The Cockcroft Institute

November 13, 2017

New doctoral training centre ASHE launched at CI

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, Healthcare and Environment (ASHE) project has a number of PhD…

November 6, 2017

150 years on Marie Curie is still inspiring young scientists

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 fearlessly. It's because of her legacy that people like me…

November 3, 2017

Physicists take their science to the visually impaired

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 is a first-of-its kind project and includes specially designed activities,…

November 3, 2017

New Big Data Science training initiative led by Cockcroft expert

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 of £10million investment from the Science and Technology Facilities Council…

October 25, 2017

Cockcroft Member awarded Fellowship of The American Physical Society

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 The American Physical Society (APS) for seminal contributions to the…

October 16, 2017

Cockcroft 120 Challenge

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 conduct their own high voltage experiment and to create a…

October 9, 2017

Cockcroft Student wins best student prize at European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

[caption id="attachment_4948" align="alignleft" width="225"] Alisa Healy wins best student poster at EAAC 2017.[/caption] 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…

October 6, 2017

Revealed: How to build a particle accelerator in a salad bowl

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 easy-to-build device employs the electrostatic potential created by a Van…

September 22, 2017

Erasmus students visit Daresbury Laboratory

A delegation of 40 sixth-form international students and teachers visited Daresbury Laboratory on Tuesday 19th September. The children were participating in an Erasmus project titled “Moving forward in Hi Tech” organised between schools in Turkey, Spain, UK, Italy and Holland.…