The Student-led Conferences took place on Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at International Student's House in London W1. It was attended by over 40 delegates from SEPnet universities; Imperial College London; King's College London; Nottingham University and University College London.

The two conferences this year were:

Quantum Field Theory, Geometry and Gravity and New Frontiers: Exploring the Diversity of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research within GRADnet

Thank you to all our speakers: Prof Neil Lambert, King's College London, Prof Daniel Waldram, Imperial College London who presented at the Quantum Field Theory, Geometry and Gravity Conference and Dr Cynthia Ho, Queen Mary University of London, Prof Benjamin Joachim, University College London and Dr Eugene Vasiliev, University of Surrey who presented at the New Frontiers Conference.

Thank you to the student organisers: Julian Kupka, Jessica Copeland, Shree Hari Mittal, Dhairya Kataria at University of Hertfordshire; Tancredi Schettini Gherardini , Mitchell Woolley, at Queen Mary University of London, Pietro Capuozzo, Benjamin Suzzoni at University of Southampton and Ann Malz at Royal Holloway University of London.

Participants were grateful for the opportunity to attend the conferences and be able to present their research to their peers.

GRADnet Turning Science into Business was held on Wednesday, 19 February 2025. 

This workshop was designed for anyone thinking about how to commercialise one’s research; or anyone with an idea who wanted to get started or just wanted to get insights that will help transition from academia into a business environment...

Thank you to Julia Shalet, julia@productdoctor.co.uk for delivering this course once again.  Julia has worked with SEPnet postgraduate researchers for the past eight years.

“A pleasure to again deliver Turning Science into Business for Cristobel and her SEPnet Physics PhD students. Once again, this group demonstrate how well they can make the transition from a science world to a business world, particularly with the emotional intelligence required to make sure we properly understand our customers' problems before we start building solutions. 

Our participants gave us really high scores for the day and some great comments:

·        "interactive, engaging & well-executed;

·         I developed new skills, tools and techniques;

·        a lovely crash course that built on our skills taking them into a commercial environment;

·        taught us important concepts and gave us tools and techniques to takeaway and use again."

Looking forward to future collaborations with ProductDoctor!