The Cockcroft Institute has recently been awarded funding for a new doctoral training centre from STFC which had its first kick-off meeting on the 8th November. The Accelerators for Security,…
Twice Nobel Prize winner celebrated on Marie Curie Day 7th November 2017 “I think Marie Skłodowska-Curie represents courage; she was able to overcome all these challenges and to pursue something…
The Cockcroft Institute is delivering a brand-new exhibit to give blind and partially sighted people throughout the UK the opportunity to experience the amazing science of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Tactile Collider…
The University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University have been awarded £1million for a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in data intensive science (LIVDAT). The award is part…
The QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, and its international partners are going to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Marie Skłodowska–Curie, an outstanding researcher and woman inspiring generations…
Dr William Bertsche, lecturer with the Accelerator Physics group of the University of Manchester School of Physics and Astronomy and the Cockcroft Institute, has just been awarded a Fellowship of…
Earlier in the year we announced the Cockcroft 120 Challenge – a science communication competition to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft. We asked schools to…
Alisa Healy, a 3rd year PhD student from Lancaster University/Cockcroft recently won one of three prizes for best student poster at the 3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop in Elba…
One of the most popular experiments performed during the Workshops on Accelerator Science for teenagers organised by the Quasar Group in Daresbury last year was the “salad bowl accelerator”. This…