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Join a Cross-Departmental Focus Group on Assessment & Feedback

We’re continuing our efforts to enhance assessment and feedback across the Faculty of Natural Sciences and need your input! Join a (cross-)departmental focus group to share your thoughts on exams, coursework, and feedback – your insights will help shape improvements for you and future students.

If you're interested, please register and provide your availability using the link below. Once we’ve received your responses, we’ll send you an invite early next week.

🔗 Register here

You’ll only need to attend one focus group, but selecting all available time slots will help with scheduling. As a thank-you, all participants will receive a lunch voucher.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Ioanna Papatsouma (i.papatsouma@imperial.ac.uk).

Best wishes,
FoNS Team (Ioanna, Maria, Nick, Allison, Olivia, Egor)

Student Shapers Project : £25 Amazon voucher and free pizza for an hour of your time!

Dear fellow students,

We are a group of students who’d love to meet you and talk about ways Imperial can support you further in developing the communication skills you need at Imperial and beyond! Have your say in how CfAE can support you with this.

· An Imperial undergraduate or taught postgraduate student

· From the department of Natural Sciences, Medicine or Engineering

· Have something to share!

We'd love to hear from you!

Bari Bari, undergraduate (Medicine)

Adi Behura, undergraduate (Medicine

Stephanie Cui, undergraduate (Chemical Engineering)

Yuxin Guo, undergraduate (Chemistry)

StudentShapers in partnership with CfAE

Key Updates From ICU

Request from Department SSC meetings

We are trying to get a better overview of feedback gathered at Department SSC meetings, so we can keep track of issues raised by reps and key themes that we can work with the University on at faculty level. It would be great if you could share your minutes with myself so I can have a look at them, any questions please let me know.

Student Representation workshop of Imperial staff

The ICU Representation Team staff are delivering a workshop for Imperial staff to attend on Wednesday 30^th April, 1pm-4pm.

The aim of this is to share our current approach to facilitating student representation and provide an opportunity for Imperial staff who work with student reps to share feedback on what impact they feel this makes in practice.

Full event description: Find out about our current work priorities, and the training and support we provide for Undergraduate and Postgraduate student representatives. We understand that in practice, staff and student representatives may face varied challenges when working in collaboration on improving the student experience at Imperial. This session will also be an opportunity to feedback to us on these challenges and input your ideas on how to develop our rep training & support further. We will also be providing a light lunch.

We are asking staff to sign up so we can account for lunch (staff should be able to log in on the top right with their Imperial shortcode login and password).

Let me know if you have any questions, thank you for your ongoing support.

Charlotte Baker (she/her) | Representation Coordinator

imperialcollegeunion.org

Year 3 and 4

2025 is the Internation year of quantum science and technology, and Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology (QuEST) is planning a wide range of activities.

International Year of Quantum 2025 | Research groups | Imperial College London

QuEST is looking for enthusiastic students to develop few “Quantum Basics” demos for an event on 14th of April as well as for the Great Exhibition Road Festival (7 - 8 June).

If you have any ideas on how to explain the basics of quantum physics / how to make it more approachable to primary and secondary school students, and general population, please email me. We will do our best to support you in any way.

Best wishes,

Ana

New 100 seat space opens at the Abdus Salam Library

Library Services are pleased to announce the opening of a new Group Study Space on level 4 of the Abdus Salam Library. The area features over 100 study spaces in an array of different types of furniture such as 2, 4 and 6-seater meeting pods, standing desks and moveable furniture.

Whilst the main study furniture is bespoke and brand-new, we were very happy to be able to re-use a number of reclaimed whiteboards, a printer and a table and benches in the ‘tea-point’.

The ‘tea-point’ also includes a hot water boiler and cold vending machines.

Later in the year we will be adding to this space by opening two bookable group study rooms on the same floor.

We look forward to welcoming you to the space soon and please send your feedback to library@imperial.ac.uk.

Advancing Physics Student Ambassadors

Events

Career Opportunities

Online Mentoring

Dear Student,

I am looking for someone willing to do online mentoring/tutoring for three A level physics students. Initially, there will be 10 one-hour online sessions (one per week) with all three A level students together, and you will be paid the standard rate (starting from £14.88).

The students, and their North London school, would be grateful for any kind of mentoring and help with physics questions/ problems as they had no permanent physics teacher last academic year. The school would organise Teams meetings, and one of their staff would be pro forma logged in into the meeting, which makes everything simpler from the safeguarding point of view.

As a former A level physics teacher, I would be able to help you with any questions on how to approach A level questions/problems, how to structure the sessions or with any other problem you might encounter.

If you are interested or have any other question, please send me an email. Ana Soldner-Rembold: a.soldner-rembold@imperial.ac.uk

PhD and PGT Opportunities

PhD Positions in Medical Physics and Radiopharmaceutical Sciences at the German Cancer Research Center

PhD positions in experimental condensed matter physics

We have 5 fully-funded PhD Studentships available to work in experimental studies of quantum materials within the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials (www.cdqm.uk) at the University of St Andrews. Work covers materials synthesis and advanced spectroscopic, thermodynamic and transport studies of quantum materials, thin films and devices, and we are looking for motivated candidates to work in or across these areas.

The PhD students are aligned with EPSRC- and Leverhulme-funded research projects, and cover stipend at the standard UK rate, as well as tuition fees. Positions are available until filled, and we would be grateful if you could encourage any potential candidates to apply.

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact cdqm@st-andrews.ac.uk, or submit an application via https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pgr/home.htm

Regards,

Prof Peter Wahl,

Prof Phil King,

Prof Stephen Lee,

Dr Andreas Rost

Health and Safety

Fire evacuation assembly points for Blackett & Huxley

Dear all,

Thank you for the feedback provided following the triggering of the fire alarm in the Blackett Building last Tuesday. Please see below for the assembly points that should be used when evacuating from Blackett (points A or B) and Huxley (points A or C). You must use the nearest escape route which may not be the same route you normally use. For example, in Blackett there are the east and west stairwells which connect floors 0-7, in addition to the main stairwell which connects all floors. Always use the break glass to release exit doors and keep roads clear in case emergency vehicles need access.

Further information on fire safety can be found here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/estates-facilities/health-and-safety/fire-safety/