of SCI is to bring members together and an online forum can help us do this through the web.

Committee workshop and best practice sharing

forum attendees

On Monday, 28 September 2009, SCI will be hosting a one-day ‘Volunteer Workshop and Best Practice’ day for the Honorary Chairmen, Secretaries and Treasurers of all its UK-based Interest Groups.

GM crops: part of the solution

Peter Urwin Howard Atkinson

The University of Huddersfield hosted a lecture and open discussion that aimed to provide the audience with a detailed overview of genetically modified crops.

Chinese UK Regional Group 15th annual conference, Liverpool, 4 October 2008

Chinese conference

The 15th Joint Annual Conference of The Society of Chemical Industry - Chinese UK Group (SCI-CS) and The Chinese Society of Chemical Science and Technology in the UK (CSCST-UK), was held at the University of Liverpool’s Department of Chemistry.

SCI’s Rebekah Beevers talks young chemists

Rebekah Beevers

Lighting a bunsen burner sparked Rekekah's love of chemistry

Pitching your ideas workshop

Liverpool waterfront

The workshop was held in conjunction with Chemicals Northwest and the Royal Society of Chemistry at the Liverpool Innovation Park and was delivered by Will Sudworth of InspiringOutcomes.

Would you believe… we put a man on the moon?

Jerry Stone (right) convinces the audience about the authenticity of the first moon landing

This talk gave a stimulating and provocative look at claims that humans did not in fact go to the moon, and that the whole momentous occasion was actually manufactured at a huge film studio in the United States

Liverpool and North West Regional Group looks to the future

Catalyst Science Discovery Centre

Inspiring the next generation of scientists was a major theme that came through when SCI members came together at the inaugural Members' Forum last November

Brain disease: a stroke of bad luck

Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS

On 6 March 2008, the Liverpool and North West Regional Group held their prestigious Leverhulme Lecture at the chemistry department of the University of Liverpool

SCI sponsorship of Catalyst Saturday Science Club

Mike Pitts and Sue Halliday

The Catalyst Saturday Science Club for young people aged 11 - 16 meets on the second Saturday of each month in Widnes, Cheshire

An even bigger prize giving!

Liverpool and North West prize giving 2008

The event took place at the Portico Library and Gallery in Mosley Street, central Manchester on Thursday, 15 November 2008

What a chemist needs to know about patents

Peter Elliot

Intellectual Property (IP) is one of the major outputs of all R&D organisations, and yet for most scientists it remains an area shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding

Energy from Waste Conference Papers

Pylons

Energy from Waste was held at Lancaster Environment Centre on 18 June 2009, and organised by the Environment and Process Engineering Groups

Malcolm Faers discusses €1.7 million InForm research project

Molecule

Dr Malcolm Faers, SCI’s Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group Secretary and formulation scientist at Bayer CropScience, is currently involved in an exciting new research project, funded by the EU and led by the University of Manchester, which will encourage the transfer of ideas and knowledge between top scientists around the world.

Dr Caroline Cordery — 2005 Lampitt Medal recipient

Caroline Cordery

Dr Caroline Cordery is to receive the 2005 Lampitt Medal, it was announced by the SCI Awards Committee.

John Beacham honoured for outstanding contribution to the Society

John Beacham

Dr John Beacham has been awarded the Lampitt Medal by the Society. The medal was presented by Sandy Gray, who has since been elected chair of SCI’s board of trustees, at a celebratory reception and dinner held in Warrington, Cheshire, UK in June 2007.